Is it my DVD? Or Just Me?

[qshartle]

Has anyone tried to rip an anime dvd or another that has caused them to go through hell. I need major help. All of the methods people give me either make the audio distorted or another problem. I am trying to go from DVD-->VCD. Please help.

PS: Mediapipe wont work for me. way way to slow.

[bilestyle]

animated shows are notorious for giving hellish problems, they are where i found out about all the problems of variable frame rates. you will NOT be able to fix these problems w/ any methods using QTMutator. And if mediapipe is slow on your machine, then just about anything you will do is going to be pretty damn slow too. To my experience ffmpegx hasnt done things any faster (it actually seems slower) than mediapipe, its basically the fastest thing we got (thats free anyways) that will encode svcd or vcd. What are your computer specs? -- you could rip in osex to elem streams, remux in mmt, decode the ac3 to aiff add to the mpeg and then export to DV in quicktime (one 22 minute episode decodes to about 4 gigs of DV video) you could then open the DV in quicktime and export to toast vcd if you are adverse to using mediapipe...if you have a slower machine (especially if its a G3) you will NOT find a fast svcd/vcd encoding process, its just not possible.

[SCB]

VCD encoding on a G3 is fairly fast with ffmpegX; in comparison to making an SVCD anyway.

[qshartle]

im gonna try going from mov to vcd and i will use mediapipe.
i used mpeg2decx with variable framerate checked.
ffmpegx doesn't have mov-->vcd support yet.