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    Help with DVD Shrink and VOB files

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by speedsterdm, Apr 14, 2007.

  1. speedsterdm

    speedsterdm Notebook Consultant

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    Had a quick question. I have a movie on my hard drive in the form of several VOB files totaling a little over 7 gigs. Normally I would just point DVD Shrink at the folder and it would shrink it and make one ISO burnable image out of all of them. Occasionally I have to use something like FixVTS to prep the VOB's if DVD Shrink can't do it for some reason. Then I run DVD Shrink on the fixed files and I'm good to go.

    My problem is that FixVTS won't even work for these files. It says it is unable to back them up. And the error I get with DVD Shrink is that it runs out of memory or something.

    I investigated a bit and the files are labeled in a sequential manner that I am sure you are all familiar with: VTS_1_0, VTS_1_1, VTS_2_0, VTS_2_1, etc, etc. It gets to about VTS_17_1 but then skips straight to VTS_18_1. Is this my problem or is that normal since the rest of the files are all VTS_#_1? Any fixes for this? Thanks in advance.

    Sorry for the length, just trying to be very detailed.
     
  2. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Sounds like you should probably re-rip your DVD to the hard drive and try again, as there are probably some files that were missed on the first pass.

    Check your free disk space, too. If you have less than 7GB free, that may be the issue as well. Delete some stuff you don't need, and try again. When working with video, it takes a lot of disk space.
     
  3. speedsterdm

    speedsterdm Notebook Consultant

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    Alright thanks for suggestions. I will try when I get the chance.