a program like auto gk, but does not compress movie?

[minofifa]

hello
i'm looking for a program similar to auto gk that can take a Video_ts file and the.vob files within it and turn them into a video file (for editing later). I would use auto gk but i don't want to compress it to divx or xvid. any suggestions?

 

[MustISO]

What format do you want the files in?

 

[minofifa]

i dont' know exactly. my borther in law has this home movie dvd that he wan'ts to edit, but the files are in .vob format in a video_ts folder on the dvd. i can't think of how to get the video in to a video editor such as windows movie maker. any ideas? i though i woudl have to rip the movie and get it in mpeg-2 format or something but i'm not sure. like i said i would use auto dk, but i don't think the divx format is supported in movie maker.

any ideas?

 

[boran]

I'd think you might want to find a DVD to Mpeg 2 transcripter. it should even be possible without recoding since DVD is essentially Mpeg 2 but certain elements are external and scattered and those need to be cut and recombined. another option would be to use a lossless codec. but you'll end up with bigger files than the input I think. uncompressed is near impossible, because it would eat up massive amounts of HD.

 

[Evander]

There are probably freeware solutions for this, but I use tmpgenc dvd easy pack:
http://www.tmpg-inc.com/product/deps.html
I don't think there is a trial version of that suite, so you could use this instead (the non watered-down version):
http://www.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/te3xp.html

You fire it up, select DVD as source, click next, and it will ask if you want to rip the dvd first or read directly from the disc. If you click "rip" it will rip it to the hard drive as a single .mpg file, not vobs.

Or, this SHOULD work but I haven't tried it. Use dvd decrypter-> mode=ifo -> settings: ifo mode : file splitting: none
It should rip you a single large vob. Just rename it whatever.mpg and you'll probably be OK

 

[Continuity27]

Okay, hold on.

DVD is MPEG-2, already compressed. Of course you don't want to recompress the video to work with it, so divx/xvid, etc, are out of the question for editing purposes.

You have a couple options now.

You could either encode it with HuffYUV (which can do YV12 now, same colorspace as DVD). This is lossless.

You could also just demux the vob files into video .mpg/.mpv(.m2v) and whatever audio form its in, dolby digital is .ac3, PCM is .wav, MPEG 2 audio is .mpa(.mp2).

Keep in mind that editing may be easier with the HuffYUV file, because each frame is an I frame, file sizes will also be bigger though.

So basically, would you rather edit the file in it's original structure and format, or losslessly make a new file from it that may be easier to work with?

 

[Continuity27]

Originally posted by: Evander
Or, this SHOULD work but I haven't tried it. Use dvd decrypter-> mode=ifo -> settings: ifo mode : file splitting: none
It should rip you a single large vob. Just rename it whatever.mpg and you'll probably be OK

I wouldn't rename a vob file, DVD Decryptor can simply demux all the tracks anyways, giving you video, audio, subtitles, etc without the useless misc information included in VOB files like navigational pointers.