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mproper
8th July 2008, 22:52
I'm trying to use DVD Shrink to backup an entire DVD, but I have it set to not break apart the VOBs (NTFS file system). I am also shrinking to DVD-5.

However, after I do so, and I try to play back the files in VLC (by opening the folder), a good portion of the movie doesn't play. Only about the first couple chapters, then it just closes the playback window. Even using the navigation to try to go to specific chapters doesn't work

I've tried it with a few DVDs, but I guess I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
blutach
9th July 2008, 00:56
Welcome to Doom9!

Why would you have it not to split the VOBs into 1Gb chunks? This is the DVD standard.

Regards
dat720
9th July 2008, 01:20
Maybe just for Playback purposes, i do this sometimes but only when i want to do something specific, if i have stubborn dvd and need 1 big vob for demuxing or somehtign like that, the big drawback is you cannot burn the file structure with over 1gb vobs!

I've tried it with a few DVDs, but I guess I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

The part you are doing wrong is forcing the vobs to be over 1gb....

Once you do this it is no longer a standard dvd structure, this could be why VLC is having a spat, infact i'd place money on it!
mproper
9th July 2008, 02:05
Well, the reason I was doing this was because I wanted to keep the DVD structure intact (for playing back on my laptopo), but have 1 vob file that I could stream over to my PS3.

I managed to do this last week with a couple DVDs, but now I can't seem to repeat the process. Of course, I did that originally with my desktop, and now I am using my laptop. Guess I'll need to compare settings.

Here is a post of mine (http://forums.tversity.com/viewtopic.php?t=11271) at the Tversity forums that explains more of what I was trying to accomplish (along with the solution I was using).
dat720
9th July 2008, 02:24
I understand exactly what your trying to do.

And the process i use is rip dvd's to avi for playback on xbox360, and if i want to view the extras and such i pop the original disc in the xbox, because frankly i don't care about the extras most of the time, that and your method uses a but load of space, i'd rather sacrifice a bit of quality to get the movie under 2gb, if it get's under 2gb i'm happy, no 700mb rips here thanks!