Options for PGC indexing?

[Gew]

Greets.

I hope I've chosen the right board for this message. However, let me get to the point. I've come to realize that wizard-utils (i.e. FairUse, AutoGK) uses internal(?) supplements to capture the appropriate chain for the i.e. movie to rip.

Now I've discovered VirtualDubMod, and come to love it, might I add. A wonderful little application that gives lots of options when it comes to syncing/merging audio tracks, aswell as adding filters like crops etc to the project video.

So, using azid.exe respectively lame.exe with the unplugged AC3 sound, I have no issues with "transcoding" the audio into MP3. The issue comes to.. like the topic indicates.. the PGC index.

The encrypted/not encrypted is not really the point here, because there are pretty simple solutions on that matter. The point is the bare de facto of the ProGram Chain index. I can load "raw" .VOB files into VDB. However, a typical movie is splitted into a bounce of .VOB's (which it kind of logical, due to fs regulations). Anyways. What to do.

I have found one possible "work-around", if I even get to call it that, 'cuz it's really not entirely free of flaws. It goes like this. I just merge the .VOB's into one by a batch copy command through DOS prompt. Then.. I can load the huge VOB into VirtualDubMod and do the stuffs (i.e. render audio; transcode audio; re-add audio; encode..).

However..

Most films contain some elements of "crap" that does not really come with the movie. For instance, a splash-screen promoting the "local level" DVD film supplier. Also, I've often gotten a rapid-movement set of frames containing the copyright-info that is normally shown in slowmo either before or after playback of the one(!) film element.

Gash, I must not have made myself complicated. I suppose you get the drill though. When I use one-click-does-it-all apps like FairUse, it seems to have some sort of internal engine that wraps the PGC index correct. It has actually never failed.

So, what I need to know is what is the best stand-alone util for this matter? And more important, how does it work? Do I need to have some util put together a AVS script that simply just playback the desired parts of all .VOBs? Seems kinda time-occupying, there must be some simplified way.

So, what does the hitchhiker's guide say about this..?

Very thankful for all answers.

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Regards,,
Carlito.

[manono]

Just decrypt what you want in the first place, rather than the entire DVD. Or, if you've decrypted the whole DVD to the hard drive already, then use DVD Shrink or PGCDemux to get just the PGC you want.

[Gew]

".. to get just the PGC you want. "

What a marvelous summary on what my post was really looking for. DVDShrink seemed much easier, with a GUI that renders possible preview. So, what I did now was to to chose "Reauthor mode" in DVDShrink. Then I took just the "film part" of the chain, meaning the ~2h I get by pressing PLAY MOVIE in the DVD menus. Then I disabled the 1gb-chunk-splitting and chose Backup to hdd.

This is where I'm currently at. 49% .. tic tac tic tac.. I must say I feel pretty excited about the sequeala on this preoject Meaning success/failure on loading the projected baaauta-huge whole-movie.VOB into VDB. If this will work, I'll feel like a real CHAMP for the rest of the month.

I've always been kind of not optimistic about the whole thing of ripping DVD's manually. It's been so many diferent methods on all these web bulletin boards. Easy DVDRipper, .AVS scripts, DVD2AVI, blah blah, VDB, then some oldschoolisch NanDub, and back to VDB, blah blah.

Now if this will work, I will draw the simple conclusion that all you really need to rip a DVD into 699mb.AVI is: VirtualDubmod, Lame.exe, Azid.exe & DVDShrink. Oh, the accurate VfW codecs then of course

Anyways, this is gonna be real interesting..

[Gew]

Worked like a charm.
Life itself is indeed marvelous.