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curmudgeon
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 Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 2:54 pm Post subject: Changing containers |
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| I have a .vob file I ripped from a dvd that I would like to put in a different container (without recompressing). Any suggestions on the "best" container, and which tools I should use? It seemss mencoder only supports .avi and .mpeg (does .avi still have a 2 GiB limit?). Thank you in advance. |
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Gusar
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| Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't think AVI even takes mpeg2. Matroska is probably the best option. Install mkvtoolnix with the wxwidgets USE flag and you'll get mmg, a nice GUI to create matroska files. Why do you want to change the container anyway if you're not going to recompress? |
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EzInKy
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| Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Gusar wrote: | | Why do you want to change the container anyway if you're not going to recompress? |
Good question. Unless the device the OP is targeting a device that doesn't support .vob files there really isn't much point in changing containers.
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beandog
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| Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Gusar wrote: | | Why do you want to change the container anyway if you're not going to recompress? |
I can think of a few reasons:
- add subtitles
- remove some audio tracks
- custom metadata
- chapter support
Oh, all supported by Matroska. 
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