Hi. I have a pretty much finished mpeg that has one small problem. There are three frames (right at the end and beginning of adjoining vob's from the original DVD) that are messed up. The first is weirdly split in half, as if it's two frames sandwiched together. The other two have pretty irritating digital blocks all over them. I tried ripping the DVD again and had the same problem (not to mention, one other vob was unusable for the last 30 seconds, but I got around that already).

What I'm looking for is either a filter (like for Virtualdub) that helps with problems like this, or some method that would allow me to edit the frames in Photoshop, generate bitmaps, and import them into the movie in place of the bad frames. I wouldn't usually bother with this but for just three frames it seems like it would be fairly easy.

As long as I'm asking, I'm also curious: is this sort of problem common? I've noticed Smartripper (my primary ripping program) does a pretty decent job, but there are often issues like this with one or two of the vob files. DVD Shrink took longer and gave me basically the same results. I'm kind of new to all of this, but I can't really figure out why vob's that play fine on the DVD come over to my computer with all these problems in them.

Thanks for your help.