Missing VIDEO_TS.VOB file

[vtcom]

I'm trying rip 2 Fast 2 Furious DVD-9 using DVD Decrypter but there wasn't any "VIDEO_TS.VOB" file to be ripped. All there is were the .IFO and the .BUP file. No errors found in there as it rips it directly to my hard disk. With DVD Shrink, it found that the "VIDEO_TS.VOB" file was simply not in my hard disk nor the DVD and the whole operation jst ended.

So, what I did was since I've already decrypted the movie and I just need to shrink the main movie, I copied "VTS_04_01.VOB" file which was the DTS Landscape intro from the movie, then renamed it to "VIDEO_TS.VOB" and overwritten the orginal one from my hard disk.

The funny thing was that ASUS DVD XP and my standalone DVD player played it well with the DTS Lanscape intro being the first to played, then it gets to the Title Menu.

Have any of you newbies and experts encountered this before?

[petar]

Can't speak for other markets, but in Spain the DVD has the VIDEO_TS.VOB file with warnings in Spanish and in English, one logo and a short clip from the shooting.

A DVD is not required to have the VIDEO_TS.VOB file. What's strange in your case is that when you copy another VOB file as a VIDEO_TS.VOB it plays it (though you got a bit lucky there). That means that the VMG was meant to play a video so the VIDEO_TS.VOB file is certainly missing. DVD Shrink reads the DVD structure when you open it so if it complained that's another proof that you're missing a file.

You mention that you renamed VTS_04_1.VOB to VIDEO_TS.VOB and overwritten the original. What original? I thought there wasn't one. You also mention that after playing the intro it gets to the Title Menu. This doesn't make sense. The title menu is always in the VIDEO_TS.VOB file. The VTS_04_1.VOB file can't have a title menu.

When you ripped did you select all files? DVD Decrypter has the option to select main movie + IFOs. Maybe that's what you ripped? Open the original DVD with Windows Explorer and see what's in there. The VIDEO_TS.VOB file should be there.

[vtcom]

You mention that you renamed VTS_04_1.VOB to VIDEO_TS.VOB and overwritten the original. What original? I thought there wasn't one.

Heh... My mistake there, there wasn't any VIDEO_TS.VOB that I've overwritten, created so many authoring stuffs that this one made me confused. But indeed I've created a VIDEO_TS.VOB from an existing VTS_04_01.VOB file by renaming it.

When you ripped did you select all files? DVD Decrypter has the option to select main movie + IFOs. Maybe that's what you ripped? Open the original DVD with Windows Explorer and see what's in there. The VIDEO_TS.VOB file should be there.

Even before I started to decrypt the movie, DVD Decrypter scans the DVD first and the VIDEO_TS.VOB wasn't to be found nor seen. That goes the same way in Windows Explorer. Well, all I needed was the main movie and by using DVDx, it managed to rip everything in this movie by opening it's .VOB file. Thanks Petar, although it's really weird and funny but life must go on.