Copy clip from dvd using Handbrake

[Cath Gildart]

Here goes - My ex copied videos of our childrens onto dvd many years ago (don't know what hardware or software was used). I downloaded Handbrake and successfully copied some clips. I have a problem with one dvd. If I play it on my computer it plays the full 3 hours. When I try to copy a 5 min clip (2h 24min into the dvd) by putting in the start and end times it copies a couple of frames from about half an hour in. Anyone know why this may be happening or how I can get it to record the clip please.

[DB83]

Make sure you have loaded the entire dvd (choose folder from the load options) and not just a vob


Another option would be to use avidemux. Then you can just load a vob and mark the start/end times. This method could fail if your desired section spans two vobs. But you could use another program vob2mpg which will create a single mpeg file from the dvd and load that into either handbrake or avidemux.

[Cath Gildart]

I don't really understand what I am doing. The dvd I'm struggling with won't copy the whole dvd it stops in the same place as the clip I see when I try to copy from a later part of the dvd. It implies there are 2 titles both just over 3hr 5min 33sec long. When I play the dvd it only plays for the 3hr 5min 33sec, so why does it say there are two 'titles'. I've tried both with the times I want the clip I want recording but still just get those couple of frames from what may be the end of the first 'chapter'.

[ProWo]

Rip the DVD with PGCdemuxMod, selecting the right IFO (Set demux video, audio, subtitles streams, leave the rest blank).
Then remux the streams with MKVToolNix-gui to MKV.
Finally cut the MKV with wathever you want.

[Cath Gildart]

Thanks for replying. I'm afraid I really have no idea how to do that. I want this clip as it is a video of my auntie who died this week, I want to send it to her children.

[DB83]

DVDs can have more than one title but to have both over 3 hours I think not. Yes. DVDs can have six hours but the quality will not be good.


There is a possibility that handbrake does not like your dvd. You said you do not know how it was created. It is possible it was made in a dvd-recorder and the wrong type was used.


What I now ask you to do is open the folder that contains the files in Windows Explorer and advise of the exact filenames you see. All of them please.

[Cath Gildart]

This is what I see

[DB83]

As I thought. The dvd was created in a dvd-recorder in video-recording mode (RM is the clue here) rather than the standard dvd-video mode. Modern PC players can handle this but if you attempted to play this disk in a dvd-player and not the machine it was created in playback would more than likely fail.


It is also much harder to extract the video from such disks since most the methods quoted above only work for dvd-video disks. Maybe the method quoted by ProWo can do this but I have not tried and I do not have a recording-mode disk to try it on.

[Cath Gildart]

Thanks for looking for me. Maybe when we are allowed back out someone can get it off for me.

[DB83]

Back in the day there was some Nero software that could extract the video. I am sure I used it myself when I first used a dvd-recorder and made the same mistake.


What happens if you simply select one of those large vobs and try to play it in a player such as vlc ? If it plays then avidemux may be able to edit the clip from it.


Failing all that there is a potential, not so elegant, way. When you play the dvd since you can do that you can do a recording of your PC screen.

[DB83]

Of course if handbrake did do a conversion from that disk then if you can play a single vob determine the new start/end times and load that vob in to handbrake with the new timings.