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Newbie Forum Discuss, Help joining VOB files, converting VOB files, etc at Starters forum; I'm trying to convert some DVDs so I can load them up to my Tivo. I have 2 problems right now. The first problem is that I'm trying to use DVD Fab Platinum and its splitting the DVD into VOB files 1 GB in size. The destination folder isn't anything

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gvegastiger (New on Forum)
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Posted: 05-05-2008
I'm trying to convert some DVDs so I can load them up to my Tivo. I have 2 problems right now.

The first problem is that I'm trying to use DVD Fab Platinum and its splitting the DVD into VOB files 1 GB in size. The destination folder isn't anything special and DVD Shrink doesn't split them up so I know its not the type of folder. does anyone know DVD Fab well enough to tell me what I"m doing wrong?

The second problem is that the movies play fine on my computer, but skip when they get to my Tivo. All I'm doing is changing the VOB extension to mpg. I"m not doing any encoding. Just ripping, transferring to my Mac from my PC and loading them to my Tivo. Anyone on here know anything about this?>
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gvegastiger (New on Forum)
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So I got an answer to problem numero uno. Anyone have any idea on problem number 2? I can't get the occassional skips to stop and its really bothersome.
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Skipping is most likely caused by burning to fast or else the quality of media used
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gvegastiger (New on Forum)
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I'm not burning, im just ripping a movie that I own. Is there some sort of "cleaning" I need to do on the VOB before I try to upload it to my Tivo?
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gvegastiger (New on Forum)
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Posted: 09-05-2008
I'm new and have been trying for 10 days now to find some combination of products (freeware) that will decrypt my personal DVDs, rip them onto my harddrive into 1 VOB or mpeg2 file. DVDShrink doesn't work for me bc it isn't supported anymore and it makes the movies skip when they play on my Tivo.

I've used DVDFab HD Decryptor but it rips into multiple VOBs which is fine, but now I can't find anything to join the VOBs and then convert them to mpeg2. Please help, my wife is going to give birth to our first child any day now and if I don't figure this out soon, its going to be a long time before I get to work on it again.
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Posted: 09-05-2008
Please let's keep the problems and solutions in just one place. Two threads merged.

DVD Decrypter (different from DVDFab HD Decryptor) will join the VOB files together into one, after which you can rename to '.mpg'. However you might need another more up-to-date decryption program such as AnyDVD running in the background.

Set DVD Decrypter to IFO mode, then go to the options page. Select the IFO tab and change 'File splitting' to 'None'. Exit the options and try ripping.
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gvegastiger (New on Forum)
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Posted: 09-05-2008
Thanks, I'll give it a shot. I've tried DVD Decryptor in the past but I'm trying to stay away from unsupported projects. This could work, however it also means I'll have to buy AnyDVD.

Is there a good joining mechanism out there imkidd?
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imkidd57 (Senior Moderator & Editor)
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Posted: 09-05-2008
Try MPEG Streamclip (you may also need the 'Quicktime Alternative' with the MPEG2 plugin)

Search for both in the Tools section of Videohelp.com
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Posted: 09-05-2008
Once you have the vobs decrypted and on the hard drive, a simple tool for joining them together into one big mpeg file is Vob2Mpg.
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/VOB2MPG

It is free and very easy to use.
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Yeah Vob2MPG (kerry beat me to the punch) or VOBMerge to join vob's to one big VOB......
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Yeah Vob2MPG (kerry beat me to the punch) or VOBMerge to join vob's to one big VOB......
I have been using vobmerge but Im getting a weird issue. Every movie I join is showing total run times of 7 seconds or 24 minutes...which wouldn't be a problem except...it makes fast forward and rewinding on my PS3 go crazy. It will skip like all over the movie. Any idea how I could get the correct time to show?
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Does it play fine from PC? Are you streaming to the PS3 and if so, with what? I use TVersity and lately trying out PS3 Media Server,it seems to be working good thus far,for me...


http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/
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[quote=t0nee1;2194811]Does it play fine from PC? Are you streaming to the PS3 and if so, with what? I use TVersity and lately trying out PS3 Media Server,it seems to be working good thus far,for me...


http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/[/quote]

Yes it will play perfectyl as long as you play it straight through. I do stream via Tversity and I also save movies directly to my PS3 hard drive(500GB) and the files will play perfectly as long as you never need to fast forward or rewind the movie. If you do need to FF or rewind then the crazy jumping all over the movie(Death Race and Chronicles Of Narnia-Prince Caspian) have both done this to me.
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