Nickelodeon DVDs help

[Aboveaveragebob]

So I'm new to ripping DVDs and a few months ago I decided to rip my entire collection of tv and movies to an external hdd and hook it up to my Xbox one. I've noticed a problem with my Nickelodeon DVDs. For example. I have TMNT season one, it's about 12 episodes but when I try to rip it and select the files there are around 100 files on each disk. I know the eps are about 24 minutes but there are probably 50 files that length. There is another file that's around 3 hours, assuming that's the entire disk in one file I tried that but that file is fragments of the entire season out of order. The same thing happened ripping spongebob season 8. Anyone have any help? I've ripped house and the walking dead, both are very straight forward.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[theewizard]

what are you using for the ripper program,
the disc might have many short vobs
but it is much more likely, the copy protection creating this fragmentation and you need a newer program to decyrpt and rip
something DvDFab

[Aboveaveragebob]

The program is "WinX DVD Ripper Platinum". Is there one that works better? Hate to buy another and have the same issues.

[Dougster]

I use MakeMKV. The DVD features are always free. The Blu-Ray features free while in beta.

[Aboveaveragebob]

Trying it now.

[Dougster]

Report back with your results. With DVD's you can save the main movie or episodes to individual .mkv files and you can select
which subtitle and audio streams you want. It will automatically add the chapter markers if present.

[manono]

The program is "WinX DVD Ripper Platinum"... Hate to buy another

You shouldn't have bought that one. From your description it can't handle the kind of advanced copy protection that DVDFab HD Decrypter can.

[Aboveaveragebob]

The program is "WinX DVD Ripper Platinum"... Hate to buy another

You shouldn't have bought that one. From your description it can't handle the kind of advanced copy protection that DVDFab HD Decrypter can.

I agree, sadly I knew nothing about them and assumed it was good. Using makemkv and I'll let you guys know how it goes. I really appreciate the help!

[Aboveaveragebob]

Ok so I used makemkv and it extracted 13 file between 300mb and 5gb. But all the files are only 7 seconds? No video and I'm needing .avi file types. What did I do wrong?

[Dougster]

7 seconds? What player are you using? If you want .avi they'll need to be remuxed.

[Dougster]

As manono said there is DVDFab HD Decrypter. Another good choice.

[Aboveaveragebob]

I downloaded fabdvd, it asked me to reboot so I did, then it said my trial expired??

[Aboveaveragebob]

It's asking me to buy it for $49 per year.

[Dougster]

Did you try the 'TRY' option?

[Aboveaveragebob]

Did you try the 'TRY' option?

I did, it ripped it into one huge file rather than by ep but there's a "dvdfab" logo on the video.

[Dougster]

Didn't know they did that now. I bought my lifetime license years ago for that product and haven't had any problem with that.

If this is a recent DVD release it may be encrypted with RipGuard or ARccOS which can be an issue with some rippers. I personally
haven't had a problem with that since 90% of what I do is Blu-Ray anyway.

[october262]

Did you try the 'TRY' option?

I did, it ripped it into one huge file rather than by ep but there's a "dvdfab" logo on the video.

the dvdfab logo will disappear when you buy the program and re rip your original disc. the logo
is there because you are using the trial/free version.

[manono]

The decrypting part is free. It's the rest (the transcoding section) that has the trial. From the description on the DVDFab HD Decrypter page on this site:

NOTE! The decryption, DVD to HDD and Blu-ray to HDD, is FREE, if you want more features then it's a trialware.

It'll decrypt the entire DVD. To separate out the episodes once it's on the hard drive maybe use PGCDemux and have it create VOB files of all of them. Or use some program capable of choosing episodes for reencoding. I don't believe you've mentioned the intended final format.

[Aboveaveragebob]

Ended up using makemkv to see the correct filed then winx to rip them. Seems to have worked! Thanks everyone!