Spruce Won't import M2V

[deb]

Hi,

I made an m2v and ac3 for the Ten Commandments (using Smart Ripper and DVD Decrypter) and Spruce will not import it. It says the "Temporal references (zero based) are out of sequence."

Did anyone else ever have this problem? Is there a way to get around it? I've never had this problem before.

Thanks for any ideas!

Deb

[SLK001]

Yeah, had this before. I call it the infamous Spruce "warning of death". It means that your video is NOT useable by Spruce. I never was able to find a cure for this outside of re-encoding the whole thing over. Turns out that a program that I was using to edit my .MPG files was corrupting the hell out of my temporal sequences.

What did you do to get yourself into this predicament?

[deb]

Well my method is to use either Smartripper or DVD Decrypter and rip the whole DVD to my hard drive if it's small enough to fit on DVD. If it's not small enough I use the same programs to "demux to another file" - it creates one .m2v and one .ar3 file. If they are now small enough I import directly into Spruce. If not, I resize the .m2v with REMPEG and then import into Spruce. This disk was one that I had to resize with REMPEG.

This is the only movie I've had this exact problem with. I use this process for all my other copies and it appears to have worked fine. I say appears because all the DVDs play on my TV DVD player, but many of them will not play in my computer DVD drive (I use Intervideo, I think).

I tried using the Doom instructions for the same movie and stripped out all possible parts, but it was still too big. I had to use either REMPEG or TMPGENC to resize the vobs. Unfortunately, the REMPEG one had some major skipping and the TMPGENC was not useable at all.

I know it's possible to do because so many people here seem to do it successfully. I'm not sure what to try at this point - any ideas?

Thanks for the reply,
Deb

[hellmett]

Had the very same problem when trying to "back up" The Phoenix Club,

It is 6 episodes so I tried to rip them into seperate .m2v & .ac3 files so I could put them on to 2 DVD's, this I was happy with!

Everything went swimmingly until I tried to import them into Spruceup V1.1 Build 1106.

I got the same error!

I then tried tried ripping in "raw demux" Smartripper, the files were accepted up to 99% and then I got a different error - something about a damaged header etc.

I have tried EVERYTHING to sort it but to no avail.

Spruce is bust so no updates or support is available!

I WISH SOMEONE COULD SOLVE THIS PROBLEM!

Later!

hellmett

[deb]

Hi Hellmet,

I have the exact same version and build. I wonder if there is another one out there?

I also noticed that some of my dvds won't play in my computer dvd player - thjey're great in my home tv ser player though. The computer player reports an error that is similar to the one that Spruce does (but these are dvd's that spruce actually made the files for).

Deb