.VOB File Name Extension - DVD Video Object Files

This section describes what is .vob file name extension or DVD video object file.

.vob is the file name extension for DVD-Video Object files. A VOB file contains the stream data for a movie formatted as multiplexed video stream, audio streams, and subtitle streams.

The format of a VOB file is MPEG-2 (Moving Picture Experts Group) standardized by ISO as ISO/IEC 13818.

VOB files on a DVD-Video disc are automatically fetched and decoded by the DVD player machine, or DVD player application on a computer.

A standalone VOB file can be opened and played by DVD player applications like Media Player Classic.

On a DVD movie disc, you may see more that one VOB files, because a movie video is usually divided into VOB files with 1,073,709,056 bytes or less.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Format

 Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Players

 Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Rip Music

 WAV Audio File Format

 MP3, MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, Encoding Format

 Burning MP3 Music to Audio CD

 Windows Sound Recorder

 ISO 9660 Standard for Data CD

 Recording Data on CD

 VCD (Video CD) Standard

 DVD (Digital Video Disc) Standard Format

 TOC (Table Of Contents) on CDs

 IsoBuster - A Nice CD GUI Tool

 MPlayer - The Movie Player

 vStrip - Rip and Manipulate DVD VOB Files

 mpgtx - Manipulating MPEG Files

CD/DVD - File Name Extension and Format Types

 .MP3 File Name Extension - MP3 Files

 .WAV File Name Extension - WAV Files

 .WMA File Name Extension - Windows Media Audio Files

 .ISO File Name Extension - ISO Files

 .DAT File Name Extension - VCD Media Files

 .INF File Name Extension - AUTORUN.INF Files

 .IFO File Name Extension - DVD Information Files

.VOB File Name Extension - DVD Video Object Files

 .AVI File Name Extension - Audio Video Interleave Files

 .MPG File Name Extension - MPEG Files

 References

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