Posted by Netmask on 05/17/06 10:35

"rachid" <rachidheffels@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1147815251.383520.48800@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> Hi there !
>
> There is something that I don't understand about DVD-Video.
> First let me tell you about my satellite card:
> My PCI satellite card recieves a MPEG-2 stream, when I tell it to
> record, it starts copying bits and bytes to my hard disk, when I tell
> it to stop, it stops, does a little funky things, and there I have a
> MPEG-2 files.
> No converting or anything, it's the same quality as it was originally.
>
> So second, I don't understand why I can't copy the MPEG-2 data from a
> DVD-Video disk.
> A DVD-Video disk has MPEG-2 data on it, stored in VOB files.
> Why can't I find any programs that can just dive into the VOB file and
> copy the MPEG-2 data to my hard disk ?
>
> Or am I just looking at the wrong software ?
>
> Hope someone can clarify this for me ! :-)
>

You can just copy the VOB files straight into a mpeg editor like Womble,
VideoRedo etc, join them up and output a single mpeg 2 file.

You can even change the suffix from vob to mpg in many cases and play the
file in WMP or VLC or Media Player Classic etc etc

I'm assuming the vob files are non protected files. If they are from a
commercial DVD then you will have to decrypt them first before you can copy
them on to your hard disk.

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