The "Warner-Bros. Problem"... any help in sight????

[guru1968]

Hello folks,

is there any solution/workaround/fix for the 'Warner-Brothers problem'???

You may not have noticed that if You only rip english language - BUT
if You ever tried a different language or even multi-language SVCDs You most probably know what I'm talking about...
Well it's that the Warner-Bros. LOGO only has background music in the english audio-stream, within the other languages while showing the logo the music is ALWAYS taken from the ENGLISH stream, no matter what language is selected!
You can verify this by looking at the IFO:
for the english language only one stream is noted (e.g. 0x80) and for the german language TWO of them (e.g. 0x81,0x80)

The same I discovered when I ripped Tomb Raider - but there it was the 'Dolby Digital' Trailer which came after the credits, so I just stopped there...

So when demuxxing the different audio tracks, there's the REAL problem:
only the STREAM is demuxxed and not the LANGUAGE (which might be a mixture of multiple streams as specified within the IFO file)!

If there's no automated way of getting around this...
where the hell in the IFO file is the information stored WHEN to take a particular stream at any selected language????
(this would remove the trial-and-error method of manually editing the audio streams...)


Hope for *any* help in this issue!

guru


edit:
I'm not sure if this is the right section for this thread?
Maybe it should be in the ripping section... or the audio-related...?
any moderator may feel free to move it where it might get answered!

[Doom9]

use vstrip or smartripper to rip only the main movie and you shouldn't have any problem.. the first warner logo is normally vob id1 and not part of the main movie pgc so you can strip it away.

[guru1968]

Thanx for the reply, but...

actually the Warner logo *IS* part of the main movie :-(

the IFO of the main movie contains the info I was talking about (multiple audio streams for some languages).

so... how get around THIS???


guru

[koelle]

Hey guru,

SmartRipper (v 2.41) gives you the opportunity to rip only parts of the movie.
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In the "movie"-tab you will find the movie divided in "program-chains". There should be one with around 12 seconds length, which is the warner-logo.
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So just rip the longest program chain, and you have only the movie without any logos from the manufacturer or whatever.
after that just copy the .ifo-file manually or rip it with smartripper (files-tab - only select the ifo)

Should work, but I just found it out myself, so i'd appreciate your reply.