In case you’ve been trying to encode VOB files with DVD-HD 2009 and finding that the encoding tool hits 100% but keeps on encoding, here’s a quick rundown on what’s happening:

* first up, the chances are ffmpeg, the encoding engine, is not picking up the run time (duration) of your video file correctly and that’s affecting everything else.

How to fix it

In the short term, there’s no immediate fix and it seems to only happen with some files. With these files, I’ll need to add in the option to manually add in the run time and release an update but that won’t happen for a few days due to some pressing deadlines.

HOWEVER, there is a way I think will work – it’s not pretty – but it should work.

And that’s the encode the video file twice. The first time, let DVD-HD 2009 encode the file even if it says it’s at 100% and still seems to be encoding. If you click on the output tab, you’ll see that ffmpeg is actually still encoding the file. Let it go through it’s two passes and when it’s done, load the new file in and encode it again. This time however, it should show up with the correct duration in the info panel (step 1). From there, you should be able to encode the file and everything should work correctly.

FFmpeg appears to have trouble picking the duration in VOB files at the moment but using this process, which granted is not ideal, should work.

To get the best quality, set the file size to “8.5GB DVD DL capacity” to ensure that ffmpeg uses the highest bit rate to maximise the quality on the first encode. Then when you load this encoded file back in, choose your final disc capacity and it should work.

I’ll work on an update with manual run-time entry and let you know when it’s ready.

UPDATE: Actually, I’ve just given ffmpeg a bum steer. It’s actually not ffmpeg causing the problem but video files that are not correctly annotated with their run time. This seems to happen from VOB files that have been ripped and joined together. If you try playing a file that doesn’t appear to work properly with DVD-HD 2009 on Media Player Classic or Windows Media Player, you’ll find they don’t give the correct run-time either.

The only way around this problem as I mentioned before is to either use some other method of creating the original file or encoding it into a new format and then loading that created file into DVD-HD 2009.

I’ll work on a manual run-time entry option in the meatime.

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