ripbot only converts half the movie

[AmDD]

I have searched but no one seems to have the same problem I am having here.

Im new to ripbot, I have used autoGK for awhile now. converting DVD vobs to AVI. I recently decided I would like to try mkvs and so far have had no luck!

What I have done is used DVD Decrypter to rip a single, full length, full quality vob from the DVD to my hard drive. I then goto ripbot and load the vob, select mkv and start. After about an hour it spits out an mkv thats only 30-40 minutes of the movie. I can play the entire movie from the vob without any issues so it must be a problem with ripbot or my settings or something.

Any ideas as to the problem here?

thanks

[hech54]

What I have done is used DVD Decrypter to rip

DVDDecrypter
Latest version:
3.5.4.0 (March 21, 2005)

[AmDD]

Ok, so whats wrong with that? Does it have something in the source code that makes the program stop working correctly after a specific date? You have DVD Decrypter in your sig, so I assume you still use it...

[hech54]

Ok, so whats wrong with that? Does it have something in the source code that makes the program stop working correctly after a specific date? You have DVD Decrypter in your sig, so I assume you still use it...

Rip your disc with something like DVDFabDecrypter.....it is still being updated to tackle the newest copy protections. Just because DVDDecrypter handed you a bunch of files that look like a DVD does not mean that it is a functional DVD.
Yes...I still use DVDDecrypter quite often. It can do thing that no other ripping software can do....I just don't use it on new releases. I rip first with updated software. That is a toe-tag attached to the logo in my sig.

[AmDD]

That is a toe-tag attached to the logo in my sig.

I didnt catch that until now. I do not think that is the problem since I can play the entire movie from the vob file before its converted with ripbot, however I will try DVDFab and report back.

[AmDD]

Well it worked once... After ripping the same DVD with DVDFab ripbot converted the whole movie. But now trying a second "new" rip or even the first one a second time, it only converts about 10sec of the movie. And doesnt even create a .mkv file at all. I must be doing something wrong here...

EDIT: I realized that the counter on ripbot is actually how long the operation takes, not the movie length. However, the problem is the same, ripbot only runs for 5-10sec and says all jobs finished. It also does not create an. mkv file.

[hech54]

If you copied the entire DVD (menus, extras and all), create a "movie only" version with something like DVDShrink. Maybe ripbot is concentrating on the wrong thing. It shouldn't do that....but that's the most logical answer I can think of.
DVDFabDecrypter can also do "movie only" I believe. Something to remember for next time.

[AmDD]

I did the movie only option.

I just tried uninstalling everything (AviSynth , Haali Media Spliter , and ffdshow) and reinstalling them. Still nothing.

This is aggravating because I would really like to be able to use the distributed encoding feature of ripbot...

[AmDD]

As an update, I did get it to work on a different computer. For some reason I guess ripbot can only handle VOBs smaller than 1GB. If I use DVDFab to decrypt the DVDs it creates multiple < 1GB VOB files, ripbot then picks them up and converts it fine, but it only converts part of the movie with a single large VOB.