Converting VOB Files to AVI

 

I'm currently trying to hone my Combustion / Premiere skills and needed some footage to work with. I thought I'd try my hand at editing / restoring some home movies that had been recently burnt to DVD. Despite the fact that DVDs are basically MPEG-2, the DVD makers have made it as hard as possible for us to edit them.

If you look at the files on a DVD you will notice one (or more) VOB files; these are the files that contain the audio and video but the bad news is most applications won't let you open them.

After much Googling I found a free application that does the job nicely. This site has an application called Auto Gordian Knot that will decode a VOB file and output it as an AVI. It's very simple to do and the program and very easy to use. The decoding takes some time but it's well worth it.

Please note that most commercial DVDs prohibit this kind of reverse engineering.

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