Narnia backup problems, *not* the usual

[Pisces225]

Hey all...

I have a question about my recent backup of Narnia. I ripped using DVD Decrypter, ran the whole DVD through Fix VTS enabling me to Shrink it. There was a surprise right away in the file sizes. The original full rip was 9 gigs, so that DL disc was slam full. After I ran it through Fix VTS and opened it in Shrink, the size was now right about 4 gigs, enabling a 100% "shrink" which previewed and burned fine. I'm so surprised at the drop in size though, did they really cram 5 gigs of unreferenced garbage into this thing? Amazing...

Now when I watch my backup on my standalone, it starts fine. But about 25 min. or so into the movie the video gets jittery and wants to freeze and skip. If you fastforward before coming to that part and skip past it it will play fine again for another 20-30 min before freezing and jumping around.

Has anyone else had this problem? I've never had Shrink produce a movie that did this before. Did Fix VTS make a crappy replacement title set or something? Anyone have any ideas at all?

I suppose I could just try again, but I'm afraid the result will be the same. Comments appreciated!

[guns1inger]

I would suggest DVD Decrypter didn't copy the disc as well as you thought. Did you use the PSL script for PGCEdit or a similar method to create PSL files for Decryptor ? If not, Decryptor probably didn't cope with the protection, and FixVTS can't fix something like that.

I would suggest either PGCEdit and the PSL plugin, or the latest version of DVD Fab Decrypter and see if you get better results.

[Pisces225]

Very possible... I think I either ripped it straight or with AnyDVD in the background, for simplicity sake I'll try again with Fab. Thanks for the advice, I'll give that a shot when I get off work here and report back in case anyone else runs into this.

[fritzi93]

The region one version is not difficult. My procedure:

Open PgcEdit -> Plugins -> PSL2 (ARccOS) -> Wizard. Follow prompts.

There were no I/O errors, and no need for a PSL2 file. DVDDecrypter did, however, find structure protection in two places and inserted dummy sectors. After successful rip, PgcEdit said that fake cells and crap were in the following PGCs:

VTST 1,1 TTN 1 (2:22:54) Title 1
VTST 1,3 TTN 3 (0:01) Title 25 (Fake unreferenced title)

I chose to remove the crap in place with FixVTS rather than VobBlanker. This was successful and DVDShrink had no trouble opening the files. After reauthor and deselection of unwanted audio and subs, the ratio stood at about 81%, so I chose "no compression", and saved. DVDRebuilder is re-encoding the movie now.

Is anyone else annoyed at the goddam trailers and junk Disney puts on their DVDs? Bleh, just more incentive to back this one up, movie only. The commentaries are remarkably stupid as well.

[EDIT] Pisces, I wonder if you have some settings wrong in DVDDecrypter. Or perhaps AnyDVD was at fault (got the latest update?). For one thing, the file size of your rip is far too large, compared to my result. And I don't see how you could get to 100% ratio in DVDShrink. How about resetting DVDDecrypter to defaults and try the PgcEdit method?

[fritzi93]

If you *DO* try PgcEdit, be certain to turn off AnyDVD or DVD43, they'll screw the rip for sure. There are other ways to use them that generally work, but not with the PgcEdit Plugin. Good luck.