Newbie query - creating a DVD from a single large VOB file..

[djdust]

There is no 'structure' to the VOB file - it's completely standalone. I created it myself by recording it with my DVD recorder then ripping the file on its own using DVD Decrypter. I've remastered the audio on it and replaced the AC3 file with a new PCM WAV file. THere's no IFO files, VIDEO_TS directory, just the VOB...

[lancecarr]

The VOB file IS a structure in itself in that the vob extension means that the MPEG2s have been "wrapped" in a container.
If you just use the Import DVD/VR function then VS knows to look "through" the vob container and will extract the MPEG2 within.

[djdust]

ok, I've managed to get a directory structure and so on and have managed to import the file in. Stay tuned..

[harchh]

I have an MPEG video source file that about 5.05 GB long. I edited to a run time of 1:24:00 (approx). I set VS to output to a 4.7 GB DVD. I told it to use the 90 minute quality setting (bit rate).

I ended up with a converted file size of xx which resulted in a 2.2 GB DVD size. The 4:3 video image has lots of noise, lots more than the original source shows.

Before I picked the 90-minute run length setting, I did a burn to disk and ended up with >6 GB of output size, despite having set VS to a 4.7 GB target media size.

What I'd like, of course, if for VS to use the variable speed encoding to just "take a little off the top" and reduce the 5.05 GB input to a 4.7 GB result...or there abouts.

Any suggestions in how to get it to fill up the media? Am I just going to have to cough it up and use a double sided disk and write the 6 GB image out?