Re: I can' import DVD with IFO or VOB extension

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Change the VOB extension to MPG. Now you should be able to import it.

Cari
www.coribright.com

 

[Guest]

Change all the *.VOB's to MPG? There are 6 in total. Also, what do I do with the two *.IFO files and two *.BUP files.?

 

[Guest]

One more thing. I did copy and rename the file, but when trying to import I got the following message

The file C:\Documents and Settings\Craig Perkins\Desktop\video\VTS_01_1.mpg cannot be imported because the codec required to play the file is not installed on your computer. If you have already tried to download and install the codec, close and restart Windows Movie Maker, and then try to import the file again

What is the codec file?

 

[Bob [MVP]]

The *.VOB files contain the video and audio streams.
Don't worry about the *.IFO and *.BUP files.

If you rename all the *.VOB files to *.MPG, I
think you will find that you will only be able
to import the first one, but not the other 5.

Also, if the *.VOB files contain multiple
audio streams, it might not work.

I suggest using DVD Shrink (freeware) to
generate a single VOB file, containing a single
audio stream. Then you should be able to
rename that to an MPG extension.

Of course you may still have problems
importing the MPG, as Movie Maker does not
work well with most MPEG-2 decoders.

-Bob
____________________________
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Media Center Edition
www.microsoft.com/ehome

Change all the *.VOB's to MPG? There are 6 in total. Also, what do I

do with the two *.IFO files and two *.BUP files.?

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

DVD codecs are not included with XP... they come from PowerDVD or WinDVD....
basically any software that enables you to play a DVD on your PC.

Cari
www.coribright.com

 

[Digger]

In addition to what others have suggested, you might try "DVD2AVI", free
download, as it will generally convert VOBs directly to an AVI Type-2, which
should easily import to MM 1 or 2. The advantage of DVD2AVI is that it
includes its own mpg2 decoder and VAFPI library, which also makes it
suitable for use with Avisynth. There are some limitations with D2V and
embedded audio, but overall it will do a fair job most of the time. There
is also a handy guide available...

http://arbor.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~jackei/dvd2avi/index.html

I have personally had great luck building custom VOB2MPEG, VOB2DV, and
VOB2Audio filters with MS Graphedit. These filters (essentially a macro for
DirectX) allow for correctly joining multiple VOBs into a single composite
output, without the sync and indexing issues normally encountered when using
other utilities; i.e. FileMerger, VOB Join, MPEG Join and others.

Watch for wrapping...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...irectx9_c/directx/htm/overviewofgraphedit.asp

I would highly encourage anyone on a tight budget, and those who routinely
convert between media formats, to investigate the versatility and methods of
using Graphedit.exe to build custom reusable decoders and conversion
filters. Wish I could recommend a comprehensive source for usage info, but,
unfortunately, I don't know of one. Thus, one is pretty much left to one's
own devices, based primarily upon what little information may be gleaned
from google searches.

For example...

http://nickyguides.digital-digest.com/audio-extract.htm

A word of caution, most online guides recommend the use of (and/ or
download/ installation/ registration of) WinDVD's iviaudio.ax. My advice
would be to choose an alternative to iviaudio.ax, as some versions are known
to cause severe problems with many apps, including MM.