forty-two confusion..

[Tolly]

i have a couple questions about forty-two...

first of all, when i do a get info in the prog, it still says i have version 1.0, when i have updated to the latest version, 1.0.2 i think it is. is this normal or does it mean i havent correctly installed the update, because im almost sure i did?

but my biggest question is this. im tryin to rip a dvd to divx, i think it has 10 titles, but forty two seems to only want to use one title- the first. how do i set it up to encode all titles and every part of the movie, does it have to do with the "title" box when u click "more", for more options? if u know what i can do to get all titles and parts of the movie ripped please let me know.

if u can help me out, please do so, thanks alot.

[bilestyle]

you are getting titles and chapters mixed up. There are several titles on one dvd, u dont want ALL the titles in one encoded file because then u would get the warnings, the previews, any extra clips AND the feature itself all in one big file. If you choose the proper title it does JUST the feature of the movie. Title 1 is the default, and most commonly the feature of the film, but sometimes it isnt.

If you upgraded to 1.0.2 it could very well not have changed the info dialog since it was only an iterim upgrade instead of a big one.. sorry for any confusion that has caused.

we are workin hard on 1.5 and we think everyone will like what is to come.

[Tolly]

ok thanks for the info, but i need the main film and some of the extra stuff, is there any way i can encode more than just title 1, because title 1 is just an opening scence type of thing. please help me! thanks alot.

[bilestyle]

it is only possible to choose one title-- why would u want all of the movie and extras in one long piece anyways? that doesnt make any sense. You just need to figure out which title is the fulll film and concentrate on ripping and encoding that, if you want to encode any extras after u do the full movie u can just encode them seperately, thats the only way to do it tho..im still perplexed as to why you would want those other extras to be part of the movie.. you would have to watch teh entire movie before you got to them... it doesnt keep chapter markers or anything once ripped and encoded.

[WiseWeasel]

Tolly, use OSEx (http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~afaversa/) to browse the list of titles and find the title numbers you want based on their length. You do NOT want ALL the titles, ever. Trust me on this one. Once you find the titles containing the info you want, plug those numbers into Fourty-Two one at a time and reencode them. It might make more sense to just rip bonus feature titles separately with OSEx or Forty-Two or something and make a second DVD-R, if there isn't enough space on the first one to get a good quality main feature and special features all on one DVD-R. Note that comercially pressed DVDs are often double-layered and hold twice as much data as DVD-R disks, and so you can't always just back them up onto a single DVD-R disk in their entirety.

[DannyZR2]

Biles, what do I do with the file that I get after using forty-two for DVD-DVDR?

I have the following files:

1-movie.mpg 1.78GB
biles.mpv 9MB
movie.mpg 10.8MB
movie.mpg.ac3 1.3MB

and in the temp folder, a file called biles.mpv 1.36MB

I have figured out that the biles.mpv, movie.mpg, and movie.mpg.ac3 in the main folder (output folder) are the 1 minute video test clip, and the 1-movie.mpg file is the output file (full feature movie already muxed., and the biles.mpv in the temp folder is the video for the mpg file, but where is the elem stream for the sound (the ac3 file for the full movie)? and what do I do with this full 1.78GB mpg movie? I thought that forty-two would keep chapters and menus when doing DVD-DVDR. I guess this is not the case? Even so, I still don't know what to do with the mpg file to get it to a DVDR and play it on my standalone DVD Player.

I understand that v 1.5 will make a VIDEO_TS folder ready to burn in TOAST and that will be wonderful, BUT, will it keep the menu system and chapters from the original movie? because THAT would be the most complete one-application solution that we are all waiting for and hoping for. I would bet you would be getting donations out the wazoo if that is what you come up with, you and kai! Please let us know how things are going and what to expect and when. :P

[Tolly]

my reason is because it isn't a film, its a music dvd. i wanted the main film, plus some music videos and performances that were extras. ill just encode them all seperately and join them. ill figure it out. thanks though.