Convert VOB files to DAT

How can I convert VOB files for DAT? Hit the upper Browse... button next to Input File Name field to select VOB files. In the opened Windows Explorer window, browse for the necessary .VOB file. You may also click + button or use drag-and-drop to add multiple VOB files to convert from VOB files to DAT.

A VOB file (Video Object) is a container format in DVD-Video media. VOB can contain video, audio, subtitle and menu contents multiplexed together into a stream form. Other DVD files include IFO and BUP files. BUP files are exact copy and backup of a IFO files in case of corruption. IFO files basically contain all the information a DVD player needs to know about a DVD so that the user can navigate and play all DVD content properly.

How do I convert VOB files to DAT then? Click TO MPEG button on VOB files to DAT converter main panel. It means you want to convert VOB files to DAT. Click Browse... button to browse for a proper output folder.

Click the drop-down list next to MPEG profile to select a preset DAT profile for the output .DAT file. Click Edit... button to set more details, if you want to customize the parameters of your selected profile.

DAT is used to refer to a certain tape backup format. But in audio/video terminology it normally refers to files that VideoCD has in its SEGMENT or MPEGAV directiories. These DAT files are basically MPEG-1 files with an additional information and certain specific file structure -- they are NOT real MPEG-1 files and you need to convert them back to real MPEG-1 files in order to edit them even that most of the software players treat them as regular MPEG-1 files.

After you have set up all the VOB files to DAT conversion parameters, hit the big button Convert to start converting VOB files to DAT format.

And the processing bar will show you how fast and where the VOB files to DAT conversion process is. That's all about how to convert VOB files to DAT. Best software to convert VOB files to DAT, OJOsoft Total Video Converter, makes VOB files convert to DAT as easy as ABC.