DivX to VOB

Convert DivX to VOB files for playback on DVD player

Many people may find great difficulties in understanding the differences from DivX, Xvid and AVI. DivX is a closed source commercial encoder aiming to bring you the best performing MPEG4 video encoder in terms of speed, quality and reliability - accessible to all and with certified hardware support. XviD is an open-source MPEG4 video encoder development project which focuses more on features then on reliability, speed and accessibility. That is not to say it is unreliable or slow, but when you download an XviD build you get the latest development efforts, be they fully functional or otherwise. Both coders are very well developed and as both are available at no monetary cost you are free to experiment with each. The main difference people cite regarding XviD and DivX is the release schedule. AVI is a container. It's not a coder/decoder. AVI contains only information that describes how the data is included in file and how to decompress video and audio (which codec to use). MPEG4 is a compressor. Video data can be compressed with MPEG-4. AVI can have any type of codec (or no codec even) for compression, CinePak, Indeo, Huffyuv, etc, whilst a "MPEG4 'file'" specifically denotes any AVI file that uses an MPEG4 codec (i.e, DivX).

If you want to watch your favorite DivX files on your DVD player, you may need to convert DivX to VOB, and then you could easily burn VOB file to DVD. VOB stands for Video Object. VOB files are the important part of DVD, which contain the actual Video, Audio, Subtitle and Menu content in stream form.

If you wish to burn the VOB files to a standard DVDR disc, you need to have all the other standard DVD files as well, including IFO and BUP files. IFO files contain the formatting information of the VOB files, which tells the DVD player exactly how the DVD should be played. BUP files are backups for IFO files, which are needed if the IFO files get corrupted. During the software below, some can not only convert DivX to VOB but also burn VOB files to DVD for playback on your DVD player, Super DVD Creator for example.