Posted by Roy L. Fuchs on 05/20/06 19:48

On Wed, 17 May 2006 10:35:22 GMT, "Netmask"
<netmask56NOFLEAS@geemail.com> Gave us:

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>"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 ! :-)
>>
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>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.
>

Play it off a stick on my PSP! What a cool device!

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