The Matrix R1: .VOB files ok, ReMPEG2 .m2v file skips ...

[Pratticus]

Hey everyone .... hehe my first post in this forum even though I have visited vcdhelp.com for over a year.

I just recently purchased a Sony DRU-500A writer. I am running Windows XP and have successfully used DVD DeCrypter and IFOEdit to get The Matrix onto my HD and stripped it down to just the movie. (I now have .vob, .bup and .ifo files totalling about 5.09 Gb from 7.38 Gb)

Playing the stripped .ifo and .vob files in PowerDVD or WinDVD yields excellent results .. no skipping, perfect picture, excellent sound and just the parts I want. (Yay me!)

When I try to use ReMPEG2 to transcode it, it successfully completes with the exception that in some "high-action" parts of the .m2v file the movie skips 3 or 4 times. (For example, when Morpheus fights Neo or the opening scene with Trinity whacking the cops.)

Can someone enlighten me on what I may be doing wrong or what supplemental tools I should be using either pre- or post- transcoding to removing the skipping frames?

Thanks in advance,
Pratticus

[wulf109]

Rempeg's transcodeing is erratic. You would be better served using CCE or Tmpeg to transcode the vob's to m2v. Any authoring program could be used to create the DVD just don't try to remux with Ifoedit.

[scaronelly]

i used rempeg2 to successfully reencode the matrix. make sure you have frame mode > match source; performance > reference dct; and search technique > full. i reencoded it at 80 percent.

[Pratticus]

Wulf and Scar,

Thanks for the speedy replies.. before switching to CCE or TMPeg I will try Scar's approach and bump up the quality of the transcoding.

Maybe with the options at their best I can get a solid output .m2v!

I shall return either later tonight or early tomorrow and let you know what I found!

*Edit* OMG haha, I just started encoding with those settings Scar ... ETA 15 hours!! This is with a p4 2.26GHz and non-RAID HD (but I am reading from one HD and writing to a separate one!)

I was encoding these same files with stock settings in ~5.5 hours.