VOB to single MPEG file (uncompressed) - how?

[sudodus]

Thank you all for valuable tips

I'm reading and learning

[evilsoup]

+1 to andrew.46's recommendation to upgrade to a more recent version; ffmpeg & avconv both have very rapid development times, so bugs (maybe even including this problem with A/V sync in those VOBs) are frequently fixed in newer versions that those in the repos.

[MrsUser]

Great to hear that it has all worked out for you . If you are really keen on FFmpeg perhaps look up FakeOutdoorsman's wiki page some time soon, grab a recent version of FFmpeg and delve a little deeper into a truly amazing commandline application...

Do you have a link?

[FakeOutdoorsman]

Do you have a link?

The FFmpeg Community Contributed Documentation Wiki contains all sorts of guides and examples to supplement the official FFmpeg documentation in a more user-friendly and step-by-step format.

[MrsUser]

The FFmpeg Community Contributed Documentation Wiki contains all sorts of guides and examples to supplement the official FFmpeg documentation in a more user-friendly and step-by-step format.

Thanks! It's a great guide. Just what I need. I really like how efficient the results are with the command line. I wouldn't use it for stuff like cropping though, but for basic transcoding it's very straightforward and fast.

[FakeOutdoorsman]

I really like how efficient the results are with the command line. I wouldn't use it for stuff like cropping though

Cropping via command line is easy once you try it a few times, and you can use ffplay to get a quick preview. Imagine this input is 640x480 and I want to remove 40 pixels: 20 from the top and 20 from the bottom to make an output of 640x440:

ffplay -i input -vf crop=iw:ih-40

Is same as:

ffplay -i input -vf crop=640:480-40

Is same as:

ffplay -i input -vf crop=640:440

Then you can use ffmpeg to crop and re-encode the video and copy the audio stream since you don't need to process it which can preserve quality and is faster than encoding:

ffmpeg -i input -vf crop=iw:ih-40 -codec:v libx264 -crf 23 -preset medium -codec:a copy output.mkv

See the filtering introduction and crop documentation for more examples.