Vob file joins

[Anonymous]

Hi, i'm new on here and am in the middle of a VideoReDo 21-day evaluation. In general, Great tool!

However, ran into some problems joining videostreams from two DVDs created on a Philips DVDR. Both dvds were created on the dvdr at the highest bitrate provided (one hour mode), and all other parameters the same. The content of each dvd was transferred to my computer as two combined vob files using DvdDecrypter (one large vob file representing each dvd). I tried the command line method of joining these two resulting vobs-

copy /b vob1 + vob2 combinedvob

and they seemed to combine successfully into an approx. 6 gb vob. Then loaded this 6 gb vob into VideoReDo:

The entire combined file seemed to load ok. However, at the join point there were a couple of scratchy audio noises and the video jerked, then proceeded to play ok. I tried cutting a few seconds of this area out of the video, then tried to save it. However, only part (approx. 1/3) of the combined file saved.

Then tried running the QuickStreamFix on the combined vob, and the utility seemed to stop after saving approx. 2 or 2 1/2gb. On successive tries with various edits, couldn't get it to go any further.

In a nutshell, the combined vob file loads into VideoReDo ok, but you can't get VideoReDo to do anything with it.

Any suggestions, or will this work better with your upcoming release? Thanks

[DanR]

The "copy /b" option should only be used if the VOB files are from the same DVD. That being said, I'm not sure why the QuickStream didn't work. Perhaps if you email us the log file (as an attachment) that will tell us something.

I would suggest that you do the following:

1) Try using the VideoReDo joiner to join the files. That is the appropriate to piece together material from seperate sources.

2) Since these are VOB files, if the joiner has problems, you can try running QuickStream Fix on both files seperately before bringing them into the joiner.

[Anonymous]

It Worked! Even the second segment audio stayed in sync. (After relooking it over last night, the combined file from the two dvd's was actually more than 7 gb.) In this case, didn't even have to run QuickStreamFix or use the joiner. Must say, VideoReDo is certainly a compliant and non-complaining tool...quite refreshing