2part dvd cant find the 2nd part!

[moviemandvd]

hello i just got Journey to the center of the Earth. Its a single dvd with 2 parts. when i look at the contents of the dvd there are:

Video_ts.ifo
Video_ts.vob
Vts_01_0.ifo
Vts_01_0.vob
Vts_01_1.vob
Vts_01_2.vob
Vts_01_3.vob
Vts_01_4.vob
Vts_01_5.vob
Vts_01_6.vob
Vts_01_7.vob
Vts_01_8.vob

when i load the vts_01_0.ifo, (the biggest file), it only says 94.5 mins of movie. That is exactly the first part of the dvd. The movie time stated on the dvd is 139 mins. I cant figure out how to load the second part of the dvd into dvd2svcd. can anyone help me out? thanks

[mrbass]

use smartripper and choose the approriate angle....if your not sure if you ripped the movie instead of bonus material you can view the vob files with WinDVD.

[moviemandvd]

ok once i rip the vobs with smart ripper how do i have dvd2svcd continue from there? is there a way?

[markrb]

Hope your disk is big or you have 2 disks, because the way that works best (as explained to me by DVD2SVCD) takes double the ripping space. If not there are potential issues, but instead of selecting activate DVD ripping like normal uncheck that and continue normally after you rip with SmartRipper.

First use Smartripper to rip the VOB files into a temp directory of your choosing. Then start up DVD2SVCD and select ripping as normal, but instead of selecting the DVD select the IFO file ripped by Smartripper. Make sure the directory you are ripping to with DVD2SVCD is not the same as the directory with the Smartripper files. According to DVD2SVCD doing it this way will elimate most potential problems.

Now a thing to remember is that the IFO file may not show the correct time. If not as long as you have all the VOB files that you need ripped it makes no difference.

You may want to check the VOB files to be sure you ripped everything that you need before starting a lengthy encode just to discover you only got half the movie. If so do the following.
Rip just like I said with SmartRipper. Start up DVD2AVI manually in you DVD2SVCD directory. Select File: Open and then select your first ripped VOB file. Use the slider on the bottom of the screen to see if you got the whole movie. If so exit and continue like I stated above with DVD2SVCD. If not that means you will most likely have to do a more complicated second rip and that will take more time to explain. I will try and help with that if it's needed.

Is this disk by any chance 2 sided? By this does half the movie exist on each side or is it all on one side of the DVD?

Good Luck,
Mark

[moviemandvd]

thankyou for your help i will try it in a few minutes and let you no how it goes. the disc is one sided not 2 sided.

[moviemandvd]

ok i ripped the vobs using smart rip and it gave me vobs 1,4-8 is skipped a few. the time of the movie in dvd2avi seems to be correct. so i disabled active dvd ripping and loaded the vobs off the hard disk. everything seems to be ok except that in dvd2avi, an audio format isnt showing up and when dvd2avi is finished it gives me "tooLame failed, switching to TMPGEnc Audio Encoding!". so there is a problem please tell me what to do! thanks. --------------------------------------------------------
- 12/11/01 2:47:34 AM
- DVD to SVCD Conversion
- DVD2SVCD ver. 1.0.4 build 2
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Initializing
Initializing finished.

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- 12/11/01 2:47:38 AM
- DVD2AVI
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Creating DVD2AVI INI file:
- C:\dvdrip\movie\DVD2AVI.INI

Variable settings:
iDCT_Algorithm: 32-bit SSE MMX

Executing DVD2AVI.
Creating DVD2AVI project file.
Closing program
Analyzing DVD2AVI Project file
Force Film activated!
Framerate: 23976
DVD2AVI processing done.

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- 12/11/01 2:50:46 AM
- Free on drive C: 16378.00 mb
- AUDIO Extraction
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Audio stream 0 was not found!
Audio extraction finished.

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- 12/11/01 2:50:47 AM
- Free on drive C: 16378.00 mb
- AUDIO conversion
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Downmixing AC3 Stream. Filename: C:\dvdrip\movie\Extracted_audio_stream_1
Autodetecting Azid dB Gain offset
Executing Azid. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Azid\azid.exe" -c normal -g30db -N -L -3db "C:\dvdrip\movie\Extracted_audio_stream_1" "C:\dvdrip\movie\DownmixedAudioSt1-48KHz.wav" >"C:\dvdrip\movie\Azid.log"
Autodetection of dB offset finished
Gain offset: 15.00dB
Executing Azid. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Azid\azid.exe" -c normal -g15.00db -L -3db "C:\dvdrip\movie\Extracted_audio_stream_1" "C:\dvdrip\movie\DownmixedAudioSt1-48KHz.wav"
Downmixing of C:\dvdrip\movie\Extracted_audio_stream_1 finished.

No delay and no WAV Downsampling.

Encoding wav file to mp2.
Executing tooLame. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\tooLame\toolame.exe" -m s -b 128 -e "C:\dvdrip\movie\FinalAudioSt1.wav" "C:\dvdrip\movie\Encoded_audio_stream_1.mp2"
tooLame failed, switching to TMPGEnc Audio Encoding!
Creating TMPGEnc Settings. Filename:
- C:\dvdrip\movie\TMPGEnc_Settings.MCF
Executing TMPGEnc
Processing audio.

[markrb]

To answer the first part of your question. In DVD2SVCD audio is disabled in DVD2AVI. DVD2SVCD uses internal routines for audio and not DVD2AVI.

As for why Toolame died I really don't know. I have had Azid die on me when I accdently chose and audio stream that really isn't there, but never had Toolame die.

My only suggestion is to try Piping it through the internal ripper after you have used Smart Ripper. If you get into CCE fine you can erase the Smart ripped files to save some space.
Make sure that your directory that the Smartripped files is different from the place where you are putting the final ripped files.

Mark

[moviemandvd]

no i no that you arnt suppose to hear the audio, but next to where is says "format" under audio in dvd2avi its blank...ie not reading an audio stream. This problem is only when using dvd2avi through dvd2svcd. when i load the vobs on my own in dvd2avi the audio format is present. its very odd! any explaination?

[markrb]

Yes that is correct. That is the way DVD2AVI works with DVD2SVCD. It does nothing at all to the audio. All you will see is maybe a time stamp.

The reason why when you load it manually you see it is that most likely an audio mode is selected in the drop down. In DVD2SVCD it is unselected on purpose.

If you do video encodes manually you will get the best encode if you unselect audio and have another program do that part. Exactly as DVD2SVCD does it.

Confirm this yourself. Start up DVD2AVI. Select Audio. Select Track. Make it NONE. Use the program and look at what you see. You should see nothing in the audio section.

Mark

[moviemandvd]

ok that explains it....thanks