To write back the edited VOB files to a DVD disc for playback on a standard DVD player, you will need to go through another process called DVD authoring, which can be done using Womble's DVD Maker, or using another DVD authoring software.VLC media player works with the following file extensions: This is why that the editor does not have a VOB format for saving.ģ. Whenever a vob file is edited, some of those information will no longer be valid and may be discarded by the editor and some other data ('user data' in the MPEG specs) which include the caption texts, will be preserved by the editor. Those data include information about the file offsets and time duration of all chapters included in the VOB file.Ģ. Although a vob file is also an MPEG file, it has additional data that a standard MPEG decoder will not understand, e.g., the private data, which only a DVD decoder will understand. VOB stands for 'Video Object' as defined in DVD specifications. '3.What is the difference between a VOB file and an MPEG file?īelow are some text about the VOB file that may be helpful for you.ġ. Programs like DVDVOB2MPG ( VOB2MPG is reported not to work on Win 10, my system included) strip the additional info and make it compliant for editing.Įdit: Use the right tool for the job. While a VOB is an mpeg stream, it contains additional header info that may cause issues when trying to edit. Give a chance to dedicated DVD copy application - and perhaps. Extension vob is in fact a mpg (MPEG Program Stream) (so changing extension vob to mpg is correct). Secondly there is few dedicated applications to copy DVD with functionality that allow to manipulate some components (audio tracks, subtitle tracks etc). I would try to copy files from DVD (some of them are accessible from Windows and i assume from Linux too). You weren't aware of that feature in VLC? nope, doesn't use VLC since pre 0.9 mpg file, which VLC creates when playing back the DVD with the record button pressed. How would you copy a DVD to the hard drive? All I want is the. Why can VLC record off a DVD, but then not play back the very video it created? Help! AVIDEMUX 2.5.4, however, was able to show video on its own screen, and it successfully converted the. I might add here that trying to use WinFF to convert the video to. Is there a way to get VLC to use the same extension, or is there another version of the same extension that I can incorporate into VLC? Windows Media Player can now play the video, but VLC still can't. It opened the Windows App store, and the extension downloaded. I then tried to play the same recording thru Windows Media Player, and the player told me the computer needed an MPEG 2 video extension. When the disc was recorded to the hard drive, I tried to play it thru VLC, but all I got was the audio. I wanted to put the recording onto my computer's hard drive, and so started playing the DVD on VLC, and hit 'record'.

Mpeg2 extension