VOB to TIFF Converter

How to Convert VOB to TIFF Online

1. Upload Your VOB File: Drag and drop the .VOB file from your DVD's VIDEO_TS folder, or click "+ Add Files" to pick it from disk. Batch upload is supported, and files over 1 GB (common for VOBs split at the DVD-Video 1 GB segment limit) are accepted.
2. Pick a Quality Preset and Compression Type: Default is "Very High" quality, the print-recommended balance; drop to "High" or "Medium" for smaller files. The Compression Type dropdown defaults to JPEG inside the TIFF wrapper — useful for visual review, but switch it to LZW or Deflate if you need pixel-accurate archival output. There is no Conversion Quality (DPI) box on this path.
3. Choose Frame Selection and Resolution (Optional): Use "Specific Frame" with a Time (seconds) input to grab one still at a chosen timestamp, or "Multiple Screenshots" with a framerate dropdown (e.g. 1 frame per second) to extract a sequence. Resolution defaults to "Keep original" (typically 720x480 NTSC or 720x576 PAL); choose a Preset Resolution up to 4320p (8K) to upscale, or set width/height in pixels or percent.
4. Convert and Download: Click "Convert". Each frame downloads as a separate .tif file — no watermark, no sign-up, no installs.

Why Convert VOB to TIFF?

VOB (Video Object) is the DVD-Video container holding MPEG-2 video at 720x480 (NTSC) or 720x576 (PAL), MPEG/AC-3 audio, subtitles, and navigation data inside a VIDEO_TS folder. TIFF (Tagged Image File Format), originally released by Aldus in 1986 and now stewarded by Adobe, is the standard archival raster format — it supports lossless LZW/ZIP compression, 8/16-bit channels, CMYK, multi-page documents, and embedded metadata. Pulling stills out of a VOB into TIFF is the right workflow whenever you need a frame that survives editing, printing, or long-term storage without recompression artifacts.

• Archive family DVDs as photos — Pull a hero frame from each chapter of a wedding or graduation DVD and save it as TIFF for albums, prints, or photo books. The MPEG-2 source maxes out around 720x480, so 300 DPI prints look best at roughly 6x4 inches or smaller without interpolation.
• Print stills from DVD masters — Magazines, posters, and exhibition prints want TIFF because most print RIPs and Adobe InDesign workflows assume TIFF for raster artwork. JPG is rejected by many print shops for cover or feature spreads.
• Forensic and surveillance review — DVD-Video evidence often arrives on disc as VOB. TIFF preserves every pixel of the chosen frame without the generational loss JPEG accumulates each time the file is annotated and resaved.
• Document scans recorded to DVD — Older office and library workflows burned scanned book pages or microfilm transfers to DVD as MPEG-2. Converting back to TIFF restores the format expected by OCR engines like ABBYY FineReader and Tesseract.
• Storyboards and thumbnail sheets — Extract one frame per second with "Multiple Screenshots" to build a contact-sheet of an entire DVD chapter for an editor, animator, or film studies class.
• Feeding restoration pipelines — Tools like Topaz Video AI, DaVinci Resolve, and Photoshop's Camera Raw expect lossless TIFF input. Going VOB→TIFF avoids the MPEG-2→JPEG→TIFF double-compression chain.

VOB vs Common Video and Image Container Targets

Quality Preset and Output Size Guide

Frequently Asked Questions

Why does my exported TIFF look soft compared to the DVD playing on TV?

DVD-Video stores 720x480 (NTSC) or 720x576 (PAL) frames using 4:2:0 chroma subsampling, and most DVDs are interlaced. On a TV, two fields are woven and motion-interpolated; in a still image you only see one frame's worth of data. Choose a frame on a motion-light scene — the converter applies no deinterlacing pass, so a frame grabbed during motion keeps its comb artifacts. For interlaced footage that combs throughout, deinterlace the VOB in a desktop editor first and export the TIFF from that.

Can I extract every frame of the VOB, not just one?

Yes. Switch from "Specific Frame" to "Multiple Screenshots" and set the framerate dropdown. Picking "1 frame per second" gives you one TIFF per second of video; the dropdown also supports denser sampling if you need every Nth frame. For a full one-to-one dump of every encoded frame in an MPEG-2 stream (typically 29.97 fps NTSC or 25 fps PAL), expect thousands of TIFFs per minute of source.

Should I pick JPEG-in-TIFF or a lossless compression?

JPEG-in-TIFF (the default Compression Type) gives you a smaller file that still opens in any TIFF reader, but it re-encodes the already-lossy MPEG-2 frame and is unsuitable for archival or print masters. For archival, switch the TIFF compression to LZW (lossless, widely compatible) or ZIP/Deflate (lossless, better ratio on photographic data, especially at 16-bit). Uncompressed TIFF is the safest format for ancient software but produces the largest files.

Will the audio from the VOB be saved?

No — TIFF is a still-image format with no audio channel. If you need the soundtrack, convert the VOB to MP3 or WAV separately. Many DVDs use AC-3 (Dolby Digital) or MPEG-1 Layer II audio inside the VOB, and our audio converters handle both.

What's the difference between .tif and .tiff?

Nothing — they're the same format. The 3-letter .tif extension dates back to 8.3 filenames on DOS/Windows 3.x, and .tiff came later when long filenames arrived. Both are valid TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) and open in every major image editor. We offer separate URLs for VOB to TIFF and VOB to TIF for users who type either spelling.

My DVD has a VIDEO_TS.VOB, VTS_01_1.VOB, VTS_01_2.VOB... which one do I upload?

The numbered VTS_xx_y.VOB files contain the actual movie or episode content, split into roughly 1 GB chunks because the DVD-Video spec caps each VOB at 1,073,741,824 bytes. VIDEO_TS.VOB is the menu/intro, often empty. Upload the segment that contains the timestamp you want the frame from; you can batch all the VTS_01_*.VOB files together if you're not sure which segment your scene lives in.

Can I use this for copy-protected commercial DVDs?

Most commercial DVDs use CSS encryption, which prevents direct VOB ripping by design — you'd need a DVD ripper that decrypts CSS before any conversion tool sees the file. We accept VOB files that are already decrypted (your personal home-made DVDs, unencrypted backups, or VOBs your DVD authoring tool produced). Don't bypass copy protection on content you don't own the rights to.

Is the output really TIFF or just a renamed JPG?

It's a real TIFF — encoded with libtiff-equivalent tooling on the server, including proper IFD (Image File Directory) tags, optional LZW/ZIP/JPEG compression, and the correct bit depth (8-bit by default for VOB sources, since MPEG-2 is 8-bit YCbCr). You can verify by opening in Photoshop, GIMP, or running exiftool yourfile.tif — it'll report TIFF with the chosen compression method.

How is this different from a screen grab of VLC playing the DVD?

VLC's snapshot uses the on-screen rendered frame, which has already been deinterlaced, scaled to your monitor, color-converted to your display profile, and (usually) saved as PNG or JPG. Going VOB→TIFF directly skips all that: it pulls the decoded frame from the MPEG-2 stream at its native resolution and writes the pixel data into TIFF untouched — no deinterlacing, no display scaling, no monitor colour profile. The result preserves more of the original signal and is reproducible across runs; the trade-off is that interlaced motion frames keep their combing, which VLC's playback deinterlacer would have hidden.