IFOEDIT error, Derrow please help

[bru]

I hope Derrow can help me with this one.

I'm trying to make a copy of "3000 miles to graceland" region 1. The entire movie only has two .ifo files which is video.ifo and vts_01.ifo. I copied all the files to the harddrive and then open the entire movie in REMPEG using cffl, reencoded to lower bitrate. The .M2V result is very bad and not watchable, there're a lot of blocks here and there from the start of the movie until the end except the beginning of the movie (the title and stuff). I changed and changed the setting of REMPEG with no luck.

I then open the VTS_01_1.VOB in vobrator, it has 3 vobids. The movie begins in vobid 3. And I notice the .M2V only started to get really bad at vobid 3. Vobid 1 and 2 are fine. So I use vobrator to extract to a new VOB file without vobid 1 and vobid 2, and then REMPEG the resulting VOB. I tried the result, and it's good. I notice that vobid 1 and vobid 2 have different GOP structure than vobid 3 and the rest of the movie, so probably REMPEG did something wrong when the GOP structure changed.

My question is, how can I remove the vobid 1 and vobid 2 in IFOEDIT ? I tried to reencode the whole movie after vobid 1 and 2 are removed using vobrator, remuxed with IFOEDIT and all. But when I tried to save the new IFO, IFOEDIT would give me an error "There's something wrong! The IFO Endsector does not match the file size". How can I correct this? I tried also to do a "Delete Playback" in the IFOEDIT "Language Menu Unit 1: Root Menu --- (entry PGC) <uses VOB-IDs: 1> and <uses VOB-IDs: 2>.

Pardon the English.
Thanks

-bru-

[Derrow]

I noticed the same problem too, on some very few movies.
If they've got more VOB-ID's, then suddenly ReMPEG2 creates a horrable m2v file.

Well I have planned to do something about that, but currently there's only one solution to it:

1. Split the VOB files by VOB-ID. (You can also strip all other VOB-ID's away with IfoEdit).
2. Transcode the VOB files containing the main movie with ReMPEG2.
3. Remux the new m2v file back into the SPLITTED VOB files containing the main movie (not into the original VOB files) with IfoEdit.

4. If you now want to keep the other VOB-ID's, then just renumber the VOB files to the order it should have (example:)
VTS_01_1.VOB (containes VOB-ID 1)
VTS_01_2.VOB (main Movie, was named VTS_01_1.VOB before)
VTS_01_3.VOB ( " )
VTS_01_4.VOB (containes VOB-ID 3)

now copy the original VTS_01_0.IFO file to the same directory, and open it with IfoEdit.
Press 'Vob Extras' and I would suggest to select following options: 'Strip streams','Correct VobUnit pointers','Correct Ifo tables'.
Even if you don't want to strip streams, just select this option, cause it will create new VOB files that are precisly 0.99GB large, like it is used for DVD's.

Now you just need to do 'Get VTS Sectors' and you are ready for burn.

[bru]

Ok, will try to do this today.

thanks a lot

-bru

[bru]

Derrow,

I don't quite understand how to do what you instructed.
Do I split the VOBs by VOB-ID using IFOEDIT or other software? I tried to split using IFOEDIT by opening VTS_01_0.IFO, but after the process, I can't save VTS_01_0.IFO, it said it has an error "There's something wrong...". If I split using vobrator, and do a rempeg on the movie only vobs, can it be remuxed using IFOEDIT by opening the original VTS_01_0.IFO?

Sorry for the dumb question & thanks.

-bru

[Derrow]

With IfoEdit, you only can strip VOB-ID's away, but you can not split a VOB file into seperate VOB files by VOB-ID.

So it depends on if you will need the other VOB-ID's later for burning.
If not, use IfoEdit to strip the other VOB-ID's away.
If yes, use VobRator or vstrip, to split the VOB file into seperate VOB files by VOB-ID.

In any case, you can use the original IFO file for remuxing.

If the error: "There's something wrong...with end sector" apears,
then go into the table 'VTSI_MAT', and adjust some of the table-start offsets, and try to resave the IFO file.
This error happens, because if you strip something away, and the IFO tables gets corrected with IfoEdit, then it might happen that the new table is much smaller then the old one, what changes the start-offset for it.

[bru]

I've stripped the VOB-ID's I don't need using IFOEDIT, and after REMPEG I muxed it back and have a complete new sets of VTS_01_1. I then copied the original VIDEO_TS.IFO, VTS_01_1.IFO and VTS_01_0.VOB. I clicked VOB Extras, and correct the VOB and tables, correct the sectors of both IFOs.

I played it on PowerDVDX, the menu is fine but when I played the movie from the menu, the movie is not starting from the beginning. Why is that so and how can I correct it?

thanks
-bru

[Derrow]

That is interesting Bru.

Can you send me the IFO files, then I'll have a look at it.

[bru]

Sent you the .IFOs to your yahoo account. I appreciate any help from you. Big thanks!

-bru

[Derrow]

You raplaced the changed/corrected VTS_01_0.IFO with the original IFO file.
That's not so good.

You should have used the corrected VTS_01_0.IFO file, cause you also used the option to correct ifo tables. But that was now for nuts. :)

[bru]

Done! I've burned it into a DVDRW, tried it using PowerDVD XP and all audio & subtitles works fine, chapters too. But when I played it on my standalone, the English subtitles can't be displayed. The other subtitles (french), audio and chapters are fine though. I tried by selecting the subtitles from menu and selecting it directly during the movie without any luck (it showed: Subtitle English On but no subs). Why is this so?

-bru

[Derrow]

This Sub-title problem is a very strange thing!

It happend to me too, with 'What woman want'.

But it's realy weired. The first time I checked the burned DVD in my settop player, I was able to switch the subtitles, but they didn't apear.
One day later, I tried it again, and suddenly they worked. :???:

Very strange effect.

[bru]

Hi Derrow,

The same happened to me too. I checked the VOB files of the main movie, some VOBIDs and some streams was stripped using IFOEDIT 0.8. I opened the first VOB file in VOBRATOR and compared it with the first VOB file of the original.

I saw that the resulting VOB file only has 0x21 subtitle streams with no 0x20, but the original VOB has both 0x20 and 0x21 for English and 0x22 and 0x23 for French. Then I opened an older VOB file of another movie that I have it worked on my standalone correctly, it has both 0x20 and 0x21 for English sub, and I didn't strip any VOBIDs for this movie.

So could it be that IFOEDIT somehow remove 0x20 when I stripped some VOBIDs so to make displaying subs in a standalone unstable ?

--bru

[Derrow]

Huh, that is strange that 0x20 is missing.
Indeed it seems, that somehow IfoEdit stripped it away.

That's not good.
I will check, if I can find a bug.