Ripping from the DVD Drive

[Big_Jit]

I am Trying to Rip the Pearl Harbor DVD from the Drive and I 'm getting a problem. Let me explain:

DVD -> VCD Standard

I tried to use DVD2SVCD to rip the DVD but when it goes to encode in TMPGEnc, where you usually see the Video it says that avisynth found a read error or something.

If I try to open the DVD in DVD2Avi I get a Picture with huge green blocks that go across the screen.

I can open and convert using DVDx but the sound has little pops and parts of the video have some small jerks every once in a while...

I don't wanna rip the DVD to the hard Drive first because I don't have the Disc Space...

I thought about ripping the vob's one at a time and then joining the output mpegs together once they're finished but wouldn't that produce little pops in the a/v at each joined part?

I've used DVD2SVCD to Rip DVD's from the drive before without a problem and the video's played back flawlessly but Pearl Harbor is the only one that has given me a problem...

Can somebody Help?...

[xnakX]

DVD2SVCD as far as i know will not rip directly form the DVD drive like DVDX. but i was geting the same error that you are describing and i found out it was related to ram. I changed the chip and all was well. there is also a lot of other info about this problem on doom9's site

http://www.doom.org

[xnakX]

oh yeah make sure that you do not have Vdub's avi handler active at the time of conversion and try and use CCE instead.

[Big_Jit]

Thanks for the info!...

I've found that if I rip the dvd files to the hard drive then it will work properly and I think this is because the DVD has to be decrypted and when using DVD2SVCD it doesn't get decrypted so DVDx was the solution.

But I have 320 MB of RAM but you say that it could be the chip type. Do you mean brand or speed or...

The link you posted for doom9 says that it will be shutting down

[xnakX]

opps real sorry about that
http://www.doom9.org

and about the memory i just had a bad stick. I relaced it with a new on and all is well.