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IanG wrote on 10/9/2004, 2:47 AM
OK, let's have a quick look at the work flow, it's something like:-
edit video, output to mpeg2 file, author DVD, output to VOB (and ifo) file.

Assuming you're not using comercial, encrypted VOB files, you should be able to rename them as .mpg and reauthor them.

Ian G.

safari_tim wrote on 10/11/2004, 11:32 AM
Thanks Ian.

Nothing comecial here. Just curious how it all works.

I have some existing VOB's that I would like to make a nice DVD menu out of using the archtitect program.

So, a VOB (like the ones we make ie. not comerical encrypted), are just mpeg2's renamed to VOB?

Thanks for the info.

gogiants wrote on 10/12/2004, 3:18 PM
I tried just renaming the VOB to .mpg. I opened it in Windows Media Player and it played the movie, but with a lot of horizontal striping, enough to make the file unusable.

I also tried using DVD Decrypter to extract from the burned DVD, and the same thing happened.

I created the VOBs in question using DVD Architect Studio version 2. In case it matters, I let DVD AS do the rendering to MPEG-2 from some AVI files.

Anyone else seeing this?

Don't know if it matters, but I happen to be using Windows Media Player version 7 on an older machine.
lukeksk wrote on 10/25/2004, 8:17 AM
I successfully extracted a DVD using DVD Decrypter, renamed the VOB to .mpg. The .mpg played ok in Windows Media Player with sound, through rather soft. However, when I imported the .mpg into MS4, place the content on the video track, and then played the video, there was NO sound at all.

Have I missed out something? How do I get the sound from the VOB to .mpg to play in MS4?

IanG wrote on 10/25/2004, 10:12 AM
I'm guessing the sound's AC-3, which MS can't handle. Have a play with DVD Shrink and see if you can leave just a stereo track.

Ian G.