Rebuilding VIDEO_TS.IFO

[pdontthink]

Hello,

I have the semi-frequent problem that I have no VIDEO_TS.IFO file for a rip that I now want to burn. ImgBurn nor Nero like this, of course, and I fully accept responsibility that my rip is non-standard . I used DVD Decrypter and ripped PER-CHAPTER, so it only created VTS_01_0.IFO and a vob for each chapter... yes, I did have a reason to do that at the time and I hadn't planned to need to re-burn a DVD from it.

So I'm not interested in "you should just re-rip it the right way"-type responses, because I know how to do that, but that is not an option. Instead, I am trying to learn how to import the chapter rips and build a new VIDEO_TS.IFO and reburn after that.

After some research, I found FixVTS, but it too seems to need the original VIDEO_TS.IFO. On to slightly more complex solutions, I turned to IfoEdit, which supposedly should be able to do anything I want... but when I open the VTS_01_0.IFO (and it sees DVD Decrypter's Stream Information file - good), the "Create IFOs" button is still disabled. If I go to VOB Extras->Create new IFOs and accept the defaults and press OK, I get an error "No Navigation-pack found in VOB file(s)! Looks like you're dealing with invalid VOB file(s)." I don't think they'd be invalid per se (they play fine), just that they were ripped per-chapter must be throwing IfoEdit off(?).

Frustrated that this shouldn't be so hard (yeah very typical newbie thing to do, I know), I resorted to pulling the chapters into Adobe Premier Elements. Worked great, EXCEPT Premier does not know about the stream information I assume, which is why the resulting image it created had horribly skewed audio. :-)

I am willing to sit down with a tutorial and learn a tool in order to do this, but it is just not clear which tool can do the job. I was just reading about DVD Rebuilder, which looked promising but then saw some forum posts that suggested that it too would need the original VIDEO_TS.IFO file.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

TIA!

[neuron2]

but that is not an option Why is it not an option?

[r0lZ]

Try to use VidChanger before IfoEdit, to reorganize the VOB and Cell IDs.

[pdontthink]

Why is it not an option?

Isn't there pretty much only one answer to this question? The disc is not on hand. No, it's not copyrighted material I rented or borrowed and returned; it's one-off proprietary content that is now thousands of miles away. As I already said in my post, I understand the reasons that re-ripping is preferred and I know how to do that. I also understand that there are a lot of fools who re-post this kind of question without understanding any of the issues involved, and I tried my best to express more understanding and willingness to go do the hard stuff if someone pointed me in the right direction (as you'll see in my next post, I figured it out on my own anyway). Simply asking me to re-rip it when I clearly stated that I cannot is a waste of everyone's time.

[pdontthink]

Try to use VidChanger before IfoEdit, to reorganize the VOB and Cell IDs.

Thank you, rOIZ. The problem turned out to be even more simple than that. What I did not realize was that after starting up IfoEdit, you don't have to first click the "Open" button and open the VOB files, which is what I was doing. You simply start IfoEdit and immediately click "Create IFOs" without loading anything. The subsequent dialog allows you to point to the needed VOB files.

Renaming the files to VTS_01_1.VOB, VTS_01_2.VOB, etc. was also necessary, as pointed out by this excellent and succinct post describing how to use this feature in IfoEdit:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=765854#post765854

[blutach]

Isn't there pretty much only one answer to this question? The disc is not on hand. No, it's not copyrighted material I rented or borrowed and returned; it's one-off proprietary content that is now thousands of miles away. As I already said in my post, I understand the reasons that re-ripping is preferred and I know how to do that. I also understand that there are a lot of fools who re-post this kind of question without understanding any of the issues involved, and I tried my best to express more understanding and willingness to go do the hard stuff if someone pointed me in the right direction (as you'll see in my next post, I figured it out on my own anyway). Simply asking me to re-rip it when I clearly stated that I cannot is a waste of everyone's time.
I'm glad you sorted out your problem and equally happy that you understand that many "fools" post questions about discs they do not own, but whether the disc is a rented movie or some industrial training DVD, if the content is proprietary (as you say) and not simply someone's home videos, then rule 6 and the announcement at the top of the Newbies forum comes into play.

So, I will have to close this thread.

Regards