Importing DVD VOB files

[Smitty]

I have a set of VOB file of my sisters wedding. When i load them up they only load the first 26 seconds. Do i have to do somehting to load the whole file or have these files not been catered for ?

[PaulusMaximus]

I’ve just searched VOB in the forum and it returns :-

.vob file import size limitation

I’ve been using SHOTCUT for some months now. I’m systematically converting my family video DVD’s to MP4 (H.264) but I have found I can’t import my (non macrovision protected) .vob files fully into SHOTCUT. I only get 15 minutes or so of a 29 minute file to load into SHOTCUT. I’m running the latest version as of September 2017. I have a solution but it’s not ideal as I lose definition. I use WINFF to convert the the .vob files to basic .MP4. It does the job quickly and renders it to a smaller fil…

[Austin]

What happens if you go to the Properties panel for the VOB clip and manually change the Duration to be the actual length of the video?

[ngc451]

Hi Austin, I did not consider that at the time (2017). It’s a great suggestion and over the coming days I’ll try and give it a whirl. I finished my archive using Shotcut’s fabulous program but I may redo for the reason already mentioned, to be clear the definition is somewhat poor. Great suggestion, many thanks for your valued thoughts and interest.