Kate and Leopold- can anyone rip this bastard?

[Macros746]

Hello all,
Last night I ran across a problem I had not encountered before. I was trying to rip Kate and Leopold so I could return the DVD without encountering the late fee. Not only could I not rip using Vstrip, DVD2SVCD internal routines but I also failed with Smartripper. Not only that but my DVD drive couldn't play it....it just stops after the FBI warning. I've never encounted this before. All of the rip programs found several files but not angle 1 or 2...so consequently the largest file to rip was only like 400 mb. Has anyone succesfully ripped this DVD. When I get home I'll update Smartripper (I think I have the newest version though) but if anyone knows of another program I'd appreciate it. This movie is not one of my 'must see' movies but I hate being thwarted.

Macros

p.s. I rebooted, tried it again, and removed and replaced the DVD several times. I was trying to play the DVD with the Hollywood Magic player...just wanted all the info out there.

[dilligaf]

Does the dvd play at all, say in a standalone player. Ive seen some deep scratches in rental DVD's that had rendered them useless to normal playing and ripping.

[Macros746]

I hadn't even checked it to see if there were scratches...unfortunately I don't have a stand alone player...just my computer and my hollywood magic card. But I have yet to encounter a DVD I couldn't play. I encountered some interesting problems with a Korean movie I rented but other than that. Now I know this is some sort of a complicated multi-angle movie.....but I suppose a scratch is also possible....HELP

Macros

p.s. I did a forum search and found some references to this movie along with T2 as seemless branching movies... but I didn't see any solutions to the problem.

[fredemc]

I ripped this movie using Smart Ripper 2.41. I had no trouble ripping it.

The problem I had was in convert it to a MPEG1 for making a VCD. The audio sync at the end of the movie was very bad, at least 1 second or more. I ended up converting the movie into 4 parts and gradually increasing the audio correction in TMPGENC for each part.

[EnemyWithin]

I used DVD Decrypter to rip it (only angle 1), IFOEDIT to strip it, and then ReMPEG2 to transcode it. Worked great for me. I'm guessing that the DVD was damaged.

[Bobby]

p.s. I did a forum search and found some references to this movie along with T2 as seemless branching movies... but I didn't see any solutions to the problem.

Macros I don't know of any problems with ripping Terminator 2??
I use T2 as my benchmark and I can tell you I had zero Problems ripping with smart ripper (and DVD Decrypter on a mates machine).
Just did a stream processing job with smart ripper and selected the movie file along with the ac3 track I required.
I must do a search on the problems people are encounteriing with this DVD.
Bobby.

[dausone]

Like most people, use DVD Decrypter instead of Smartripper... If you can see a lot of scratches on the dvd you can use a good paste wax/polisher that you would use for your car to buff out the scratches... it also fills in deep scratches to minimize lazer read errors. If it doesn't play in your dvd player at all, rent a better disc, they should just give you a replacement rental if you tell them the disc wont play.

[Scoobydeux]

Hi. This movie is my first attempt at this, so I am a newbie, but I have been reading how to do this stuff for months. On this problem, I tried what I thought should work, but still had audio synch problems at the end. Here is what I did, can you tell me where I went wrong? Interestingly, when you rip an DVD2AVI it, Virtualdub shows a framerate of 23.977 instead of 23.976 to synch the files....

Process attempted:

DVD Ripped Kate & Leopold with SmartRipper 2.41 to m2v and wav
DVD2AVI to make an m2v an avi
VFAPIconv to make the project file an avi
VirtualDub to force video/audio synch at 23.977fps (was ripped as FILM, 23.976)
frameserved as uncompressed avi
TMPEGEng to convert to MPEG2

Results: Ended up with a 2GB File slighty out of audio synch by the end.... Not as much as original wav/m2v, but still ~70-80ms or so. I must be honest, I didn't take the time to try to convert to Divx or some other AVI format straight from Virtualdub to see if the synch problem was there, I was hoping the forced framerate would fix it...

Where did I go wrong? What step did I miss that will make it work? And how can I control the quality so I can control the size of my final MPEG2 file?

Any help you can give a new guy is greatly appreciated...

[energy80s]

Yes, sounds like a faulty disc to me. I've had the same problems myself with rental titles (even new releases like ALI). Your Video Store should give you a replacement without any problems, if they don't, find another store!!