Yesterday I finally found Satyricon's live concert in the Norwegian Opera on a DVD and today I decided to make the DVD into one more... easily operable file, mostly bc when clicking somewhere on the timeline, mpv thinks a lot before switching to the moment where I clicked (that happens even when the files were copied from the DVD disc to the local storage drive). So I spent a little longer than 3 hrs in attempts to merge them into one single file but none of the methods worked - the result was either without any sound at all or if it had sound, it was slower than the picture.
Eventually, it occurred to me that VOB is just another kind of video container much like Matroska video, so out of desperation I accidentally found what I needed in the first place - an easy way to merge all VOB files into one without losses or conversion.
It's a good idea before that to install the package libdvdcss bc it seems several programs are using it, when it's available in the system.
Since usually the VOB files are more than one and each one is 1 GB in size (I'm guessing this is the maximum size for this format), you will have several. In my case they were 6. So you just right click the first big VOB file and select "Open With... MKVToolnix-GUI". Don't change anything in the muxed sources. Simply set a new output file name, for instance "VTS_TEST.mkv" and click "begin muxing". Depending on your hardware, the process should take 5 minutes or less. Then you'll have one large MKV file comprised of all the VOB files.
Eventually, it occurred to me that VOB is just another kind of video container much like Matroska video, so out of desperation I accidentally found what I needed in the first place - an easy way to merge all VOB files into one without losses or conversion.
It's a good idea before that to install the package libdvdcss bc it seems several programs are using it, when it's available in the system.
Since usually the VOB files are more than one and each one is 1 GB in size (I'm guessing this is the maximum size for this format), you will have several. In my case they were 6. So you just right click the first big VOB file and select "Open With... MKVToolnix-GUI". Don't change anything in the muxed sources. Simply set a new output file name, for instance "VTS_TEST.mkv" and click "begin muxing". Depending on your hardware, the process should take 5 minutes or less. Then you'll have one large MKV file comprised of all the VOB files.
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