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I want to copy a movie of mine onto a blank DVD. In the past, I would use MakeMKV and Bombono. Worked great. But Bombono is gone. Now I've tried DVDStyler (it did indeed eventually burn the movie but in four parts with these .vob files. And it froze my screen.) So I tried dedeve. It burned an iso and an .mpg. So I got Brasero and burned the iso. It burned the same four .vob files onto the DVD.
Anybody got a solution for me? Thanks.
Last edited by Gregg Bell; 12-05-2020 at 01:58 PM.
Reason: misleading subject headline
^ Any DVD that lets me look at its content has the movie cut up into several .VOB files.
So, afaics, that is correct.
If you still have problems you need to explain in more detail what you did,. so we can make an educated guess about where it went wrong.
I want to copy a movie of mine onto a blank DVD. In the past, I would use MakeMKV and Bombono. Worked great. But Bombono is gone. Now I've tried DVDStyler (it did indeed eventually burn the movie but in four parts with these .vob files. And it froze my screen.) So I tried dedeve. It burned an iso and an .mpg. So I got Brasero and burned the iso. It burned the same four .vob files onto the DVD.
Anybody got a solution for me? Thanks.
You can try K3b and see if that helps you at all, I do use this K3b to burn a DVD to a DVD disk.
^ Any DVD that lets me look at its content has the movie cut up into several .VOB files.
So, afaics, that is correct.
If you still have problems you need to explain in more detail what you did,. so we can make an educated guess about where it went wrong.
Thanks ondoho. I'm not tracking with what you're saying. You wrote: '...that is correct' As in the DVD should be in four parts? I've burned this same movie with MakeMKV and Bombono and it's in one part (on the blank DVD). The file I start with is 6.3Gb MKV. I choose the option to make it fit on the 4.7GB blank DVD disc.
I guess part of my question is how do others do this? What programs do they use to do what I'm attempting to do?
You can try K3b and see if that helps you at all, I do use this K3b to burn a DVD to a DVD disk.
Thanks PECONET009. I forgot to mention that I made an iso in Devede and when it asked (and I accepted) if I wanted to burn it, it then automatically opened K3b and I chose to burn it. K3b burned it to 98% and then gave me "write error."
Thanks PECONET009. I forgot to mention that I made an iso in Devede and when it asked (and I accepted) if I wanted to burn it, it then automatically opened K3b and I chose to burn it. K3b burned it to 98% and then gave me "write error."
In your post above you said it is a 6.3 GB file. The dvd is 4.7 GB to it will always have a write error when the disk is full. Try burning it to a dual layer DVD which has more space available. (8.5 GB).
Thanks ondoho. I'm not tracking with what you're saying. You wrote: '...that is correct' As in the DVD should be in four parts? I've burned this same movie with MakeMKV and Bombono and it's in one part (on the blank DVD). The file I start with is 6.3Gb MKV. I choose the option to make it fit on the 4.7GB blank DVD disc.
I guess part of my question is how do others do this? What programs do they use to do what I'm attempting to do?
All the content for one title set (VTS) is contiguous on the DVD, but broken up into 1GB files in the computer compatible file systems for the convenience of the various operating systems. You can see that there really is no break by examining the second or later file and looking at the Logical Block Address (LBA), contained in NAV packs.
The files are broken up without regard to content, which is why it is difficult to process any file but the first, since it most likely will not start at a VOBU (start with a NAV pack). The usual split point is at 524,287 sectors (1,048,574 KB, 1,073,739,776 bytes). In hexadecimal this is 7FFFF sectors (219-1), or 3FFFF800 bytes.
BTW I found this with DDG "dvd vob size" - too easy!
Thanks ondoho. I'm not tracking with what you're saying. You wrote: '...that is correct' As in the DVD should be in four parts? I've burned this same movie with MakeMKV and Bombono and it's in one part (on the blank DVD). The file I start with is 6.3Gb MKV. I choose the option to make it fit on the 4.7GB blank DVD disc.
I guess part of my question is how do others do this? What programs do they use to do what I'm attempting to do?
Maybe you need to use ffmpeg to change (re-encode/resize) the video file first, then burn it?
In your post above you said it is a 6.3 GB file. The dvd is 4.7 GB to it will always have a write error when the disk is full. Try burning it to a dual layer DVD which has more space available. (8.5 GB).
Thanks savvy. Bombono had a feature allowing me to put the entire 6.3 GB file onto the 4.7 GB DVD. Obviously, it compressed it. I just know there was a button to click on Bombono to do it. And Devede had something similar.
All the content for one title set (VTS) is contiguous on the DVD, but broken up into 1GB files in the computer compatible file systems for the convenience of the various operating systems. You can see that there really is no break by examining the second or later file and looking at the Logical Block Address (LBA), contained in NAV packs.
The files are broken up without regard to content, which is why it is difficult to process any file but the first, since it most likely will not start at a VOBU (start with a NAV pack). The usual split point is at 524,287 sectors (1,048,574 KB, 1,073,739,776 bytes). In hexadecimal this is 7FFFF sectors (219-1), or 3FFFF800 bytes.
BTW I found this with DDG "dvd vob size" - too easy!
I know, bro. My bad. I just thought the other thread was too narrow and since Bombono was no longer available it was no longer pertinent to what I wanted.
If the vob files are encrypted you'll need to use dvdbackup, again ddg will tell you how to use it, but heres the page(s) you need http://dvdbackup.sourceforge.net/
Basically I rip dvd's by using dd to create and iso file, then dvdbackup to extract the title(s) I want as vob files and then ffmpeg to encode the vob files to mp4 format at the bitrate I want (video bitrate affects the size of the final mp4 file).
Thanks zeebra. That would be fine. So how would I do that? And will it work with an .mkv or an .mpg (because those are the two files I've got)?
ffmpeg works with most video and sound files actually. It's super complex and can do alot of things, so I would advice a bit of experimentation to get the file to the best size and format. I can't tell you exactly how to go about that, but you can do it with ffmpeg for sure.
It might even be the program/function that your other dvd burning program used and relied upon to decrease the filesize before burning it.
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