only 30 minutes when DVD is 230 minutes

[nsdn]

Hiyah,

Trying to back up "Walking with Dinosaurs"which is 230 minutes but is actually 6 episodes all together on one DVD.

DVD2SVCD only picks up the first 30 minute episode...I can't get it to encode the whole disk so it seems. There is only 1 relevant IFO file.even if i could encode them separately I could join them later....grrr

when i click the VOB tab (when your opening the DVD file...I see all of the relevant VOB files.....so there is no more to add...

after riping there is only one VOB file on my hard drive....:(

If i play the DVD in the player it works fine...but i noticed that after each ep...the chapter count resets to 0.

Any Sugestions?.....

[markrb]

Try ripping each episode with SmartRipper.
Then edit all the files that can be edited with a text editor and make sure all the VOB files are listed in order and the path is correct. Then proceed normally.
It should work.

Mark

[nsdn]

don't spose u could give me a hint as to which files I need to edit?

[markrb]

There are like three of them and honestly I can't remember them all.
The first is definately the .lst file, but the others elude me.
Don't edit the IFO can't be done with a text editor or the VOB's. Try opening all the others in notepad and if it's garbage just close it, but if you can see real text look for a line that might look like this:

e:\VTS_01_01.VOB

Then make sure all the VOB files are there, just add them in underneath the last one listed.

Then make sure to read the Q + A on how to pipe through internal routines. You will need to place all of the files ripped from SmartRipper into a temp directory.

This should work, but if it doesn't you may have to do each chapter by itself.

Mark

[nsdn]

Wow this has turned out to be tricky...:)

I have discovered that the DVD has differant "angles" as well....and you basically have to rip each ep individually....yet the disk only has 6 eps...but there are 12 30 min eps to rip....each one is duplicated but.....one of them has a ummmm picture in picture that opens up at certain points and narrates how a particular sequence was done...

I think its probably going to be to hard to get DVD2SVCD to handle....so I will do it manually I think....we have the technology hehe.

Thanks for your advice...

[Bob01605]

You can also use internal routines to rip also..

After the video is loaded in the CONVERSION tab. Click on the movie length tab. You should see the 6 separate episode lengths when you do. Click on the one you want and hit the "go" button. Do NOT hit another tab to check bitrare or audio or whatever. If you do DVD2SVCD usually will defaullt back to the LONGEST episode.
If I were doing that disk I would treat TWO 30 min episodes( episodes 1 and 2 ) as one encoding and put it on to ONE Cd-R - then later encode episodes 3 and 4 onto a second CD-R and later episode 5 and 6 on to a third CD-R. If you chain all the vob's together in ONE encoding session your 3 CD-R's may not break at the proper place to place two episodes on one CD-R.

Bob

[markrb]

Hey Bob01605 we are neighbors, I live in Sutton, MA.

Although using the internal routines to rip situations like this can work it does not always work the way you expect it to. You may end up ripping episode 3 when you intended to rip episode 2 and sometimes it just can't find all the episodes.

I have tried both using SmartRipper and internal routines for Disks with multiple episodes and I found the only way I could rip some was with SmartRipper.

Unfortunately with SmartRipper you can't preview the angle you are going to rip to find out if it's the one you intended. Like what happened you may end up with the making of instead.


Mark

[Bob01605]

Mark,

Yes - we are neighbors - I saw your location until you went into "cyberspace" - lol. I do use Smartripper at times BUT sometimes I have had trouble with the Smartripper rips feeding into DVD2AVI. I know about piping the "smartripper rips" through internal routines to avoid problems like this. I think we had this same discussion on the Sopranos episode rips a week or so ago .. Episodes 3 AND 4 on disk one of Sopranos ( Season 2 ) would rip just fine from Smartripper but the rip would "lock up" DVD2AVI. My feeling is that if you have to "pipe" through internal routines you may as well use them to start. I have had no problems ripping chapters or individual episodes using internal routines.

Bob

[markrb]

I had problems with Internal routines trying to rip South Park episodes. It would always only rip the first episode no matter which one I chose. Thats why I said some of the time the internal routines don't work.
If you can use the Internal Routines that is definately the best way to go in most cases.

In my orignal post I was trying to help him encode many of the episodes as one encode instead of having to do each one by itself. If you use internal routines that's the way it has to be done. If you use SmartRipper then you can combine episodes into one encode and choose how many you want in each.

If these are individual episodes then I would say the best way to do them is the way Bob01605 said. 38 minutes on each CD is a pretty good size for a SVCD.

If this is one long movie broken into sections then I would go the way I said.

For some reason I got it stuck in my head that this was one long continuous movie.

Mark