If I have only the "movie" , no special features, an MP4 or mkv is the way to go. I try to save an MP4 that way. Six to seven hundred meg's is better than 7 gig. I have read that dvdauthor created an "index" whatever that is.
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 3:39 AM Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 2022-12-17 at 23:27 -0500, Bill C wrote:
> I tried to copy just the "feature" vobs and such from a DVD iso
> using dvdbackup and I didn't know if anything needed to be done using
> dvdauthor. I have kind of given up on the iso to MP4 idea, though I
> know it can be done. Would an index need to be created somehow with
> dvdauthor to get certain vobs to play?
If you're just copying the main feature of a DVD, then it's usually a
multi-part VOB broken apart every gigabyte (unless the feature is so
small its just one gigabyte VOB file, by itself). All the other
ancillary VOBs can be ignored (normally speaking, unless they've done
something odd to thwart piracy).
If you were converting it to a MP4 that didn't have that gigabyte
filesize problem, you could convert all the VOB sections into a single
larger file (as part of the conversion process).
If you had to keep it in gigabyte pieces, then there are players which
could be given a playlist of the parts to play (m3u or pls files, for
instance). They're little more than a text file with each filename on
a new line, in the order of which file to play.
Bearing in mind that the gigabyte-sized chunks takes into account
limitations of the filesystem it's stored on, as well as the player
playing it, and probably networking, too.
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