It is odd. Some will import; some won't. They all come from DVDs of sitcom episodes. I know the proper decoders are installed because the DVD files play in all players - in their native format, by navigating to the TS.VOB file at the top of the subdirectory. I found a temporary solution of changing the .VOB to .mpeg, but there is a flaw in that plan: Some VOBs, when changed to .mpeg or .mpg will only have part of the episode on it. I did some research and found that DVD-compliant files have VOBs that must be under 1 GB and any overage spills into another .VOB. This seems to be the root of the problem. When some of files get renamed to .mpeg, I end up with not the whole episode.... and cannot even seem to find the rest of it. Must be buried in one of the other VOBs.

The DVD may have seven episodes on it, but yet I only see six large VOB files of the same size (darn near 1 GB) that would represent one episode and one VOB file about half the size of the others. Changing them all to .mpgs will not work, unless I can figure out where the missing pieces are and splice them together - seems like too much work. Gotta be a better way. When I import as VOB, another window comes up allowing me to put on/take off check marks for the titles I want to import - and there are seven there. But when I try to import the fourth one, it gives me the old -47010 error about the thumbnail and decoder. When I bring them in as mpegs, they come in fine, only that some of the files are incomplete.

Has anybody had this trouble? And is it something to do with the split VOB files that makes Sonic MyDVD (version 6.2) not able to import? And how about this: If I am able to isolate the one episode and it is composed of 2 VOB files, for compliance, will MyDVD be able to splice them together or is there some other program that I should use to do this?