VOB Files Support in DVDA2

vduong wrote on 10/15/2004, 4:33 AM

I was wondering if DVDA2 support VOB files at all. I have a whole bunch of Dolby Digital, DTS, and THX trailers plus music video (with 2 audio track) that I would like to make into one DVD with all of DVDA2 glory features. This will determine if I should buy Vegas 5 and DVDA2 or not.

In case you don't know, VOB files are basically the video (MPEG 2) and audio tracks put into one single file. I do a lot of music stuff that do not need to separate the video and audio portion...one single file is a lot easier to manage when you have thousands.

Any help would greatly apprecate it! Thank you.

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bStro wrote on 10/15/2004, 8:00 AM

I was wondering if DVDA2 support VOB files at all.

Sort of. It'll handle the video portion okay. And if the audio is MPEG, then you can probably get by (DVDA will decode it, separate it, and re-encode it to AC3 (Dolby Digital) or PCM, whichever you choose. If the audio is AC3, you'll have to use some program to demux it. (Vegas+DVD has an AC3 encoder, but not an AC3 decoder.) Don't ask me why DVDA can't just leave the audio where it is...I don't know enough about this stuff to tell you. Let's just say that it prefers that the audio be separate from the video before it prepares the final files.

You can forget about DTS audio altogether. No decoder or encoder (suits me just fine...this package is expensive enough for my taste, who knows how much it woudl cost to put DTS support in).

Rob

rontvs wrote on 10/15/2004, 9:44 PM

Vegas 5 and DVDA2 don't support (legal reasons maybe?) any multiplexed AC-3 audio on MPEG-2 video without a lot work. For occasions when I need excellent VOB support I use TMPGEnc DVD Author even though the program has limited menu flexibility it will do the job nicely.

Ron

johnmeyer wrote on 10/16/2004, 6:33 AM

Not much can be done directly in DVDA. Here are some links that explain a little about VOBs in Vegas:

VOB files

straight path for reauthoring

Extracting Video from a DVD image