VOB2MPG - PRO V3: Rips Chaps 1-13 fine but not 14 - 27?

[PTR]

Hi -I have just paid for the full version of this product and it seems pretty straight forward but it has truncated my DVD? I have a vista system and I am try to rip a what is essentially a simple home video. It is made up of 27 chapters (which are in reallity just 27 presses of the record button). If I play the DVD using Windows Media Player it can 'see' 27 chapters and I can navigate between them and play them all. In VOB2 it lists 27 chapters but chapters 14 to 27 are all listsed with the same start and end time 00:39:01:09? The log says all of these chapters have been extracted successfully but that the rate was 0 Mb/s. The resulting mpg file as displayed in Windows Movie Maker is 39 minutes long! Maybe I've missed a setting somewhere or something, can anyone advise?
Regards.

[ChrissyBoy]

Can you post your log file and also zip up your *.IFO files for the DVD and attach them too?

[DB83]

I do not have the 'full' version. Of course you would need this if you need to extract an mpeg for an individual chapter etc.

However, I am somewhat puzzled by your definition of 'chapter' and how you created the dvd in the first place. 27 presses of the record button would normally give you 27 titles with each having their own chapters (depending on the setup of the recorder). These seperate titles would then appear in the left panel of vob2mpg when the program reads the dvd (ifo mode). So what does the program report in the left panel ?

[PTR]

Thanks Guys.

Chris I'll get back to you when I'm back in front of my machine.

DB83, maybe I should have said title then (I'm not really in my confort zone here) - I didn't make the recording, we got someone else to do it for us but we asked for the source disks so we could play around with them ourselves rather than get someone elses idea of what we wanted to see (I must admit I thought this would be more straight forward than it is proving to be),

PS. Someone at work is telling me that Nero can do all of these jobs (rip. backup, edit, effects, sync with audio, etc.) and it is only £40 .... is this really the case?

Regards.

[hech54]

PS. Someone at work is telling me that Nero can do all of these jobs (rip. backup, edit, effects, sync with audio, etc.) and it is only £40 .... is this really the case?

Go smack that co-worker upside his head. Nero is for making custom CD-Rs for the car...and who does than anymore anyways?

[hech54]

DVDDecrypter (Free)- IFO Mode - File Splitting NONE will also do the job. One giant lump of video...no breaks. Then run that through VOB2MPG to turn the VOB into an mpeg file. DVD recorders sometimes make crazy file structures...my dad's Cybercrap is VERY guilty of that.

[DB83]

PS. Someone at work is telling me that Nero can do all of these jobs (rip. backup, edit, effects, sync with audio, etc.) and it is only £40 .... is this really the case?

Regards.

Nero could probably make a cup of coffee as well if you pushed the right buttons.

It is just a hyper-inflated burning tool (and it does not do that properly either)

No single package will do all what you ask. There are plenty of tools out there to do these tasks. Most on here will use different tools for similar tasks as one will be better suited for the particular job.

[PTR]

Chris - I have an ISO file on disk - VOB can 'see' the IFO files, but Windows Explorer can't .... it is still compressing and I have to go out ..... are you sure you need this file it';s going to be more than ..... actually it's just finished (it took more or less an hour and it is still > 4Gb! The compression it seems only shaved opff a couple of meg?

PS. Where will I find the log?

[hech54]

He only wants the IFO files. IFO files are small.

[DB83]

PTR - take a look at 'What is >> DVD' at top left of this page.

This explains what are IFO files and what Chris wants.

The logs should be in ..\Local Settings\Application Data\Badger I.T\VOB2MPG\3.xxxxx\logs

[PTR]

I think I've uploaded some files but it is not clear where they are (well to me anyway).

[PTR]

Oh ... there they are.
Anyway I coudln't find the log file so I ran it again and took a screen shot of the log so hopefully you can see the problem ... evry thing up to chap 13 seems ok and then from there on it is all zero but as I say Windows Media Player can see these chapters and play them?

[ChrissyBoy]

Well. The issue is that the IFO files are incorrect. They are reporting the wrong end point of the chapters beyond 14. Here is what IFOEdit makes of it:



Which is the same as how VOB2MPG has parsed them. So is this a recurring problem or just a one off? If it is a recurring problem i will see if there is any way we can resolve this. If it is a one off then i suspect there is not much that can be done.

FYI: The reason WMP etc can handle the incorrect IFOs is because the start points of the chapters are ok. Therefore you can navigate to them and play then. What V2M and IFOEdit are doing is making use of the end point and it is this which is wrong here.

[PTR]

Hi Chris - thanks for the feedback. I've no way of knowing if this is a recurring problem as this is the first time I have tried to do any thing of this sort. That said I was given 2 dvds so I'll try the other one tonight and see how it goes with that. I don't understand why the IFO would be wrong - is that because the DVD is corrupt in some way?

[hech54]

Hi Chris - thanks for the feedback. I've no way of knowing if this is a recurring problem as this is the first time I have tried to do any thing of this sort. That said I was given 2 dvds so I'll try the other one tonight and see how it goes with that. I don't understand why the IFO would be wrong - is that because the DVD is corrupt in some way?

Many DVD recorders do crap like this. It may help to run the VIDEO_TS folder through FixVTS after you rip it and before you run it through VOB2MPG. FixVTS was originally designed to fix DVDs from DVD recorders that make goofy output discs.

[PTR]

Thanks for the tip hech54 - I've no time tonight but I'll try that and get back to you.
Cheers.

[PTR]

FixVTS didn't seem to work, see http://screencast.com/t/8UkDMlG5 but I've gone back to the original DVD it it seems to be working now although it is taking an age? The other dvd I ripped seemed to work fine so I'm not really clear what's going on but I think I'm getting there.
Thanks for the help.
Patrick.