Issues with Xvid, first ~10 mins have grey screen and stuttering sound

[daniel.pool]

Hi,

I'm trying to transcode my copies of star wars (the digitally remastered originals) to Xvid. The problem is the first 10 mins will render the video as a grey screen with cycling sound. After around 10 mins the movie will play fine.

I've done a search for "grey screen" or "star wars" but found little to help.

Has anyone seen something similar or have options to suggest?

Cheers,
~Dan

[manono]

Welcome to the forum.

First, make sure you decrypt it correctly, with only the angle you want.

[daniel.pool]

Welcome to the forum.

First, make sure you decrypt it correctly, with only the angle you want.

Thanks for the reply. I'm currently using AnyDVD HD to decrypt and pulling out angle #1 with CloneDVD. I'm then using AutoGK to take it to avi format. It's at the AutoGK part that I'm getting the problems, till then it'll play back fine.

I'm running (so far as I understand) from the .IFO, as I'm being prompted to select the angle again in AutoGK.

[manono]

These are the middle 3 Star Wars films, right (4, 5, and 6, the 1970s and 80s movies)? If you're willing to start over try decrypting using DVD Decrypter in IFO Mode. This is a problem I've never heard of and naturally many, many, people would have already run those films through AutoGK.

Yeah, if you want the alien talk subs, you have to load the IFO and not the VOBs.

[daniel.pool]

These are the middle 3 Star Wars films, right (4, 5, and 6, the 1970s and 80s movies)? If you're willing to start over try decrypting using DVD Decrypter in IFO Mode. This is a problem I've never heard of and naturally many, many, people would have already run those films through AutoGK.

Yeah, if you want the alien talk subs, you have to load the IFO and not the VOBs.

Yeah, these are the 70/80 movies. What you said about angles got me thinking though. What if the title credits flipped angles (I believe that some studios do this). Anyway, I'm going to try with DVD Decrypter as suggested, but will also try ripping all the angles to see if that works.

Cheers for your help, will update if I have any success or more info.

[manono]

What if the title credits flipped angles (I believe that some studios do this).
That's what led me to suspects an angle problem - that you mentioned stuttering and cycling audio. Since the opening scroll does flip back and forth between different languages, that could explain it.