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Topic: Why convert? Video question

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I get Hot Videos every month and a buddy of mine was telling me that I should convert the VOB files to MPG. I guess my question is, if the VOB files play fine in VDJ/Cue why would anyone wanna do this? I've looked around on the internet for info regarding the advantages of VOB over MPG or vice versa. But I have yet to find any usable information.

Any help or direction would be appreciated.

Mark
 
Posted Tue 03 Nov 09 @ 9:22 am
VOB uses MPEG2 as it's video compressor, there's no need to convert Vob to Mpeg2. (Unless you want to lower the Bitrate to make a smaller file size) and stay with Mpeg2.

Some folks re-code their videos to Mp4 in order to get an even smaller file which personally I don't recommend unless you have a powerful machine, MPEG2 /Vob uses less computer resources to de-code than does Mp4. (Less chance of a crash or other issues)
 
I just simply rename the .vob to .mpg. Been doin it for years, its just habit.
 
Brian, I knew you can do that but why would you do it?...

VDJ reads both extentions with no problem. What is the advantage of doing this?
 
I dunno Renee, lol, I have just been doin it that way.
 
Some people might convert because they do not have the available hard drive space. With 1 TB drives for under $100 dollars, why would you. I just rip the DVDs each month. Don't have the time to waste converting them. Promo now offers as MP4, but I still prefer to have the DVD as a backup.
 
Thats the thing simply renaming them to .mpg doesnt convert them at all. I had issues in the past with Media player playin vob thats when i renamed them to .mpg. Slipped my mind there for a min Renee.
 


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