This is for me, so i don’t forget how i did this.
The big boss needed a DVD for a presentation the next day. I had previously ripped a program from that DVD to play during a service, but only that program, and not the whole disc (yes, legitimately—it was our own content). The original disc could not be found. Luckily after some searching i found the files in an unexpected folder on my workstation, but all DVD Decrypter left me was VTS_01_1.VOB and VTS_01_0.IFO. Those two are not a complete DVD folder which can be made into a playable DVD Video disc on their own. I knew i could do some reencoding or demux/mux hokey pokey to get something into a playable format, but since i already had a direct .VOB rip, i thought i should be able to simply go direct to DVD, and i didn’t want to wait around for all that processing—it was late. Of course.
So i turn to Google, but get discouraged quickly. Sounds complicated, and i don’t know how to do it. So i go the known route and try to burn the VOB using Sonic DVDit! LE, but it only encoded the video. I couldn’t figure out how to get anything else i already had to get the job done. I started searching for demuxing software and how-tos, but they all seemed overly-complicated too. Reluctantly, i turn back to the unknown IfoEdit. The Doom9.net guide didn’t quite apply to my situation. It assumed you had ripped a complete disc and were reediting it. It seemed to be the tool i needed, but i couldn’t quite figure out how to use it. Finally, i stumbled on the Create IFOs function, which generates the proper DVD information files for an existing VOB file—exactly what i needed.
From there, it was only a matter of using Folder2Iso v1.1 to build an ISO disc image that could be burned into a DVD Video-compliant disc with DVD Decrypter.
The process works. But it took me a few iterations to get it right.
First mistake: i chose the folder containing the DVD files in Folder2iso, which created an image with those files in the root of the disc. DVD players will not recognize Video discs unless the content is in a folder named VIDEO_TS.
Second mistake: i changed the PGC options in IfoEdit from their default (Create 1 PGC only) to Create a PGC for each new VobID, which made the disc play through 45 second chunks, instead of the entire 4+minute program. It played the whole clip fine, but the timer kept flipping through each 45 second segment, which wasn’t correct.
Third mistake: i see now that i should have changed the Chapter options in IfoEdit to Create Chapter for 1st cell only instead of the default Chapter for each cell. Not sure how it was on the original disc, but now there are six seemingly arbitrary chapter points in this 4:21 program. But i’m not worried about that enough to waste another disc.
