Cutting chapters

[makaone]

Just a quick question that has probably already been talked about on other threads, but i have looked everywhere and found none.

I was wondering whether you can decide at which chapter to cut the rip at, so that when you rip a audio concert the cd does'nt stop mid way through a song.

It may sound like a stuppid question to one that nows the answer.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

[gerti67]

Hi makaone,

you have to use dvd2svcd's internal routines for the ripping ("DVD Rip" tab, select "Activate DVD ripping" and tick "Use internal routines") then after loading the desired *.IFO in "Conversion" tab you will see the movie length appear in the pulldown, now you just click on it and there you have a number of chapters showing. Now you can select only half of them (when you're going for 2 CDs) and hit the "Go" button. So only the first half of the chapters are encoded to now 1 CD. After that conversion do the same with the rest of the chapters.

Greetings,
gerti67

P.S. using the "search" button of the forum is sometimes better than looking ;) Just try it with "cutting AND chapter" - just a hint for the future ;)

[ncc1701d]

Originally posted by gerti67
Hi makaone,

you have to use dvd2svcd's internal routines for the ripping ("DVD Rip" tab, select "Activate DVD ripping" and tick "Use internal routines") then after loading the desired *.IFO in "Conversion" tab you will see the movie length appear in the pulldown, now you
the future ;)



Tha problem with this is that some players like Monyka for example plays 2-4 sek less than the vidostream.. I have no idea why.

Like:
If i cut at end of a chapter, the monyka does NOT play all to the end, but cuts
the video 2-4 sec before the videostream has ended. It does this with ALL firmwares.

and it seems that it also has a small "startup" of about 1/2-1 sec before video is visible.
so the 1st second of a video also gets "cut".

So chapter cutting does not work properly, unless the programmer can fix an option
fo including 2-4 sec from next chapter ;)..

[gerti67]

Hi ncc1701d,

perhaps it is not a problem of your player, but a problem of bbMPEG cutting of the last seconds of an encode. Please have a look at this thread:

http://rilanparty.com/vbb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16340

Instead of editing the line for bbMPEG to 800 (?) as Mozart suggests, i think setting the CD size in Bitrate tab to 795 for a 1-CD-encode will eliminate this problem in future conversions. Give it a try. ;)

Greetings,
gerti67

[ncc1701d]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by gerti67
[B]Hi ncc1701d,

perhaps it is not a problem of your player, but a problem of bbMPEG cutting of the last seconds of an encode. Please have a look at this thread:


No it is not any softwareä's problem. i have encountered this fenomenon with all
types of cutting. It is the player that does so. but it seems to do it ONLY on i-author
authored discs. If i choose other author method OR burn mpegs in Nero for example, then there doesn't seem to be any time missing.

[makaone]

I tried what you said to do , it worked fine for CD 1, but when i did it again and selected the chapters that i need for CD 2.
When i start the rip , and it begins to rip the vob files , it gets nearly all the way through them and comes up with an error.

ERROR
I/O error 103

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

[gerti67]

Hi makaone,

I/O Error 103 usually indicates that something went wrong with the *.vob files during ripping (bad/unreadable sectors on DVD).

You could try to re-rip the DVD (after cleaning it carefully) and if this will not work, to rip it to your harddrive using DVD Decrypter as it is said to rip almost anything. Copy the *.vob files to a different folder than your standard ripping folder and use the internal ripping routines on them with the chapter selection as already described above.

Greetings,
gerti67

[makaone]

Everything went well , but this time tried to convert to pal and it was actually worst quaility .
The audio was as if it was running at half speed and picture the same .
I don't really know if all you have to do is to tick ( NTSC to PAL ) or not but when i did the horizontal lines were worse.

Thanks alot for all you peoples patiance, as i know these sort of questions must drive you nuts, but if you don't ask you do learn.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated