Derrows Guide - DVD Ripping Problem

[marcovan]

I have been using Derrows guide to DVD ripping. I am using IFOEDit as he describes to play to gather the title information. The problem I am running into is when I open the VIDEO_TS folder with IFOEDIT and then press DVDPLAY as instructed, the 20th Century Fox logo apperars with the following message, THIS DISC IS NOT FORMATTED TO PLAY IN THIS REGION. This is using the VIDEO_TS folder I ripped into. The movie in questions is the phantome menace.

Any ideas?

[SLK001]

Yeah, re-read the guide, then rip again. This time, set the REGION FREE option in SmartRipper. Or, you can use the REGION FREE button in IfoEDIT. Once you do this, SAVE your .IFOs back to the disk.

[marcovan]

Thanks SLK, I did not have to re-rip the movie. I went into IFOEDIT and Region Free'd all of them as you suggested. It worked great.

[marcovan]

Okay, got through the guide, went to play the movie on my standalone apex 1500. Menu popped up, great video quality and terrific sound quality. The movie begins "IN A GALAYX FAR FAR AWAY" and then it proceeds through the whole intro. Now, the problem after the intro is complete, the intro repeats itself in spanish and then the other languages before the movie actually plays. It's no big deal since I can fast forward past it but it would be nice to get rid of it

[SLK001]

What I would do is strip ALL of the language streams that you don't need (but this probably isn't a audio stream issue). Also, check that you are removing seamless branching in your movies with IFOEdit (it will regenerate the .VOBs and recreate the .IFOs to get rid of this).

Not exactly sure why it would be doing this, except maybe for the branching stuff. Load up either the first .VOB (VTS_01_0.VOB) or the second (VTS_01_1.VOB) in VOBRATOR and see if these are separate streams by viewing the various strams. If they are (which I suspect) then just strip these out.

Realize, of course, that this will be a constant battle between the movie studios and people who want to back up their DVDs. As the studios gets "creative" in their DVD mastering techniques, so must we in our backup techniques.

[marcovan]

Okay, I apologize for this since I don't quite understand all of this yet. I opened up the VTS_01_01.VOB file with VOBRATOR and I see the following

VOB (ID=1)
NAV(0xBB)
VES(0xE0)


VOB(ID=2)
NAV(0xBB)
VES(0xE0)

I have no clue what this means. I am guessing I would have to strip #2 ?

[SLK001]

Click on one of the video ones (the > {play} arrow below will change from grey to black). View it and if it's not the one you want, on the right there is an option for removing it (strip it, remove selection or something like that). Then save .VOB and recheck it to see if it is okay.

[marcovan]

Okay, did what you instructed and received a message "error rendering graph"

[onerag9]

The "error rendering graph" message means that the VOB ID maps to a menu. Leave that one alone and go on to the next VOB ID.