Anime DvD trouble

[AzNBits]

I try to rip Saber Marionette j. but encounter a problem. THis anime has mutiple episodes. which concludes to mutiple different vobs. vob_1_01 VOb_02_1 ect... as u can see the vob are different. and when i drag one of them in. the rest would not follow. how do i rip the WHOLE DVD not parts and parts. I want to rip all the eps. Help plz asap THx U

[askanison]

i had the same problem with my southpark dvd. there were four episodes and each episode had sveral vobs. just have to ripp each episode separetly and merge together later. thats about all i know. no oe on here answered my question when i asked. maybe you will have better luck.

[AzNBits]

o thx.. how did it come out.? with the south park cd

[djstealth]

Using DVD2AVI and the TMPEG will let you encode all the episodes together as a single file, then use TMPEG's MPEG Tools to cut out the individual episodes.

[askanison]

still working out the bugs in the process. all the various vobs ripped form a particular episode come out. then i rip another episode and so on and so forth. the vobs to each particular episode are converted in dvd2avi together. so i did each individual episode that way. then convert to mpeg2 each episode. that's all i gott up to. am testing and burnig on cr-rw to view on dvd player for best quality. then i assume i will use the cut and merge option in tempgenc to bring them all together. thats all i can think of. very tedious process. i do wish there was another way but this is the only procedure i could come up with.

[askanison]

djstealth, he just wants to rip all the episodes at one time, not convert yet. which i personally can't do either. i just bit the bullet and ripped episode by episode. long and tedious. but its working somewhat.

[homerpez]

You could also try the Smartripper method. You can group together the chapters you want to merge, and for output, choose "Max Filesize", and set it to what you want.

It should merge them into a new .vob file, from whatever chapters you selected before. I've done this on my Trigun DVD's (to just grab one episode at a time, leaving out the "next episode" chapters), and it works.

[Lum-Chan]

What I have found works best for anime is this:
1) Use Smartrip to pull the whole thing down
2) Use DVD2AVI to pull down the individual episodes
3) Use Batch encode on TMPGEnc to do things episode by episode. That way you don't have to set up any start and end frames.

Reason I do this for VCD or SVCD is that you can sometimes fit more than one episode on a disc. When I get to the actual burning, it reads them as multiple chapters, which comes in real handy during playback. I don't want to mess with menus in VCD. For SVCD it almost always assures that I have a perfect fit of one episode per disc without a foulup.

I think the problem might lie in that you don't use the batch encode method on TMPGEnc. I am still trying to figure out batches for Flask (anyone want to give me pointers?).

Laters

[homerpez]

That works too. Though I usually get 3 episodes per disc

Or, alternately, just rip the whole !@#$% DVD to the HD, and make one giant project file in DVD2AVI. Then in TMPGEnc, select your "Start/End" frames for each episode in under "Source Range". And save each selection as a separate TMPGEnc project file, and run a "Batch Encode" on all the projects.

That IS the way to go...