SmartRipper: it didn't copy all the vob files, but complete

[nocarebear]

I was using SmartRipper, but it didn't copy all of the main movie files (4 files), but the movie was complete with just 3 vobs on my hard drive. I used DVD2AVI to open the vob files and moved the bar thing on the bottom to the end, and it did reach the end of the movie. I proceeded to encode the movie for VCD and sure enough, the movie was complete, but I don't know why.

The last vob file (vts_01_4) on the DVD is 930MB, but my last vob file on my hard drive (vts_01_3) was only 620MB. Although everything turned out find, I want to know what was going on here. Can someone explain to me how the fourth vob file on the DVD was not needed for the encoding?

[ntloser]

Have you played the fourth VOB file to confirm it is part of the movie. Perhaps it is some of the extra junk on the DVD.

[nocarebear]

Have you played the fourth VOB file to confirm it is part of the movie. Perhaps it is some of the extra junk on the DVD.

I finally got around to check it out, and you are correct. It turns out that a part of the vts_01_3 file contained both the movie and some extras and all of the vts_01_4 file is extras. I always thought that extras used a file name separate from the main movie files. In this case, the main movie file is vts_01_**, so I just assumed the extras would be anything but vts_01_**.

Another interesting thing is that the main movie files are over 1GB instead of the usual 0.99GB. I wonder why this is.