Cannot remove DVD cells

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Hi,

I would appreciate your advice on the following.

I have a PAL DVD backup (just VOBs). When I open it in PGCEdit, I see that the two first cells are dead (when I click them and open, they do not play). If I remove them, PGCEdit gives error message (below). If I ignore the message and save the backup with the two cells removed, I see the cells (DVD menu picture though there is no DVD menu in the backup) when I play it with DVDShrink or NeroPlayer.

Initially the backup had VTS_01_0.VOB that was the DVD menu picture (one of the dead cells that I see in PGCEdit). I deleted it before creating IFOs with IfoEdit.

May be this creates the problem? If this causes the problem, what should I do to remove it as I do not need the menu. Thank you!

[guns1inger]

If you don't need menus, load the DVD into DVD Shrink, click on Re-author, then drag the titles you want to keep from the left to the right-hand pane. Click Backup to save the results to your HDD.

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guns1inger, thanks

But the backup is just VOBs. There are no IFO, BUP and other stuff. It does not open in DVDShrink as is.

[guns1inger]

You could try authoring with Rejig, or using VOB2MPG to extract the video and audio streams, then re-authoring with GUIForDVDAuthor. All of these are free tools.

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Thank you! I will give it a try.

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guns1inger,

I used VOB2MPG and I've got one mpg file that includes both video and audio.

But GUIForDVDAuthor does not see the mpg file. Am I doing something wrong or I need another tool? Thank you!

[Bjs]

A problem .

Vobedit , load first vob of title , then demux .
Select all four options below in lower box , and select a folder for output .
If that fails , you may need to demux , stream by stream , they are clearly indicated with id's .

One thing to be carefull of are titles that may include such tricks which "without a paddle" includes , and those that may be multiangled .

For those , its demux using the same process for vobedit , but use only "by cell id" , when done , play each cell to determine who belongs , and which ones do not , delete those that dont , rename those that do in the correct order .

Cell 0 becomes vts_01_000
Cell 1 becomes vts_01_001

Cell 10 becomes vts_01_010
ect .

Open vts_01_000 in vobedit , edit , join cell vob files , select new location for output .

When done , ifoedit can regenerate the required files , ifos and bups .

Ifoedit > button "create ifos" > under output stream , select folder containing title , and check box "same as source"
As for the above options , create 1 pgc only , the other , create chapter for each cell , would be safer .

Once their done , you need to correct particulars about video , audio , subtitles , and save .

Mediainfo : http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/br can give you the video parameters required , and inform you of what others are contained , same as vobedit can .

But as for knowing which language the audios and subtitles belong to can take a bit longer , as the info is retained in the original ifos and bups , which nolonger exist .

You need to play back the title , and decide what language they would have used in the original ifos .

Then open the ifo's in ifoedit , and make changes to both ifo's for audio languages , and subtitle languages and save both ifo's .

Your remaining issues would be those video options in both ifo's related to "static"

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Note :

If vobedit was sucessfull at stream processing , and no funny bussiness as mentioned before exists in the title , you can jump straight to ifoedits "reauthoring mode" , and fix up the other info related to video , audio language , and subtitle languages later .

Showing video detail from vob using vobedit .

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Thank you! I will try it this way.

[gsing]

ButGUIForDVDAuthor does not see the mpg file.

Which authoring-engine do you use in GfD? If it's Muxman switch over to dvdauthor in 'settings' > 'Permanent'. Then GfD should at least 'see' the mpegs.
Regards

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Hi,

Thanks for the advice. Yes, now it "sees" the mpg file but once I drag the file into conversion area, I get error message. What does it mean? Can it be corrected or I can just ignore it?

When I play the mpg file with MPC, I see a sort of two streams: the movie and something like extra material about creating the movie. The second appears for a sec and goes during the movie playback.

Thank you!

[gsing]

Did you try to author the mpeg with GfD, did it work?
What you could try to get rid of the error-message is demux the file with PVAStrumento. Then drag the resulting videostream (.mpv) to GfD workspace, but you should try first to author anyway.
Regards

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gsing,

Thank you very much! It "sess" the file but it gives the error message (above).

But I've found the way around: I've found another backup and this way "fixed" the problem. Thank you for your time.