Found my happy place at last OR Now I get almost 100%success

[Faustus]

Now I've never claimed to be some sort of DVD/Video Guru mainly because I basicly suck at stuff unless someone can show me face to face what to do, and over the last few months I've had on again off again success with the different DVD guides posted on this and other various websites.

I finally got sick of downloading new programs every few weeks to try some new guide that refers to a program I don't already have and decided I needed the most simple method possible.

You see this was a hard decision because I was really in love with getting as much as possible from the disk, (menus and other little extras when possible) but in the end I had to ask what was most important and that is the movie. So I tried the guide over at doom9 for the movie only.

http://www.doom9.org/mpg/ifoedit-menustripping.htm

And it works, and it works GREAT, I'm now at about a 99% success rate, and the only 1% is for those few that use nonssequential cells orders inside their vobs. (and I understand that this is currently being worked on)

Others complain that rempeg causes to much quality loss but using other programs instead has either proven way to hard to figure out or leads to reauthoring with yet MORE programs and kills the entire easy thing I was looking for.

Anyway if your having a hard time and just want the movie I highly suggest checking it out. BTW you still have the chapters when done just not a chapter menu to goto IE you can hit the next chapter button in the movie to move through.

[vidkid®]

Thanks for the tip. Is there a way of identifying the movies "that use nonssequential cells orders inside their vobs"?? What are some examples.

[Faustus]

I have no mainstream examples to quote you, but when you get to the vobrator step if the cells in order make no sense then you found one. Theres not many of them, but they are out there.

[Morloc]

Flaystus,
I'm glad you found something that works for you. Out of curiosity I followed the link in your first post and read the guide. I don't know how you can say,

I needed the most simple method possible

Sure looks complicated to me - much harder than SmartRipper>DVD2AVI>TMPG>VCDEasy which is my preferred way to rip DVDs to VCDs. However, to each his own. I just wanted to plug an all-in-one solution that I have also had good success with, and that is Eazy VCD. There is a forum for this tool on this site. I have absolutely no business interest in this product. It is a freeware front end that will take your DVD and spit out the bin/cue files ready for burning. If you are really trying to keep it simple, check it out.


Morloc

[tonyp12]

look at the post "EnemyWithin" did one page down in this post

I got it to work on the first try.

http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=315500&highlight=#315500

[Faustus]

I'm not ripping to VCD, I'm ripping to DVD, there is quite a bit of difference between the two in my limited experence. There may indeed be a more simple method, but this is the one I've found that works very well with few exceptions and uses tools I can grab for free off of their respective websites... well except nero but I purchased it long ago.