Guru's unite... (and help me)

[pbavinck]

I appreciate your time looking at this!

I am making a back-up of the PAL version of the Vertical Limit DVD.
I ripped the DVD using SmartRipper and am unable to rip it again.

The DVD (the movie part that is) consists of 1 IFO file and 28 VOB files!
I use flask with bbMPEG to encode/mux to mpeg (SVCD) using dutch subtitles.

1. Flask is unable to read the IFO file. I have read over 50 forum messages how to solve
this and tried them all (thunder mism, dvd mism, ccs mism, etc.). NONE WORKED for this
IFO file. I can open the first VOB file, which will open the next 8 as well as one VOB.
- this does not give me subtitles

2. Even if flaks was able to open the IFO would it have opened all vob's or just 9
- in that case, how about the other 19 vob's and their subtitles.

My questions:
- Is their any way I can tell Flask to get the Dutch subtitles without the IFO file?
- Can I open more than (i.e. all) VOB's to encode at once instead of 9 VOB's (with subs)?
- Can I somehow specify how many (e.g. just 4) VOB's to encode (with subs)?

Thank you for your wisdom!

Peter

[vitualis]

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On 2001-08-31 04:56:22, pbavinck wrote:
I appreciate your time looking at this!

The DVD (the movie part that is) consists of 1 IFO file and 28 VOB files! </BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><HR size=1 color=black></TD></TR></TABLE>

Are you sure?? The vobs have the following filename structure:
VTS_??_?.VOB

That is, for any VTS_?? set, there can only by 9 vob files. Are you sure you ripped the movie correctly? In any case, did you rip in "File Mode" rather than "Movie Mode" with Smartripper?

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- in that case, how about the other 19 vob's and their subtitles.</BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><HR size=1 color=black></TD></TR></TABLE>

You have to open the IFO to get the subtitles. Furthermore, the vob files must be in the original structure on the DVD as FlaskMPEG uses it's own IFO parser. I bet that on the original DVD, the main movie will not have spanned over more than 9 VOB files.

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No.

Regards,
Michael Tam

[pbavinck]

Michael,

Thanks for the reply.

I used the movie ripping option (not file). The movie had like 1 title -> 1 angle -> many chapters mostly with 1 but some with more cells.
I think SmartRipper (based on my perhaps wrong settings) created a vob file for every chapter and there are definitely more than 9 chapters.

The file names go from vts_05_1 to vts_05_28. vts_01_XX to vts_04_XX and vts_06_XX and up were extra's; trailers, interviews and "the making of...".

I only ripped the movie part.

Could it be that this is also causing flask to be unable to read the IFO? Like flask expects 9 or less vob files?

Any ideas are welcome.

Peter

[hitechjunkie]

i did vertical limit a month ago and i believe it was only 7 VOBs. that "one VOB per chapter" theory is probably what happened.

looks like u gotta re-rip...

[pbavinck]

hitechjunky,

bollocks, that was the one thing I couldn't try (re-rip that is). Any way, I gues I'll just do all 28 vob's and forget about the subtitles (I have not been able to get frameserving to work and add the subs in some other way, like VirtualDub).

Peter