Based on my experience, renaming from .VOB to .MPG only seems
to work if the VOB contains just a single audio stream. If
it has multiple audio streams (different formats, languages),
then renaming the file doesn't work.

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-Bob
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" MS" <ms@nospam.com> wrote in message news:%23vLvEuezFHA.596@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Something that sometimes works, is just to change the extension from .vob to
> .mpg. That is a very quick way to "convert" .vob to .mpg.
>
> The video in a .vob file is mpeg-2 video, exactly the same as in an mpeg-2
> .mpg. The difference is that the .vob file also contains some other info for
> the DVD. But the video might just play fine when renamed as .mpg.
>
> In fact, I've converted DVDs (non-encrypted ones, of course) to WMV before
> that way. Change the extension on the .vobs to .mpg, then import the .mpgs
> into WMM, and save to WMV.
>
> "SmellyKatt" <SmellyKatt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:307054A4-6B76-45DC-82BB-3E16F4D4BF33@microsoft.com...
>> For PapaJohn:
>> Your newsletter #19 is the BEST help I've found on this topic, but I have
>> one problem: I'm using a SONY DCR-DVD92 and recording on 8mm DVD's. I'm
>> recording using LP (so 60 minutes on a 1.4GB disk). I can convert the .vob
> to
>> .mpg using TMPGEnc and view my movies on MediaPlayer...but NOT the entire
>> movie. The DVD contains 2 .vob files (vts_01_1.vob and vts_01_2.vob). The
>> first file is 45 minutes; the second is 15 minutes. TMPGEnc allows me to
>> convert the 01_1 file BUT NOT the 01_2 file. So I loose the last 15
> minutes
>> of my movie
>>
>> Why does this happen? Can you help me? I've tried all versions of TMPGEnc
>> (2.5 Plus, Editor, Xpress), but they all cut off the last 15 minutes.
>>
>> Any help you can give me would be very appreciated! Thank you!!
>>
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