Ma & Pa Kettle Conversion

[bigjimmpls]

Ok now I am perplexed. I have a Ma & Pa Kettle on a Dual layer DVD. When you go to play it it says I can select from 2 movies on 1 side or it I want to watch the other movies I need to flip it over. I am trying to copy this DVD but I am having problems. I have used ANYDVD with copying files to hard drive, DVD FAB platinum, Clone DVD2 with anydvd and also nere recode with anydvd and all of them get to 51% and then just hangs. Anybody have any ideas on how to copy these movies?

Thanks

[Bjs]

Dvdfab hd dvddecrypter .

A: Just pull movie one from side one first
B: Flip and repeat .

You may need to tinker with those settings , just avoid trying to pull both title's in one pass as its a "flipper" .

I have about 20 similar discs here , not pa and ma kettle though .

[bigjimmpls]

Bjs,

Thanks for the input but that didnt work. It will pull the first movie off of the dvd but will not do any of the 2nd movies on either disk. There are 2 movies on 1 side and 2 on the other and I have 2 dvds with different movies. I tried dvddecrypter and it gets about 60% through then says a read error on both dvds. I also tried dvdfab platinum and tried the merge option but that didnt work either. So any other suggestions.

Thanks for the help

[bigjimmpls]

Ok I finally found a guide for this and I got it to work but there are no menus for the 4 movies since the guide says not to use them. Can I select the menu option on DVDFAB platinum and will it work.

Here is the guide I followed.

Step 1
Insert the disc you want to convert into your drive with side B down and set to be read. Open DVDFab Platinum and make sure the drive with the movie has appeared in the Source window. Select Customize mode with the NO MENUS button selected (you can use Main Movie but it sometimes selects the wrong title on side B of flippers). Use the preview window to make sure you have part 2 of the movie as the selected title, then stop preview and make any selections of audio tracks and subtitles. Remember what you have selected here as the merged titles seem to run better if both are the same as far as audio tracks are concerned. Now select a hard drive folder as the target and click Start. Click Finish when done.

Step 2
When Step 1 completes, take out the disc and flip it one last time so that side A is down and let it load into DVDFab Platinum. When the analysis completes, click Merge and make sure the disc shows up in the Source window. Now select the title for Part 1 of the movie and verify you have it right with the preview window. Select the audio and subtitle elements that match your choices from Step 1 and press Next. Verify that the first and only item on this screen's Title List has the little DVD icon and possibly the title of the movie (may say just DVD_VOLUME). Now, while still on this screen, click on the Source folder icon and open the VIDEO_TS folder of the hdd files of Part 2 of the movie that you prepared in Step 1. The screen will snap back to the first Merge page to allow you to double check all settings (which should be fine since you made these choices in Step 1). Click Next and verify that the second item on the Title list has a folder icon and the correct running time for Part 2. It will probably just say DVD_VOLUME beside the folder.

Step 3
While on the second Merge page, select the Target drive and make any changes to burn speed, etc. in Common Settings if needed. (You can also write this to a folder on the HDD if you want to verify it by playing before burning.) When all is setup and ready, click Start and the Merge process will begin. If something goes wrong during the process, click the SAVE button before exiting to write a log file.

Thanks

[bigjimmpls]

Ok so I got DVD shrink to write to iso and then I merged them with dvd shrink and recoded with nero but now the audio and video are out of sync. Any other suggestions?

[festmaster]

I was able to convert almost all of the disks from both volumes of Ma and Pa Kettle with DVDShrink. For the one side of one disk that I couldn't (I don't remember which disk), I was able to rip it with ripit4me.

[bigjimmpls]

festmaster,

I did get it ripped in dvd shrink with iso but I lose the menus that way. Did you just copy them and then merge or what? Were you able to keep your menus? I would appreciate the help. This is driving me nuts.
I forgot to add that I am running vista. Does that make a difference?

Thanks

[festmaster]

I was mostly interested in ripping the movies so I could convert to XVID. I only made a copy of side one of disk one which had the menu intact, using ISO mode of DVDShrink.