VOB to MPG – The easiest method
After wasting a few precious hours wading through forums and worthless shareware sites (all promoting the same 4 or 5 applications) I finally found the easiest method to convert VOBs recorded by a DVD camera into MPGs that are recognized by Ulead’s Crap, uuuhm, I mean, DVD Workshop. And the solution is, ladies and gentlemen: changing the damn file extensions! The funniest aspect of all this hustle is that the aforementioned Ulead app recognized and imported 4 (mini)DVDs almost instantly but it had something personal with the 5th one because I couldn’t import it no matter how I tried… Oh well, I’m glad I solved the problem.
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Warren on August 20th, 2006
I discovered the same thing but now have encountered a puzzle. I copied 2 mini-DV tapes using my Sony DVD recorder RDR-GX330, sp mode. One to A DVD+RW and the other to A DVD-R. Changing the extensions works for both sets of VOB files and I can import them into either Pinnacle 9.4 or Adobe Premier but the files from the DVD-R only show up as about 10 seconds long and behave the same way when I try to use Windows media player but they play fine with Cyberlink Power DVD.