vob2any

Simple windows shell/js script for converting VIDEO_TS VOBS to any single-file video format (MKV, MP4..). I've developed this for my father-in-law, who wanted to transcode his old family videos to a newer single-file format. Therefore I made the script working via windows context (rightclicking on video_ts) and immediately invoking the transcoding action.

Get started

• Create a new entry in Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\
• As command add cmd /k node "ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_YOUR_REPO\index.js" %1
• In the git repo execute npm i to get the needed libraries

How to use

• Rightclick on VIDEO_TS Folder
• a temporary single VOB file is being created utilizing the binary stream-copy from windows
• this file then gets encoded with ffmpeg-static library shipped with this script

How does it work or why does it not work?

• I try to only consider the files in form of VTS_01_1.VOB or VTS_01_2.VOB with a filesize greater than 0 so that I can get rid of the typical index file VTS_01_0.VOB, which contains no video material. File ending .vob is also processed. Any other file like metadata, chapter etc. is not considered by this script (maybe a further todo, but there is then no chance to use a simple mp4 container, need to switch to team matroska I guess).
• Right now I hardcoded the encoding flags in the index.js (libx264 as video codec and 192k aac audio bitrate which fulfills most of the needs): feel free to adapt it according your needs.

Requirements

• node v.12.18