DVD into AXP

[Mike Johnson]

it all depends on what DVD it is.

If it’s the retail Shrek 2 it’s both copy (Macrovision/CSS) and region protected,
that require a decryption of the copy protection, loads of apps for that.

if it’s a home movie burnt on a DVD then it’s most likely unprotected,

Then, on the DVD the movie and sound itself is baked into .VOB files.

VOB stands for DVD Video Object. It is basically one of the core files found on DVD-Video discs and contains the actual movie data.

Basically VOB file is just a basic MPEG-2 system stream – meaning that it is a file that contains multiplexed MPEG-2 video stream, audio streams (normally AC3 format) and subtitle streams.

What you need to do is process the .VOB files with another app that subtracts the movie, the sound and the subtitles into different files.

What you have to do then is transcode your mpeg2 stream into a codec your editor can understand. Depending on what codec you use this is gonna be a quality loss, unless you choose a lossless one, like BitJazz or Microcosm.

Then you need to do the same with the audio unless it’s in aiff format.

Good luck!

[Doug Collins]

Thanks for the info. Just an fyi, we are (I’m told) using the Avid DV codec to encode video.

Another question, what app would you suggest to process the .VOB files?

Doug

[Mike Johnson]

all depends if you use mac or PC,
I’m a mac user; and I would use
bbDEMUX
Drop2DV 1.0c

or similiar.

Dont know what the best tools for PC are, a quick search on versiontracker.com with the keyword “VOB”
gave me “Allok Video Splitter” among the results, it seems to be able to do the trick.

By using the Avid DV codec you will have a slight quality loss compared to the mpeg2 on the movie, since it’s not a lossless encoder.