Ripping and encoding the Simpsons Season 1

[TecH no GeeK]

Ripping
Well i borrowed the simpsons season one from the library so i have to rip the vob files soon. i have tried dvd decryptor following pinoy22o1's divx newbie guide but it seems that i only rip the first episode. i tried ripping to different folders and that seemed to have worked. this is how i set it up with the folders.

Simpsons (episode 1)->new folder (episode 2)
->new folder(2) (episode 3)
so forth...until episode 6 in new folder(5)

when i try to open the .ifo file in let's say new folder dvdx 1.8 gets an error and closes. with this i am only able to use the first episode. i have to give the dvds back in two days so i have to make sure that i can get all of these .vob files onto my hard drive before then. anyone able to help.

Encoding
When i tried to encode the first episode i used dvdx 1.8a. there were several things in the output settings box that were different so i might've fubared something along the way. after encoding was finished i played the .avi file and the video was all fine and dandy but the audio was a little chopped up and it would skip every now and then sometimes making it inaudible. is it something with the audio encoding? have i done something wrong?

[TecH no GeeK]

please someone help.

[macleod]

I had the same issue with Star Trek. It is basically more than one episode on the DVD. Don't know if this is the best way, but it was my way. I used the DVD ripper for XP (can't remember what it is called at work right now). and loaded the DVD up. In the main windeor for CladXP (I sorta think that is what it was called), when it loads the dvd, there will be each of the shows in the bottom window (lets say there were four shows on the dvd, then there will be four shows in the drop down box). I check options to frameserve and then rip each of them (after one is done, I move the entire folder to something else) one after the other. Once that is all done, I use TMPGENC (I tried to use CCE, but I cant get it to work for this special way of doing things), open up the frameserve file, put in the audio wav file, change the options in TMGENCE for 352x480(CVD) and other settings and let it encode.

This is short, possibly confusing, and has no pictures, but it sounded as if you were in a hurry and didnt want to pay the library late fee......

[TecH no GeeK]

thanks macleod. i'll try that asap since 24 is on in 45 minutes.

anyone else have a different way just in case this one craps out on me.

[TecH no GeeK]

bump. anyone?

[TecH no GeeK]

c'mon over 130 views and only one person can/is willing to help me out? please i really need to do this.

[DigiToast]

I have an anime set (El Hazard) that has multiple episodes per disc. Here's a quick outline of how I dealt with it.. although it may (or may not) apply to the Simpsons.

Basically, I loaded up DVD Decryptor and went to IFO mode and selected which episodes I wanted to rip out from there.

So as an outline, my DVD is as follows
VTS_01 PGC1 (Episode 1; 9 Chapters)
VTS_02 PGC1 (Episode 2 & 3, 17 Chapters)
VTS_03 PGC1 (Episode 4; 9 Chapters)

All I did after figuring out the layout on the DVD, is select which PGC I wanted (or individual chapters in the case of 2 and 3), went into stream processing, and used demux stream processing option to get the mpeg2 stream and the ac3 stream for each episode. From there, I took those things and made vcds from the mess I had. Since you're probably trying to make DVDs and not VCDs, you could probably just load up the streams in DVDMaestro, SpruceUP, or the likes and author+remux everything in one go at it.. Then simply export and write the disc.

Forgot to add this earlier.. make sure that if you're going to demux it, that you go into Tools | Settings and disable the file splitting. Otherwise, you may (or may not... I did) have problems getting the split files to load later on.

[TecH no GeeK]

a little late but still pretty good. i sort of figured it out. i just ripped each stream individually in dvd decryptor. just ripped the video and ac3 stream. didn't choose demux. may or may not be good. i'll take the dvds out later. i think my dvd-rom is crapping out tho. after a while it would just lock up. i had to restart the computer to open it up.

[TecH no GeeK]

any more suggestions?

[wulf109]

DVD Decrypter will identify each episode as a "movie" in it's IFO mode. I've done it with TNG episodes. Create a directory for each episode and rip each "movie" to it's own directory. I would use Tmpeg to do the encode.
The all-in one programs,at least in my expierence,do not work.