VOB to TIFF Converter

How to Convert VOB to TIFF Online

1. Upload Your VOB File: Drag and drop or click "+ Add Files" to select VOB files from your DVD's VIDEO_TS folder (e.g., VTS_01_1.VOB). Batch upload is supported, and DVDs that split a single title across VTS_01_1.VOB, VTS_01_2.VOB, etc. can each be processed.
2. Pick Conversion Quality and Frame: Default DPI is 300 DPI (High Quality / Print Recommended); pick 600 DPI or 1200 DPI for archival, 150 DPI for screen. Under Frame Selection, choose Specific Frame with a time in seconds (e.g., 2.500 for the frame at 2.5s), or Multiple Screenshots to extract one frame per second / interval. Set Quality Preset to Very High (Recommended) for clean stills.
3. Resize, Set Compression, or Background (Optional): Pick a Preset Resolution (768p default, up to 4320p) or scale by percentage (default 80%). Set Compression Type (JPEG for smaller TIFFs, leave off for fully lossless), set Bit Depth (8-bit default; 16-bit for grading), and pick a background color if your VOB has letterboxing you want to flatten.
4. Convert and Download: Click Convert. Files process on our servers — no sign-up, no watermark, no DVD-rip plugin install required.

Why Convert VOB to TIFF?

VOB (Video Object) is the container DVD-Video uses on every retail and home-burned disc since the format's launch in Japan on October 19, 1996. It carries MPEG-2 Part 2 video at up to 9.80 Mbit/s (typically 4–8 Mbit/s), at 720x480 (NTSC, 29.97 fps) or 720x576 (PAL, 25 fps) — often interlaced. Discs split a single title into 1 GB VTS_xx_y.VOB chunks because the UDF DVD filesystem caps file size at 1 GiB. TIFF is the right destination when you need a single frame as a master image: it stores uncompressed or losslessly compressed 8-bit or 16-bit pixels with no generational loss, which JPG and the original MPEG-2 stream both lack.

• DVD archival and preservation — Libraries, museums, and family historians extract title cards, chapter stills, and key frames from VOB to TIFF for long-term storage. TIFF is one of the formats the Library of Congress lists as preferred for still-image preservation, while VOB and MPEG-2 are not.
• Print and publication stills — Editorial use of a DVD frame (book cover, magazine spread, academic paper) needs 300 DPI lossless input. A 720x480 NTSC frame upscaled to 1200 DPI archival is the workflow journals expect.
• Forensics and evidence handling — Surveillance and dashcam systems still write VOB to backup DVDs. Investigators export specific timestamps (Specific Frame with seconds input) as TIFF so the still survives compression-free through court exhibits and case files.
• Restoration and color grading — Pulling 16-bit TIFFs from a DVD master lets a colorist work in DaVinci Resolve or Photoshop without re-encoding MPEG-2 macroblocks every pass.
• Cataloging and content ID — Studios building shot catalogs need one TIFF per scene. Multiple Screenshots at 1 frame/second turns a 90-minute VOB into 5,400 indexed stills.
• OCR on burned-in subtitles or credits — Set DPI to 400 DPI (Small Text / OCR) so Tesseract or ABBYY can read sub-pixel character strokes that a 720p JPG would smear.

VOB vs TIFF — Format Comparison

TIFF Compression Quick Guide

Frequently Asked Questions

Why does my VOB look interlaced when I pull a TIFF frame?

DVD-Video supports both interlaced and progressive sources, and most consumer NTSC/PAL discs are 480i / 576i. Two adjacent frames are interleaved into one frame's odd and even fields, so a still extracted from a moving subject shows comb teeth. The fix is to deinterlace the source before extracting — desktop tools call this yadif or Bob — or to pick a frame from a static scene. Our converter samples whole frames; if you need field-perfect output for restoration, run the VOB through a deinterlacer first.

How do I get a frame at an exact second from a VOB?

Pick Specific Frame and enter the time in seconds in the input — 12.250 grabs the frame at 12 seconds and 250 milliseconds. DVD MPEG-2 streams encode roughly 1 keyframe (I-frame) every 12–15 frames, so we decode the nearest GOP fully and seek to your exact requested time so the still is accurate, not snapped to the keyframe.

Should I pick LZW, ZIP, or no compression for the TIFF?

For 8-bit output from a 720x480 VOB frame, LZW and ZIP give similar 30–50% reductions and both are lossless — pick LZW for maximum software compatibility (every TIFF reader since the 1990s opens it). If you're outputting 16-bit TIFF for grading, use ZIP — LZW's dictionary approach can actually enlarge 16-bit files because of high-entropy lower bits. For preservation masters where size doesn't matter, store uncompressed.

What's the maximum resolution I can output?

The converter offers presets up to 4320p (8K), but upscaling a 720x480 NTSC VOB frame to 4320p is just interpolation — there is no extra detail past the source 345,600 pixels. Output at native source resolution for archival, or upscale to 2160p (4K) for print only when the layout demands it. For OCR or text recovery, prefer increasing DPI (400 or 600) at native pixel dimensions rather than scaling resolution.

Can I batch-extract frames from a multi-VOB title?

Yes. Upload VTS_01_1.VOB, VTS_01_2.VOB, and VTS_01_3.VOB together — they're processed in order with the same settings. The 1 GiB DVD chunk boundary is a filesystem artifact, not a content break, so a chapter that spans two VOBs will still produce continuous frame samples if you use Multiple Screenshots.

How big will my TIFF files be?

A single uncompressed 8-bit 720x480 RGB TIFF is roughly 1.0 MB; the same frame upscaled to 1920x1080 is about 6.2 MB; 3840x2160 (4K) is about 25 MB. LZW or ZIP typically trims 30–50% off the 8-bit numbers. For 16-bit output (recommended only for grading workflows), double those figures.

Do I need to rip the DVD first or can I upload from disc?

You need to copy the .VOB files off the disc to your local drive (or a USB stick) before uploading — browsers cannot directly read optical media. Open the VIDEO_TS folder on the DVD and copy VTS_xx_y.VOB files to a folder, then drag them in. Commercial DVDs with CSS encryption need a separate decryption pass first; we do not bypass CSS or other DRM.

Should I convert the whole VOB to video or just extract frames?

If you want stills (one or many), this page is the right path for TIFF; for JPG stills use VOB to JPG, and for transparent PNG output use VOB to PNG. If you actually want the whole movie as a modern video file, use VOB to MP4 instead, then extract stills from the MP4. If you'd rather make an animated thumbnail, see VOB to GIF. When your TIFF outputs run too large for storage, compress TIFF repacks them with ZIP without quality loss.

Does the converter handle AC-3 or DTS audio in the VOB?

VOB carries multiplexed audio (AC-3, DTS, MPEG-1 Layer II, or LPCM) alongside the MPEG-2 video stream. Since TIFF is image-only, we ignore the audio track entirely during decode — no extra setup required, and there's no audio quality concern for the output.