[theora] ffmpeg2theora and VOB files

[Jason Self]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:53 AM,  <xiphmont at xiph.org> wrote:
> 2009/11/17 Martin Korytár <mar_kor at klikni.cz>:
>> The previous  matter was in case  commercial VOB files on bought DVD.
>>
>> But by home created DVD from DVD recorder appears by convert from
>> VTS_01_2.VOB to ogv file following massage:
>> Missing picture start code.
>
> VOB files are not necessarily stand alone entities.  They're often
> purpousely split in ways that cause errors if you don't also have the
> data from the end of the preceeding VOB.

It might be useful to check out something like vobcopy or some such
other program to extract a given the full title from a DVD into a
single standalone .vob suitable for feeding to ffmpeg2theora.