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Is there a Freeware to convert .vob .ufo .bup ro Mpeg or Avi? I am trying to make a copy of a home made DVD. I have 2 folders, "AUDIO_TS" and "VIDEO_TS" AUDIO_TS is empty and VIDEO_TS contain .vob .ufo .bup files. When copied as-is on a DVD-R, It can't be payed. From reading on the net, it seems that I have to convert those file.

You should be able to play that with any regular DVD playing software. What you have to do is select an option so you can tell it which exact file to open (as opposed to letting it try to open the DVD itself).

You want to choose the VIDEO_TS directory. Then select either the file named VIDEO_TS.IFO or VTS_01_0.IFO, and it should start playing. Selecting either file seems to work (I don't know why). I do believe the key is that the file has the extension .ifo

In my experience, even a DVD player program (like Power DVD) cannot/will not open a DVD if you point it to one of the .vob files.

leoblob, I have no problem playing the original DVD but after making a copy, the copy, who looks identical will not play. Now I noticed that when recording, I can see:
File warning:- could not open file for read (System-87).
File warning: [D:\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_ TS.IFO - could not open file for read (System-87).
File warning: [D:\VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_ TS.VOB - could not open file for read (System-87).
File warning: [D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.BUP- could not open file for read (System-87).
File warning: [D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_0.IFO- could not open file for read (System-87).
File warning: [D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB- could not open file for read (System-87).
File warning: [D:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_2.VOB- could not open file for read (System-87).
After 45 minutes, it closed the disc, writing Lead-out and states that the burning process is successfully completed at speed 2.4x (3 324KB/s)

Any help would be greatly appreciate.

With all those error messages during the recording process, I'd probably assume that's where the core problem resides, as opposed to in the playback process.

This "could not open file for read" seems to be a deal breaker. What if you first copy the original DVD onto your hard drive (into a temporary directory) and then burn the new DVD from those files? Do other non-copyrighted DVDs copy & play OK (using the same exact batch of blank DVD-Rs)? Just trying to come up with ideas about how to track down the problem.

There is shareware to convert the files... search for videoLAN. I don't think it's a very convenient or user-friendly program... but I use it a lot and I did send them $20... and you're going to end up with huge MPEGs that will only fit onto another DVD anyway.

Could it be a language problem? The original DVD has been mad in S. Korea and now I am using an US windows XP version.
When I tried to copy the DVD to my HDD, I open the DVD, copy the 2 folders ("AUDIO_TS" and "VIDEO_TS" 1.53 GB), went to my HDD, to the folder I created and past it. It took 2 seconds. I tried to play it from that location but nothing happened.


Thank you for your help. I copied again the DVD to my HDD and burned it to a DVD and now it is working fine.
THANK YOU"

VOB files will play using MPlayer, VLC media player.

VLC can be got at http://www.videolan.org/ -and it is free. No conversion needed and an excellent application.

Ripping a DVD to xvid or divx avi is really quite easy, if you have the right tools. You’ll first need to download DVD decrypter (google it) and auto gordian knot (autogk) (google it). DVD decrypter allows you to rip the raw DVD video and audio data off of your disk drive, decrypt the CSS protection, and finally remove any other protection schemes, such as Macrovision. AutoGK is a package of codecs and a GUI interface that will take the raw DVD data through an AV processing pipeline to produce a single windows video file.

Step 1: RIP
Put in a DVD and launch DVD Decrypter. Choose IFO (Information File) mode:

Now make sure you’ve selected a destination for your files:

Now you need to find which program chain to rip (PGC). Pick the one that’s the longest, or in the case of a TV dvd, the episode you want to rip:

Everything’s set up. Just click the green arrow and wait about twenty minutes, after which you will have a set of files which look like this:
VTS_01_0.IFO
VTS_01_PGC_07 - Stream Information.txt
VTS_01_PGC_07_1.VOB
The whole ripping process shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes.

Step 2: ENCODE
Launch AutoGK and select the first .vob that you just ripped as an input file, and set an output file name:

Now you need to select audio (choose the first one) and subtitles, if any:

If you’re ripping a TV, set the preferred size to 350MB, if you’re ripping a movie, choose either 700MB or 1400MB, depending on your preference:

Finally, click on advanced settings and choose MP3 VBR 128kbs:

Then click “add job” and “start.”

Hope that helps.

PS.
All tools are freeware