Damn DVD Camcorders!!!

Have you ever seen those new camcorders that record directly to a mini dvd? well my dad saw one after our old panasonic one(one that used Hi8 tapes) broke. That meant that when i wanted to extract videos from the camcorder my old software was useless. And the new sony camcorder recorded the videos in VRO files. WTF? what the hell is that?


After extensive research on that matter i figured out how to convert from VRO files to VOB files which are just regular DVD files. The VOB files can be made into any other format you want with easy tools(Windows Movie Maker for one).

Now back to converting from VRO to VOB
1. First of all download this program called "Vobtool006"
2. Rename the VRO file to a VOB extention
3. Open Vobtool and browse to the renamed file
4. check the box called "Join Extracted Segments"
5. Click the "Extract Segments" button and as soon as the program finishes you end up with a VOB file.

Note: I know Vobtool can be really hard to find. I had to get it off of a french website. Ill try to post it on blogger. If I figure out how to do it, ill update this post.