How can I safely remove multiangles??? might be my guide bug

[baker]

If anybody hangs about this foroum then you may have seen my dvd2dvd-r guide on the right which dosn't work!!!

I am after spending a week trying to figure out why it dosn't work and I think it may be because I remove all the multiangles bar the first one.

Any dvd gurus out there clarifie this for me???

Baker

[VidHack]

What guide? Where is the Link? HUH?

I havent read your guide, but from my experiences, if you are using DVDdecryptor to remove angles- Forget it- Always rip the entire DVD to your drive, then use IFOedit to strip the angle, and update the pointers. This is the ONLY way that my mltiangle DVD's have worked properly (Star War*ATC) Then you can Re-Encode/transcode/author however you want.

VidHack

[baker]

its the guide called the best way to copy a dvd.

And I will try your method now.

Tia

Baker

[VidHack]

baker

just looked at your guide. I see problems. Your approach to simply 'delete' VOBS is the problem. You say to look at the VOB in PowerDVD, if its not needed then 'delete' it. This is NOT the correct approach to this problem. DVD navigation is a tricky thing. Derrow created a DVD veiwer in IFOedit to overcome this very problem, you see there can be a simple fast jump to another titleset burried in the .ifo, it may be a single frame or a LinkPGC frame. If you go an remove that VOB, you got a dead link.... Plus the DVD burning app will spit up a "File Missing" at you. You HAVE to use IFOedits DVD player to follow the titleset being played, this INSURES you dont delete a mandatory VOB. Also, Dummy VOBS can be used as fake placeholders for the Deleted ones, so that the compliancy check done by the Nero Burning engine is satified. You can still kill the buttons, and all will work fine.

VidHack

[baker]

HMMM

right ifoedits dvd palyer crashs on me. I have 3 copys of ifoedit installed and it always does it. Its the latest version.

Also let me get this striaght.

If I end up with following sets:

vts set 1
vts set 6
vts set 7

But there are all that are needed cause all the rest are extras, this dvd willl work fine???

I hope to god dummy files arent needed. I was handed a link to a guide on doom9. I will have to check that out.

get back to me on this, you have been a great help.

Baker

[VidHack]

"vts set 1
vts set 6
vts set 7

But there are all that are needed cause all the rest are extras, this dvd willl work fine??? "

Hello again,

What I am saying is that you have now way insuring that the following vts sets are ONLY extras. Do this....

Open up VTS_01 in DVD2AVI, load in all the vobs for that titleset, then turn on the "statistics window" (think its F5?) then slide the slider bar slowly to the right, and watch the VOB ID number. If it increments from VOB ID 1, then there are multiple video segments contained within that VOB. So, if you simply delete the Entire VOB...your dead.

A single VOB may contain, the movie, trailers, extras,...... So, just deleting the VOB may work for some DVD's but not all.

The real problem is the Menu .IFO, it will still contain the link for the deleted VOBs (ID) so now your DVD player hangs. There can be a single frame of video with a VOB ID of 4 buried in the VOB you deleted and the DVD autoplay menu VIDEO.TS might have a routine in it that says, jump VOB ID 4 , then Jump to main ROOT menu. In that case your guide will FAIL. I am glad you are trying to post a guide, but you have to understand the DVD specs a bit more, before you can generate a Extra's killing approach to your guide. Good luck, hope this helped.

VidHack