Creating dvd video from vobs

mtb · 07-22-2008, 03:00 AM

Hello,

a friend of mine has brutally copied the content of a video dvd ( not commercial and made by a friend of him ).

On the usb key i have the following files:

Code:

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root      20480 26 mag 22:00 VTS_01_0.IFO
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root      20480 26 mag 22:00 VTS_01_0.BUP
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root     167936 26 mag 22:00 VIDEO_TS.VOB
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root      12288 26 mag 22:00 VIDEO_TS.IFO
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root      12288 26 mag 22:00 VIDEO_TS.BUP
-rwxrwxrwx 2 root root   13158400 26 mag 22:00 9°workshop (2).VOB
-rwxrwxrwx 2 root root 1073739776 26 mag 22:00 9° workshop (1).VOB

Can i create a video dvd in order to watch it on the dvd reader and not only in the pc?

Thank you in advance

David the H. · 07-22-2008, 07:44 AM

If the thing is a straight copy of the files on the original dvd, and there was no copy-protection involved, then you should be able to simply burn the files back onto another dvd. The disk needs to be burned as a "video dvd" though, not a data dvd, and the files need to be inside a folder called VIDEO_TS.

On the other hand, you have two strangely-named vob files there that don't conform to the dvd file structure. The two large ones. What are those? It looks to me like you have the vobs and ifos for the menu ready, but someone has renamed the main video vobs to something else. If so, then that would break the dvd.

PS: you can test to see if the current dvd structure is playable by trying to play it as-is. For example, run "gmplayer dvd:// -dvd-device /path/to/VIDEO_TS" to play it in mplayer (gui mode), or for xine, "xine dvd:/full/path/to/VIDEO_TS" (xine doesn't accept relative pathnames). If it works this way, then it should also work when burned to disk.

mtb · 07-22-2008, 11:58 AM

Thank you, i have just tried with mplayer.

In fact i renamed 9° workshop (1).VOB to VTS_01_1.VOB and 9°workshop (2).VOB
to VTS_01_2.VOB, created VIDEO_TS and with mplayer it works.

Now i have to find out how to burn the image. Downloading now k3b.

mtb · 07-23-2008, 04:47 PM

Created an empty AUDIO_TS and:

mkisofs -dvd-video -o /tmp/videodvd.iso /home/mtb/desktop/dvdvideo

Problem solved, thank you again David