Oh, that's why I'm unhappy with how the files on the disc came out. While I've got the complete videos on the disc, I was figuring on putting up choice "chapter" segments...but with these VOB files there's no separation between those or even the different programs, so I have to find some way to do that now. When creating the disc, I went to the trouble of setting up the chapter separations so that I wouldn't have to do all that, so I'm disappointed that I can't just upload the pieces I want right away...there's yet more work to do.
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Okay, here are the programs I use to rip and encode videos off dvds.
- DVD Shrink - it's an outdated program, but it still works with most DVD's. If you're just planning on ripping your own DVD-Rs and don't need to decode the encryption, then it should work fine. Use this to make rip a copy of the DVD onto your hard drive before you start encoding, you don't want to encode straight from your DVD drive.
- Vidcoder - it's a video encoding program that's based on the popular Handbrake encoding program. It's more streamlined and easier to use IMO compared to Handbrake. Use this to do the actual video encoding. With this you can make separate videos for each chapter of the DVD, if you want. Make sure you have "Deblock" set to "Default" on the Video Filters submenu of the Settings menu, or else your videos are going to be interlaced and look bad.
Both of these programs are freeware and should be easily findable with some light Googling. If you need more help, I always found videohelp.com to be useful, they have guides and forums that have lots of information about video encoding.