Thundercats R1

[gizzin]

Normally when I strip DVDs, I use vobblanker to blank things. And when I look at the titleset video_ts.vob it contains 613megs. It appears to be a menu or so what vobblanker says. It has a menu pgc of 14min. But when you play it, it is blank. I've never seen this before, it this just some sort of dummy file to fill space? Any help is appreciated. DVDrb is f**king great.

[dragongodz]

It has a menu pgc of 14min. But when you play it, it is blank. I've never seen this before

i have. i have seen it on the odd dvd in the past with anywhere from a few minutes to 30+ minutes. i simply turned them to still frames, thus decimating the size greatly, and never had any problems.

dont ask me what dvds these were as it was a while ago.

[stereo]

21 Grams (PAL, Scandinavian) has 640 MB worth of absolutely nothing (= 2 x 5 minutes of black screen, unreferenced) in the VIDEO_TS.VOB and VTS_01_0.VOB combined. I've seen this on a few other discs over the years. I guess, it's just there to make it harder to make a decent looking backup. As I recall, I just blanked it in VobBlanker as per usual.

[blutach]

There's stacks of them around. The idea is to lower the transcoder's/encoder's quality if the dumb user doesn't blank them first. You also see huge fake VTSs on some DVDs with advanced protection with the same objective.

Either blank them with VobBlanker, use MenuShrink (http://www.dvdr-digest.com/software/menushrink.html) or even remove the whole menu with PgcEdit (http://www.videohelp.com/~r0lZ/pgcedit/index.html) (if there are no buttons in the VMGM domain).

Regards