As stated in the "Glossary" for VOB: I would like to know if it is possible to extract the said streams above, preserving their ORIGINAL encoding parameters... i.e. Give me the MPEG-2 stream "as is" so to speak... because it seems to me that all the software out there will re-encode the VOB's again into MPEG2? hence the reason they take 1 hour++ to go thru the motions again? Can anyone please give a straight and clear answer if that is possible or not to just extract the MPEG-2 as is ? and if so, what freeware would you use... Currently i use DVD<youknowwhat>, DGMPGDec, and TMPGEnc.
You can convert a DVD title (group of related VOB files) to one large MPEG-2 file using VOB2MPG Each title will be converted to a separate MPEG-2 file, of course the largest file will be the main title. Menus are not converted. In a DVD, subtitles are part of the video stream, but AFAIK, MPEG-2 does not support subtitles - therefor, although the file will contain the video and audio streams, the subtitle stream is not available. The MPEG2 file can be authored back to DVD using suitable software (DVD Flick has an option to copy MPEG-2 streams - thus no recoding), but subtitles would have to be added from another source (they are not avalable from the mpeg). http://www.videohelp.com/tools/VOB2MPG
