DVD Decrypter - Time based settings?

[badboytim999]

I am a newbie to the forums, but I have been a casual visitor for some time.

I am using DVD Decrypter to extract VOB files for use with Western Digital TV HD Media Player. The few test VOB files play great, but when I compare to a downloaded MKV file, I notice that the video run timer(shows 00:15 seconds on a 23 minute clip) does not accurately reflect the running-time of the VOB file ripped through DVD Decrypter.

Is there a setting in DVD Decrypter that I have overlooked to control the files output of the files' running-tiime? Thanks.

I am not concerned with file-size(1TB usb drive hooked up to WD TV HD media player); but I like the current speed for ripping standard DVDs with DVD Decrypter.

[hech54]

The difference in speed you are noticing is caused by the video format (PAL vs. NTSC).

[badboytim999]

Thanks hech54

I should clarify: Ripped VOB files play fine. Any elapsed time status bar or time display in Nero, Irfanview, or other viewer displays wrong time duration for file, so that a status bar runs to the end long before the file is finished playing. In Windows 7 choosing duration for a column in file explorer also displays the same time value, which is where the media viewer programs are probably picking up the expected duration for playback status bar.

I would not have a problem with this, except any time based controls for the WD TV media player don't work right with those files(e.g. FF, Rew and skip ahead 10 minutes).

If there is not anything I can do about it when I rip the file, then I will continue on with DVD Decrypter, until I can find something that works as well and quickly to rip VOB files to HDD to playback on WD media player.

I have not found a similar problem on the WD support forums, but I am glad that the files so far have played back okay on my HD television.

[hech54]

Thanks hech54
I should clarify: Ripped VOB files play fine.

Yes but....

but when I compare to a downloaded MKV file

The downloaded file most likely came from a PAL source. That is the most likely culprit....that and the fact that
you have no idea what the person who created the MKV file did to it prior to creating it.

[jagabo]

Ripped VOB files play fine. Any elapsed time status bar or time display in Nero, Irfanview, or other viewer displays wrong time duration for file, so that a status bar runs to the end long before the file is finished playing.

Remux your VOB files to MPG.

[badboytim999]

I appreciate all of the comments. MKV file also plays fine and shows correct time duration, it is not a PAL source. ( my point was that in comparison to locally ripped VOB files, the VOB files are not showing the correct duration in media players). I do not have any quality problems with image or sound of VOB images on HDTV, so I do not want to have to re-encode.

I was only curious to see if there is a setting I may have bunged-up in DVD Decrypter that would cause computer media players, or WD TV media player to not display correct time duration.

Thanks everyone!

[badboytim999]

OK In looking at the settings, and spending some time researching, I checked the option marked "Patch M2V Timecodes". This clears the timecode embedded while ripping the VOB. I am guessing that there is some default value that may be placed in the file (I am not comletely sure. . .) but once ripped, I tested and the ripped segments length is now correct in a media player, and elapsed time starts from 00:00 at the start of playing the file.

Just thought I would close out the thread with a solution.