I'm trying to encode a VIDEO_TS with Handbrake but it does not stop.

[Tetsuro]

Hello,

I'm trying to encode a VIDEO_TS with Handbrake but when it reach 100% it does not stop. It's like it can't 'close' it. If I stop it manually and watch the resulting video I see a wrong 'lenght' (like hours instead of minutes) with the last part being corrupted. It happens for single chapters and for the whole DVD.
MakeMKV says it could be a bad rip since it is 'processed by DvdFab/MacTheRipper which is known to produce damaged VOB files'. Don't understand what it exactly mean.

What can I do? I thought it was a corrupted rip so I tried some things with EditIfo or FixVTS to no avail. I really don't know where to put mine hands.

What do you think I can do?

Any help is appreciated.

[jagabo]

Try extracting the short segment you need from your VOB file(s) with mpg2cut2. That will save as MPG. You can then convert that to your final codec/container. Or use VOB2MPG to convert the VOBs to MPG.

[Tetsuro]

The video is subdivided in 6 VOB. I need the whole thing, eventually with chapters included. Eventually I could convert the single VOBs and join them? It coul be a thing to try. The bad thing is that with a media player the video is perfectly navigable in it's interity and the 'corrupted' part seems flawless.

[ndjamena]

You can get the chapters with ChapterGrabber and add them back in later. Generally I tend to make my own chapters using AVIDemux and MMG as the chapters on the disc generally aren't up to scratch, of course I mostly rip TV Shows.

Actually, if they're not copy protected anymore you could probably try muxing the VOBs into MKV's with MMG and re-encoding them from there.

[Tetsuro]

Have done everything with Avidemux. I divided the video manually in chapters (cutting it, they are episodes i needed them that way anyway), better than nothing.

Thank you for the hint.

[ndjamena]

I generally just use AVIDemux to get time-codes to copy/paste into the MMG chapter editor... but OK.

[Tetsuro]

They would not mux in MKV, I tried with MKVmerge before. Half of the episodes where so damaged that I needed to re-encode them with Avidemux, the other half could have been extracted as a 'copy' but in the end I have choosen to re-encode everything in MPEG-2 and mux them in AVI. Everything gone well.