All sorts of problems ripping

[Heywould3]

I have been having a hellofa time ripping DVDs i have tried prolly 10 times and only got one good rip. i have tried DVD2svcd DVD2AVI cce tmpg all the regular things. im not exactly new to encoding but pretty new to ripping my dvds. i have been trying to backup my eagles hell freezes over DVD and keep getting floating point error about 30% through the conversion process.. both TMPG and CCE do it. i used smart ripper to ripp the vob files to the hd and then tried dvd2avi and it seemed to work but all i got was static (white noise) for video. so i tried DVD2svcd and tried both encders tmpg and cce both crap out.. WTF.. is there and easy way to convert the VOB files to MPG? i looked at teh DVD how to guide and still had troubles. THE DVD plays fine and ripps to hd fine its always teh re-encoding.. i also tried flask that jsut crashes..i have 2 audio tracks one is DTS the other is PCM i know there are issues with trying to ripp DTS so i have been usign the PCM track. I have been able to extract the audio to wav no problem and vob files no problem..

ALSO what program can i use to JUST encode the VOB files.. DVD2SVCD only lets you chose RIP& encode or just RIP how do i just ENCODE if i already ripped.. i hate having to re rip everytime i have to start over from a fialed attempt i still havethe VOB on my HD

thanks for any help
my system

2000+ AMD XP
512 apacer DDR CL2
2 ibm 60 gigers raid striping(boot drive)
1 30 gig ibm (backup)
TDK 24x10x40 CDRW
16X toshiba DVD
GF2 MX400
WINDOWS XP
dual boot
WIN 98se

[sumibas]

i use cce and DVDx 1.8a to rip all my dvd's. the only thing is that you can only have a constant bit rate rip. i use about 1450 bit rate on the CCE for the rip. Try this out it is the fatest and best VCD i can get on my one + year experience of DVD ripping. I have done about 20+ ripps with this and say what i had only one bad rip that is because i made some mistake.
try this out.

[poopyhead]

btw....the best method is prolly still smartripper->dvd2avi->tmpgenc

if u followed sefy's newbie guide, u shouldn't have had any problems...

did you encode under winXP or win98...? win98 shouldn't give u any problems

[mrbass]

ALSO what program can i use to JUST encode the VOB files.. DVD2SVCD only lets you chose RIP& encode or just RIP how do i just ENCODE if i already ripped.. i hate having to re rip everytime i have to start over from a fialed attempt i still havethe VOB on my HD

are you serious...this tells me you've read zero guides, references, faqs, etc. It's a matter of unchecking dvdrip and clicking the file icon left of the cd icon.

I've done eagles hell freezes over and it went just fine.

[Heywould3]

thanks guys... ill re-try im sure its me.. i have read guides. ill redo it the way i got it to work the first time. with smart rip dvd2avi and tmpg.. problem is that i kept getting floating point errors in tmpg while trying to do the eagles.. ill re try


again

thanks

[mrbass]

rip with internal routines and your issues should disappear. My strong guess is the problem lies with smartripper.