Ripping Devil's Advocate

[DVation]

Ive ripped quite a few DVD's now and never seen this happen. I used DVDecrypter to rip the main movie files of Devil's Advocate. When I play back these VOBs in PowerDVD, the movie starts playing from the middle of the movie with no sound, when PowerDVD shows the movie progress meter about halfway through the movie (which is actually the end of the movie) it starts playing from the very beginning with sound. Why in the world would this happen? Any ideas?


[edit]...just realized this maybe isnt very clear. If you take the complete movie of devils advocate and cut it into two halves, and strip the audio from the second half, then put the two files back together so the the second half plays first, this is exactly how it plays back in PowerDVD yet the progree meter progressively goes toward 100% without jumping around. I hope this helps explain what is happening...[/edit]

[jcuervo811]

I have also been trying to rip this movie also. The way this movie is setup is that VOB1 starts off with deleted scenes and then the movie begins and VOB7 also has deleted scenes at the end of the movie. VOB8 has more deleted scenes which I just deleted it. I used MPEG Utilities to break up those two VOBs into individual VOB IDs to a total of 4 IDs (2 VOB IDs per VOB). Then once I found out which IDs were the actual deleted scenes, I deleted those files as well as the original VOB1 and VOB7 and I renamed the VOB IDs that I kept to VTS_01_1.VOB and VTS_01_7.VOB. I ran IFOEdit to recreate the IFOs and Get VTS Sectors and strip the extra audio and subtitles and so far everything is good to this point. I checked it by playing the movie and its fine. I ran DVD2AVI to strip the AC3 file and .D2V file. I load up TMPenc and used a prebuilt template I found on this site called "My DVD" to give me my .M2V file. Here is where I am having my problem: when I load up Maestro, the audio is 1 sec. shorter than the video, which I have seen before and it never had a problem. But after it creates my VOBs, the audio is out of sync by being 1 sec. too fast throughout the whole movie. I have recreated the AC3 and D2v files and also the M2V file and I still have the same problem. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Jcuervo811

[DVation]

although i have not personally tested this, id suggest opening the .ac3 file with sonic foundry's soft encode (u can find a copy around somewhere) ... u can edit .ac3 files with this application, simply add a second of silence to the beginning of the audio file and u should be back in business. i suppose u could also do the inverse and delete 25 frames from the beginning of the video.

[jcuervo811]

Has anyone been able to successfully back up this movie? And if so, could you please tell me how you did it. I have been trying for a week now and cannot get the audio to sync up with the video.

Jcuervo811