Posted by Davey Boy 2 on 11/16/51 11:45

<xyuxyu@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi there - I wonder if someone can help me with this. Our band have
> made a DVD but we've lost one of the original MPG files for one of the
> songs, so I want to grab the file back off the DVD and put it back on
> the computer in MPG format. How do I do this? I've had a look on the
> DVD and the video is there in these .VOB files. I have Ulead
> Videostudio 8 and VLC Media player 0.8.2, which I've tried. ULead can't
> open .VOB files. I also have a video camera and tried doing video
> capture by plugging my DVD player into the camera then the camera into
> the PC. It captures from the camera just fine, but doesn't pick up a
> video signal from the DVD player.
>
> I tried one of the FAQs for this, but couldn't find an answer. There
> must be a simple way using software, I'm sure - anybody know how to
> grab video from a DVD and put it into a file in Windows? Nb. I have a
> DVD writer in my PC.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> John (Glasgow, Scotland)


John, try copying the vob files to hard disk and rename them as m mpg file.
This does assume that the video you want is in a single vob file otherwise
you may have to join them.

I've jsut tried this on a family DVD I created earlier and was able to
import it into Premier.

HTH

Dave (Newbury,England)

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