titanic

[poopyhead]

anyone tried to rip titanic....

the method i use is: smartripper->dvd2avi->tempgenc

however, the .wav file that dvd2avi creates is so big that even windows media player says "not enough buffer to play file"

when i try to encode titanic, i hear no audio even though i've included the .wav extrated by dvd2avi. i tried using another program to compress the .wav. i used toolame with tempgenc as the front end, so toolame compressed the .wav file before tempgenc encoded the video. however, i still hear no audio, even when an outside program compressed the .wav file first. any help????

[likkletree]

Could be possible you've ripped out the wrong audio track, my mate did Titanic a couple of months ago and reported no problems.

[poopyhead]

hrm..well...the .wav file is gotta be bigger than regular cuz titanic is over 3 hrs long..the extracted .wav is gonna be huge..but i think the size of it doesn't allow it to be encoded into tempgec..or something..anyone??

[poopyhead]

hrm..i just wanted to know what other ppl did to encode titanic with if they use dvd2avi to extract the .wav file...cuz i extracted both track 1 and track 2...the only english tracks on the vobs..and they both turned out to be over 2 gigs....too big for media player to handle and prolly too big for tempgenc to handle...i would like to know how other ppl got around the problem ....

or maybe smartripper->dvd2avi->tempgenc doesn't work here....?

[xzarkad]

Just a thought.........

wouldnt it be possible not to open all VOB files at once in DVD2AVI? Just open the first 5 files. When you are done, store all other VOB files in another folder, open them in DVD2AVI and encode. Now you should have created two sepate D2V and WAV files. The WAV files will now be smaller then 2 Gigs. After having them converted to Mpeg by using TMPGEnc, you can add the two Mpeg files back together.........

[Truman]

xzarkad's method worked for me.
smartripper>dvd2avi>TMPG

[poopyhead]

xzarkad, heh..that makes perfect sense...i'm kicking myself for not thinking of it..anywayz...thnx for the advice...i'll try it later tonight...

[poopyhead]

i was able to rip titanic by the method mentioned by xzarkad. however, when i tried to join the 2 separate parts of titanic rip with the "mpeg join" in the "mpeg tools" section of tempgenc, the audio was messed up...anyone have experience joining SVCD files together using tempgenc "mpeg tools"? (not cutting)

the audio was also horribly outta sync..

[wildcatfan]

OK sounds like you hit a snag I have had.....it seems when you encode files (mpeg2 at least) in tmpgenc and then try to join said files it f*cks up the audio. you get part of the audio from the first file dropped altogether. This is why i quit using tmpgenc. Now that being said, it seems to join files made by other encoders fine. Just chalk it up to something jacked up in its encoding.

Michael

[mvdude2001]

I had this problem the first time i tried to rip the matrix's audio

[mvdude2001]

I had this problem the first time i tried to rip the matrix's audio

[poopyhead]

i'm not really in a hurry to find solutions for the audio prob cuz i just cut the 2 separate parts of titanic onto the CDs..so i didn't really have to join them together...(ended up being 5 discs...but that's cuz titanic is 3 hrs 15 min, credits included) but in case i have to do it in the future, what do i do to join mpeg-2's created by tempgenc?

[wildcatfan]

I have never found a solution just ditched tmpgenc as my encoder. Well there is a way maybe as long as you will not be doing ANY editing of it later. And it does have drawbacks. I did this on one clip.

from command prompt:

copy/b clip1.mpg+clip2.mpg output.mpg

(you must use the "/b" or it won't work)

Now the good and the bad. My audio was fine afterwards but:

1) no pc player afterwards would show the correct time I got like 7 seconds total displayed, but the whole clip played (this happened on my apex to played whole clip but the time only showed 7 seconds before starting the clip so I couldn't use time search function). The time did show the correct time while it was playing however.

2) some standalones and some authoring software may just puke on this file. (but i used I-author and mpgxmps and that worked ok, minus the time display snafu)

3) FORGET about trying to edit it afterwards.

Finally one good thing though:

Even though I couldn't use the time search function, all of the entry points I made in I-author DID work perfectly.

If you find a way of joining these correctly let me know.

Michael