"Hybrid" DVDs: Part Progressive, Part Interlaced?

[TenaciousJP]

I am still having trouble backing up my DVD of "John Grisham's The Rainmaker."

Running the VOB files through DVD2AVI, I can see that part of the movie is FILM, part is NTSC. Seems like a really crappy mix of the two.

Using force film and encoding ruins the film. I don't think that using None in DVD2AVI would help either (the coded and playback number of frames is way off).

Am I stuck with trying to split it over 2 discs?

Anyone backed up this movie, or one like it, with a hybrid situation?

-J

[VidHack]

Hello,

Your post is very generic, there are many solutions. The questions are, How big are the original VOBS? Do you absolutely need the original menu? Did you stream rip it down using IFOedit? How big after stream ripping? Did you let DVD2SVCD tackle this DVD in DVD mode? This is same problem that I had with "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back", but each DVD can be tackled differently, and I always want to do Re_Encoding as a last option, to preserve the original quality.

VidHack

[TenaciousJP]

Thanks for the reply!

Since the DVD is movie-only, no features, all I want is the movie. I don't care about menus.

The ideal thing I would like to do is keep the 5.1 English track, and English Subtitles, but that might be a bit difficult, so I would settle for English audio only.

The original, unmodified DVD is 5.90 GB. When I removed a few VOB-IDs (FBI Warning, Studio Logos, etc.), and stripped the menus, I got this left:

The film with all tracks (English 5.1, English 2.0, French 2.0, English Subs, French Subs). This VOB group is 5.37 GB.

Even cutting the last chapter (credits), and keeping the English 2.0 track only creates a title set that is still about 400-500 MB too large.

So, re-encoding, or a two-disc split seem to be my only options.

[VidHack]

Hello Again,

Your in the zone for a single VOB Transcode solution, see my detailed post on this very issue,

"Reencoding _single_ vob in set to make movie fit on DVD-R?"

Should work perfectly, I did the very same thing for LOTR extended Version. Needed to shrink down VOB by 300Mb's, if I new how to hyperlink that thread I would have, check out the forum.

VidHack

[TenaciousJP]

Thanks for the help!

I'm definitely going to try this. I'm afraid I'll screw up, though.

And I am still wondering what TMPGEnc/DVD2AVI settings to use to re-encode one of the VOBs. It really is a big mess, interlaced and progressive scattered throughout the film. Maybe I'll be lucky...