Trim VOB

[WillieLee]

Any freeware out there that will trim a few minutes from the beginning of a
VOB (DVD) file? Some programs recorded from TV to a stand-alone DVD
recorder often get some "unwanted" promos, ads, etc. and I'd like to get rid
of this before making a final copy.

Any help is greatly appreciated

 

[jb]

Any freeware out there that will trim a few minutes from the beginning of a
VOB (DVD) file? Some programs recorded from TV to a stand-alone DVD
recorder often get some "unwanted" promos, ads, etc. and I'd like to get rid
of this before making a final copy.

Any help is greatly appreciated

Usually you can rename a .vob file to mpg and go from there.

 

[Stuart]

Any freeware out there that will trim a few minutes from the beginning of
a VOB (DVD) file? Some programs recorded from TV to a stand-alone DVD
recorder often get some "unwanted" promos, ads, etc. and I'd like to get
rid of this before making a final copy.

Any help is greatly appreciated

Copy of 3/30 discussion in alt.video.dvd.software:
I am not aware of any free vob or mpeg frame accurate editors either, but I
use Chopper XP which is free to edit clips from vob files. It works in most
situations, but it is not frame accurate. In fact, there is almost a second
of slop in selections.


http://www.digital-miner.com/ - freeware but development stopped.
Stuart//

 

[Kittie Spit]

I haven't done this, but you *might* be able to use VirtualDub along
with VirtualDubMod & Virtualdub-MPEG2. [All freeware.]

You'll find help and download links at www.videohelp.com

Here are a couple of links:
http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=Virtualdub-MPEG2

http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=VirtualdubMOD

 

[CoMa]

Usually you can rename a .vob file to mpg and go from there.

Mpg2Cut2
http://www.geocities.com/rocketjet4/

Fault Tolerant, GOP level, binary editor for basic cutting of Mpeg2
Program Stream files(DVD, SVCD, HDTV, DTV, TS).
Handles very large files (64bit) captured from Digital Television
broadcasts (DTV), including High Definiton (HDTV).



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Regards
CoMa

http://hubbabub.deviantart.com/

 

[CoMa]

Any freeware out there that will trim a few minutes from the beginning of a
VOB (DVD) file? Some programs recorded from TV to a stand-alone DVD
recorder often get some "unwanted" promos, ads, etc. and I'd like to get rid
of this before making a final copy.

Any help is greatly appreciated

I have done it a few times using this setup

VOB2MPG --> Mpg2Cut2 --> GUI for dvdauthor --> Burn a DVD


VOB2MPG
http://www.svcd2dvd.com/downloads.aspx#VOB2MPG
VOB2MPG goes through a whole DVD VIDEO_TS folder
and joins up the various vobsets to produce mpgs for the
different titles. Requires .net framework 2.

Mpg2Cut2
http://www.geocities.com/rocketjet4/
Fault Tolerant, GOP level, binary editor for basic cutting of Mpeg2
Program Stream files(DVD, SVCD, HDTV, DTV, TS).
Handles very large files (64bit) captured from Digital Television
broadcasts (DTV), including High Definiton (HDTV).

GUI for dvdauthor
http://www.videohelp.com/~gfd
Free DVD author tool, features: PAL + NTSC, 4:3 + 16:9,
SingleVTS and MultiVTS, Elementary and Multiplexed
Videostreams (mpv, m2v, m1v, mp2, ac3, dts, mpg, vob),
preview, Chaptereditor, Subtitlemenus and much more.
GUI for dvdauthor.


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Regards
CoMa

http://hubbabub.deviantart.com/

 

[CoMa]

Any freeware out there that will trim a few minutes from the beginning of a
VOB (DVD) file? Some programs recorded from TV to a stand-alone DVD
recorder often get some "unwanted" promos, ads, etc. and I'd like to get rid
of this before making a final copy.

Any help is greatly appreciated

Maybe this would be of interest

Comskip & Comclean
http://mk.kaashoek.com/comskip/

Comskip
Comskip is a free mpeg commercial detector. It is a windows console
application that reads a mpeg file and analyses the content based on
a large amount of configurable parameters. After analysis it generates
a file in various possible formats containing the location of the
commercials inside the mpeg file. The formats include input files for
interactive video editors (VideoRedo, Cuttermaran,Mpeg2Schnitt...)
command line video cutters (mpgtx, cuttermaran, mencoder) and
video players (zoomplayer, mplayer, ...). Comskip can read
MPEG PS files up to HD resolution (max 2000x1200) at 25fps (PAL)
and 29.97fps (NTSC)

Comclean
For automatic removal of the detected commercials from the mpeg PS
recording you can use comclean. Comclean comes in 4 versions




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CoMa

http://hubbabub.deviantart.com/

 

[WillieLee]

Thanks for all of your recommendations. I'll give them a try and let you
know how/what works best.