Problem with using DVD2SVCD.

[macgvyer]

After going through the menus of DVD2SVCD. I then goto rip and convert on the conversion tab. The program says preparing vobfiles to be ripped. After about 10mins, I get this message
I/O error 103 The operation completed successfully

What am I doing wrong?
Thank you
Corey

[SVCDummy]

You're most likely not doing anything wrong.

Sometimes the ripping function of DVD2SVCD has trouble unlocking the DVD in your drive.

There are 2 things you can do for this.

First, put the DVD in the drive and play foe a few seconds in whatever software player you have and then start the DVD2SVCD process again.
(If you don't have a software player then download a free or trial one fro the tools link on the left side of this page.) Playing it unlocks the protection and saves the ripper a lot of trouble.

Second, you could try ripping with SmartRipper and then just tell DVD2SVCD what folder you used to save the ripped files. This is the method I always use because SmartRipper seldom has trouble and it tells you up front if it is having troulbe as well as what the trouble might be.

Either way should work.

[SVCDummy]

Oops! I jsut re-read your post and you are getting the error 10 minutes into the rip.

It sounds like the comand line ripper in DVD2SVCD tripped over a problem on the DVD that it couldn't deal with.

I would DEFINATELY now go to the SmartRipper method. SmartRipper is a bit more robust in getting past source DVD problems.

Good Luck