Demuxing, Remuxing and Authoring
1 video with TurboVOB



Software informations

See the program home page

Purpose

We will use it to prepare an imported video file from the DTH7000 for burning.
It will demux, remux and author the file to end up with a complete DVD folder named VIDEO_TS.

Instructions


Open TurboVOB (obviously it should has been installed first).

The program is made to be able to run automatically several tasks after they has been defined.
In this instructions guide we will only focus on operations needed to create only one task and running it.

Click on the [Add task...] button to start defining a task. One task is a succession of basic operations (demuxing and/or remuxing and/or authoring...).
A browser will enable you to choose your original source file to process. It could be a VOB file (as in our example and most of the time), but for some specific uses, previously demuxed streams (.m2v file) can be opened too.

opening a video


After validation, a new windows appears : It's the task manager form. This form will help you to define accuratly what you want to do on this video.
It contains various fields mainly to enter file locations. It should has been previously filled from the first file location you choosed, but you are still welcome to modify location for any files, temporary or not, as you want.
In our example, we will do all needed basic operations, with file locations as defined by default. The full process will generates some temporary files. We will ask to delete them (the default is no deletion of temporary files).
Once it is done, we will define some chapter locations. This chapter list can be also imported from a txt file if you have one available. Remember that DTHexplorer automatically generates Celltimes.txt file for each video with chapters every 5min. You can use it here, it is made for that.
Validate your choice.


task manager form

The task list now contains a first task = 1 line.
If you move your cursor on this line, a hint should appears which summarise all basic operations defined in this task.
At this step you can add other tasks to be done, by repeating previous steps on other videos. The list of task should then increase.
But for our example, we will limit our use to only one task : The full process of one video.
The program is ready to start, so click [start tasks].



start the task


Once the task is started, an arrow icon is placed in front of the task currently being executed and a progress bar is displayed at the bottom. Some time later some command line windows should appears successively for each basic operation in progress. TurboVOB doesn't do the job alone. In fact it's a GUI for command line softwares. Command line windows shows you that these external softwares works.

in progress

Whan the task is finished, your VIDEO_TS folder should be ready inside the folder you choosed as destination folder in the task manager form.
TurboVOB automatically display it's log file for you to control that everything went correctly (check that no error or warning is written inside).

And that's it !



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