Finding trailers on DVDs

[tominator]

Hi

Im about to rip a large number of DVDs and would like to extract both the movie and the trailer.

Ive found that the movie almost always is the longest clip on the DVD which makes it easy to automate.

Trailers on the other hand are harder since a lot of DVDs have 10 or so trailers for different movies on one DVD.

Is there any type of standard or anything else that could help me identify the trailer that goes with the movie on the DVD automatically?

If not, what tools would you suggest for doing it manually?

[setarip_old]

Is there any type of standard Unfortunately, no - just count on most SONY releases to have "tons" of trailers, old and current, used as filler on SONY DVDs...

[tominator]

Thats what I was afraid of. Thanks anyway.

[setarip_old]

Thanks anyway.As always, my pleasure ;>}

[tominator]

As always, my pleasure ;>}

Btw, you wouldnt happen to know of a tool that would let me view the clips on the DVD without ripping them first? Im aware I can do this with DVD Fab HD Decrypter but the preview is very small.

[setarip_old]

Any software (exclusive or multi-purpose) DVD player, including VLC - or your standalone DVD player...

[foxyshadis]

DVD Shrink lets you preview each title as well.

[tominator]

DVD Shrink lets you preview each title as well.

Thank you! DVDShrink has some serious kickassness :) This made my day.

[cdanddvdpublisher]

DVDShrink has some serious kickassness :) This made my day.

Lol. Kickassness is a great word for it. :D

[miltHTPC]

I've done a bunch of trailer extraction. I don't know how to
automate it -- I do it by hand. I recommend CloneDVD2 (and
AnyDVD). It has a very simple interface and works well.

I have encountered four different kinds of trailers on DVDs:
1) Each trailer a title by itself.
2) Each trailer a chapter by itself, maybe several titles holding
trailer chapters
3) Several trailers in a single chapter, usually in a single title.
4) Trailers in the menu system, not in titles.

I usually play the DVD first to search thru the menus and make
a list of the trailers on the DVD. I also note the title
structure of the trailers as I play them (easy to do in Media
Center by pressing the play button, don't know how to do it
with other players). Then, when you pull up the DVD in
CloneDVD2, the titles are sorted by length. Start from the
bottom (shortest time) and work up looking for titles of the
right length. Normal trailers of type 1) are 2:30 to 3:00.
Sometimes there are teaser trailers that are shorter.
Trailers of types 2) and 3) will be in longer titles, maybe up to
10 minutes. CloneDVD2 will let you extract down to the
chapter level quickly and easily with just a few clicks. Thus
with types 1) and 2), use CloneDVD2 and you are done. With
type 3), you need to use CloneDVD2 and post process to get
down to the individual trailer. I use Adobe Premiere Elements
3.0 for this and it works well, but it is a little slow at rendering
the output.

For trailers of type 4), I haven't yet worked out a good
technique. I can get at the trailers with PGCDemux in
cell mode, but they frequently have an audio sync problem.
I am still working on this.

You speak of looking on a DVD for the trailer of that movie.
DVDs only have their own trailer a fraction of the time. If
you want to build up a trailer library, you need to extract
all the trailers on each DVD you scan and put them all into your
library.

I also wish there was an automated method to do this, but I think
there is so much variation in how and what trailers are encoded
on a DVD its not likely this is possible.

--Milt--

[tominator]

Thanks a lot!

All though I don't agree about how seldom trailers appear on their own DVDs. Id have to say about 60% of the movies I have come with the trailer. Guessing it has to do with whatever the content owner wants to put on the DVD though.