What is VOB format?
Video Object
A VOB file (Video Object) is a container format contained in DVD-Video media. VOB is based on MPEG-2 program stream format, but with additional limitations and specifications in the private streams. It contains the actual Video, Audio, Subtitle, and Menu contents in stream form.
What can play a VOB file?
You can play most VOB files using VLC Player, which is available for all major operating systems. You can also use MPC-HC in Windows, which functions very similarly. If you have a Plex media server, converting the VOB files to MKV format will make it easier to stream them without losing quality.
Why are VOB files so big?
The large files are needed all because this are the videos itself (including audio). They’re different in length because the video codecs work with variable bit length encoding. Therefore the same amount of images are encoded in different sized files.
Is VOB a word?
(Video OBbjects) A DVD movie file that contains MPEG video and AC-3 or other audio data. Audio streams for multiple languages are multiplexed together.
Are VOB files bigger than MP4?
since the quality of encoding has improved a lot in recent times… and is comparable to vobs. Secondly the file size is drastically smaller than VOBs which means that a lot more files in terms of hard drive space. mp4 does not mean it is more compressed then mpeg2 (or any format for that matter).