Please Help Me Rip Pearl Harbor

[warrior15r]

Those of you who have pearl harbor ripped, how did you do it?? AS we all know Pearl Harbor is a two cd movie. THe first cd is 2hours like, the second cd is about 45 minutes long. I want to rip the movie onto 2 cds. How do I do this using Gnot?? I mean, i want to split the movie right down the middle to like 695mb each cd. I tried to merge the movie with nandub then splitting it in half but it would let me merge the files because the audio streams don't match. Is it possible to merge the movie together to get a even split? Someone help!

[manono]

Are you saying that you encoded both parts and then tried to join them, so that you could split them where you wanted? And it wouldn't because the "Audio Streams don't match"? And the audio for both parts was done exactly the same way (bit rate and audio delay)?

If that's true, then that's a tough one. I might suggest stripping the audio out, and then trying to merge the 2 video portions. If that works, then you're more than half way there. Merge the Audio files (you might have to merge the WAV files and reencode to MP3, if that's what you were using, because I don't know of programs that will merge MP3, although perhaps there are some). And if you can do that, then rejoin it to the video and split.

[seoulsteve]

i would just create a new .d2v file and go from there. it's starting over again, but....well, it's what i would do. my reason is because chances are that the bitrate for the first disc's avi would be different from the bitrate of the second disc's avi. encode the discs seperately and you're most likely going to get videos of differing quality. (that is unless you fix bitrate and not file size. but it sounds like warrior15r is going for file size rather than bitrate)

so, to start again:

in DVD2AVI, before pressing OK after you load up your the .vob's from the first disc of Pearl harbour, press ADD and add the 'vob's from the second disc of Pearl Harbour. then hit OK. the resulting .d2v will give you an index of the whole movie so that you can easily make and then split the 1.4GB .avi into two even 700mb files over 2 CD's.

by the way, how was the video quality of your first Pearl Harbour encode? mine didn't look so good.

[warrior15r]

WoW! Thank you! You just taught me something new! I'll give it a try. My quality was pretty good actually. I just set it at 1390 mb and audio at 160kbps. Then i just lowered the resolution a little so that compressibility was above 40% (mine was 46%). Hope that helps.

[dragoman]

I had a similar problem with that movie...

Why they split the movie up I'll never know....pissed me off actually, trying to merge the vob's so that the whole movie would encode at once....

Didn't work.

dragoman

[Acaila]

I must be the odd ball here, but I've got the original movie on a single DVD, not two. Not even dual-sides. Maybe it's a region difference? I have region 2 PAL.

I'm putting it onto 2 CD's (of course!) using XviD video and Vorbis audio in OGG format. Just to see how it would look.

[dragoman]

Hi,

I think that is a region difference. I got the NTSC one from Netflix and it came on two different dvds....most annoying.

dragoman

[warrior15r]

Follow seoulsteve's advice. It works to Perfection.

[octapus]

Question for Acaila:

How are you goin to split OGG format in two CDs?
From what i know ogg vorbis sound format cannot be entered within an avi file. The only way would be to insert the ogg vorbis sound stream and the xvid video into an OGG file, which cannot be cut. If you had only a vorbis ogg stream then you could cut the file with a special tool given in ogg package.

[Acaila]

I am aware of that problem. I would just split the ac3 audio into two ogg vorbis audio files, not convert first split later. The problem is knowing where to cut, but once you know how large both streams are it shouldn't be a problem. So you end up with four halves (2 video, 2 audio) instead of only 2 (1 video, 1 audio).
The video and audio of course then would be multiplexed into the ogg format.