DVD Ripping then Convert Question

[frodamob]

Hi All,
Sorry if this is a redundant question, but I have searched a little in the forum and haven't quite found the answer to my question.

I have a Disney DVD movie, that I am trying to convert to DIV-X format and load onto my Creative Labs Zen W.

I have ripped the DVD using DVD Decrypter, then I used SUPER to convert it to DIV-X, everything worked great, except one small exception. Somewhere along the way it split the main movie into different VOB files, I need a quick and easy (no reconverting) way to join either the vob files together or perhaps after I have converted them to DIV-X, a way to joining the AVI files together.

I have read on here that DVD Decryter Tools\Settings\File Mode\Options File Splitting -> set to None, should rip the entire DVD into one VOB file that I could then convert to DIV-X, but I can seem to get it working, any tips? Anyone who has owned a Disney movie knows that you only want the movie files and not the entire DVD, so I only selected the VOB files I needed, would that be a problem?

Thanks so much for you help,

[jman98]

You actually need to go into IFO mode and use Stream Processing to make this work in DVD Decrypter. You will be able to select just the movie this way and send it to one giant VOB file.

Do note that DVD Decrypter hasn't been updated in years because the author was forced to abandon it or face a potentially ruinous lawsuit. DVD Decrypter cannot decrypt recent Disney DVDs, so you are lucky in that you have something it can work on. Eventually you will probably have to find another decrypting program to deal with current disc protection methods that Sony, Disney and a few others use.

[fritzi93]

Disney movies, particularly recent titles, have copy protection that the no-longer-updated DVDDecrypter cannot deal with correctly.

I'd advise using DVDFabHDDecrypter (free) to rip the whole disc. Then load the rip in DVDShrink, reauthor main movie and save. One reason for this second step is to ensure the Fab rip gets remapped properly.

Then feed the main movie to whatever encoder you like. Shouldn't be necessary to join the VOBs, just select the VTS_01_0.IFO. Anyway, it works that way in AutoGK, which I use occasionally. Dunno about Super. Good luck.

[frodamob]

Thanks very much for all your help, it worked like a charm! I knew I was missing that one simple step, Thanks!

<Begin Rant>
OK so I actually went out to my local Best Buy or wherever and purchased these Disney movies for the inflated price that usually comes with Disney. Why cannot I not use the product that I purchased to do whatever I want to do with it? I know the answer but shesh ... all I wanted is to port the Disney movie to my Zen W so that it will keep my kids busy in the car. Protection-Protection-Protection, who owns this product now anyways? I know the answer to that as well. Were you not legally able to backup your media ion case of malfunction?
<End Rant>

Any ways Thanks Again

[guns1inger]

If you want quality in you conversion then AutoGK is a far better option than SUPER. Fritzi93 is on the ball with his updated methods.