A few Questions about IFOedit

[apacheman]

I have read doom9's guide for IFOedit...and im still puzzled about a few things. 2 problems:

(1)I just want to keep the movie & chapters and dump everything else (to one DVD-R).

I rip the DVD to a file on my drive. A region 1 DVD.

The DOOM9 guide says to load the vts_01_0.ifo file which i do.

The directions show several languages BUT on my ifo file i only see one [english]. Does this mean there are no other languages to rip? am I missing something? (tried 3 movies (popular titles) and the same thing)

Menu language units : 1
Language menu unit 1: [english]

The above is the only reference to languages in that particular .ifo file

I obviously select the "menu extras" button in IFOedit, then select "strip language unit" and press "OK" and once again english is the only language visible.


(2) (newbie question(s) Do i have to "transcode" the 1gig VOB files to bring the size of them down? If so, I assume i have to use Tmpeg to do so? I have FIVE 1gb vob files I assume by stripping the languages out you must "transcode" them reducing the size of the vob's to fit on one DVD-R? Does this sacrifice quality greatly? The movie i want to do is only an hour and 30 minutes long but the disk is 6 some odd gigs large.

The guide is not very good on "why" things are being done and for "what" reason and I cant visualize the project as a whole to understand WHAT is doing WHAT and that is why im having so much trouble.

Any advice is greatly appriciated as im trying to get the ball rolling.

Thank You

[SLK001]

1) You must have used the "STRIP STREAMS" option in SMARTRIPPER once. Seems that once you do this, this now becomes the "default" setting. Best to rip using FILES and select everything to send to your HD.

2) You can't use TMPG to transcode (like you want). You must use ReMPEG2 to do this, because this will retain the original GOP structure (which you must do). Or, strip out the .M2V and .AC3 audio stream of your choice, then use TMPG to transcode to a lower bitrate, then re-author using the prog of your choice (that accepts .AC3 audio streams).

To explain the "why's" of everything would be over the head of a lot of readers of the guide. Therefore, a simple step-by-step proceedure is given that can be blindly followed by most everyone.

But before you start transcoding, look for things like theatrical trailers in the same video title set as the main movie. Also, strip out all unneeded audio tracks and subpicture (subtitle) tracks.

Alas, Hollywood will sometimes make our lives a little more difficult by "over-encoding" a short program so that it won't fit on a DVD-5.

[apacheman]

As far as im aware of i have not selected the "strip treams" in smartripper but the next time i use it i will make sure "strip streams" is unselected?

but...if smartripper did that for me doesn't this just save me a step in IFOedit? do I need to ONLY do the stripping streams in IFOedit or it messes the project up?

The same question for region free in smartripper...If i do a region free in smartripper do i skip it in IFOedit? Is this not good to do?

I am going through the disk to remove unwanted extras leaving just the movie, but should i expect degraded quality from the audio/video when I transcode a 90 minute film?

thank you for replying so quickly!!!

[SLK001]

I don't believe that "region free" works in SR. I always have to use IFOEdit to do this "freeing".

A 90 minute movie would have been encoded at around 7Mbps to fill 6Gbytes. 5Mbps would have been more in line - and more than enough (essentially no perceptual increase in quality from this higher encode speed).