Ripping Disneys Dumbo

[Gryphon75]

Alright here's the problem. I can do the rip and get the ifo reworked, yaddi yaddi yadda. The problem is that when I go to watch the movie the opening title section jumps back and forth between english text and Spanish Text. It also does this later on in the movie when there are some more signs. If anyone has run into this problem please help me out. Thanks.

[magnus73]

Disney movies are multi-angle.

You need vStrip or IfoEdit 0.82b2, look for it on the IfoEdit homepage.

There's a guide but I think it's fairly self-explanatory.

/mag

[SkoalWintergreen]

who cares? anyone watching dumbo is probably not smart enough to figure out english from spanish in text anyway, and worse case scenario half this damn country speaks spanish anyway these days, so why not let them get started at a young age?

[preston]

SkoalWintergreen, your ignorance is showing. First, one might want to rip Dumbo for a child's use, as I do. Children are remarkably hard on DVDs, so I actually get a lot of value out of backups. No one appreciates backups like parents.

Moreover, while Dumbo may not rise to other Disney animation, from Snow White to the Lion King, in quality, the Pink Elephant sequence is remarkable, and life would be just a little duller without the Magic Feather, which has actually entered the language, originally from Dumbo.

Hmm. Who's the Dumbo?

By the way, it is a challenge to rip using the Decrypter/Ifoedit strategy and I ended up re-encoding the VOBs with Decrypter to MPEG2 and then writing it with Ulead VS6 (so I could add menus and my own chapter points). I had to do this with Pocahontas, too, but no other Disney animation.

[Anthony]

Preston,
I think a little bit of your ignorance is showing as well. I understand your point of view and getting Disney movies to work after ripping does take some "know-how" but the ignorance piece is; why are you responding to something that was last posted in Jan 2002 (11-months ago):confused:

[preston]

I didn't like it being the last entry on the thread; I found it searching for help with Dumbo myself. I've had good experiences following the guides, but Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas and Dumbo required me to re-encode rather than just stripping, because attempts to remove the other angles, etc. failed.

By failed, I mean that, having stripped out everything but the main movie using IFOEDIT, I can't get the IFOs to work, even if I delete them and use create ifos from IFOEDIT. On play, the movie just stops at various points. I suppose I could use IFOEDIT to remove these errant pointers, but that is more work than re-encoding, which works fine.

[Anthony]

Disney movies are a bit challenging (like you, kids get a hold of them and you'd be surprised how well they fly; kinda lethal at times) so backing up made sense.

The way I did it was using vobrator first to look at all the ID's in the main movie and choosing which ones I wanted to keep. If there are multiple languages on them (there always is) depending how many there are, there would always be that many ID's of a particular scene. The first one in that series is usually english followed by the other languages. Just make note of those along with the rest of the movie and then go into ifoedit and check mark the ones you want to keep and the movie should playback fine.

[preston]

I've gotten pretty good with IFOEDIT, OK with TSMPGenc Plus, acceptable with DVD2AVI and VFAPI converter. I haven't tried Vobrator, because I didn't have to and because reports of instability scared me off. As I understand it, some of the same functionality is available in DVD2AVI. I would really like to preserve the menus (among its other fine qualities, Dumbo has an interesting set of menus) but this strategy only permits backing up the main movie, as I understand it, not the menus. When I re-encode, I create new menus (with Ulead VideoStudio 6) laboriously copying the times and names from the movie. I'm sure there is a better way but I only started a few weeks ago.

[Anthony]

You are correct, this only is for backing up the movie; not for menus but in our household we kinda like just the movie because we usually just forward through any previews and other menu junk anyway.

Good luck,

Anthony