DVD Ripping WITH working original menus

[VinnySem]

Hi gents/ladies (s'cuse me for being presumptious )..

I have followed just about every guide I could find to get fully functional original menus. The tools I have been using are IFOEdit, Smartripper, ReMPEG and Nero. I have followed Derrow's and Doom9's giudes to the letter. I get the menu files burned to DVD, but I cannot access them from either my set-top player or the DVD-ROM in my PC.

Are fully functional original menus a possibility, or is the needle lying again?

Thanks for all your help & insight.

[garciagu]

Hi,
I used DVD DVD decrypter and IfoEdit. At first I didn't have the original menus either.

I follow all the directions except that there was no VIDEO_TS.VOB so I could only copy VIDEO_TS.IFO and VIDEO_TS.BUF to each of the two folders as per the IfoEdit instructions.

Then I realized that the information on VTS_01_0.VOB is the one that had the original menus, so I copy it to both DVDs and then the original menus worked.

I guess then, the menu file could be named either VIDEO_TS.VOB or VTS_01_0.VOB.

Please let me know if this was helpful to you.

Regards,

-g

[mojo2185]

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[VinnySem]

Which IFOEdit instructions do you use, garciagu? I tried copying the vts_01_0.vob to the directory, but I still do not get working menus. If I copy the original video_ts.ifo files, the menus come up, but the chapter sequences are all messed up and the movie does not play in the proper order.

[marcovan]

Try this site:
http://mpucoder.kewlhair.com/derrow/#Faq

It worked wonders for me. Follow it to the letter specially the IDIOTS guide to keeping the menu.

[VinnySem]

I have followed Derrow's guide to the letter. The menus stop working if I have to transcode the movie to a lower bitrate, which is even the case in the example in his IDIOTS guide.

[garciagu]

Hi Vinny,

I used Doom9's Ifoedit guides. I didn't throw anything away, I did a 1:1 including all languages and subtitles.

Next time I'll skip the DVD Decrypter part and just copy the files.

Remember to update the chapter in the VIDEO_TS.IFO so that it knows how many chapters are on each DVD.