Playing a ripped DVD from the hard drive ?

[Sturmovik]

I have ripped "The Crow" using smartripper to my harddrive and am attempting to follow instructions for burning straight to a dvd using ifoedit etc.

Fortunately the original dvd is small enough to fit straight onto a dvd-r so I dont need to strip streams.

Should the ripped movie play directly from the hard drive immediately after ripping ? Power DVD 4 gives error 8903000 Unknown file format if I try and do this.

After using ifoedit to reconstruct the ifos and vobs following the DVD -> DVD 5 guide I still get the same error.

Any help appreciated :rolleyes:

[theReal]

I think in file modus you must select the vob files in PowerDVD, not the ifo files (if that's what you've done)

[Sturmovik]

Thanks for the reply. PowerDVD played the vobs ok but to pre-test burning a DVD-R one of the guides said to use PowerDVD 4 to open the ifo and check the movie could be played.

When ripped with SmartRipper PowerDVD wouldn't play from the ifo, however after ripping with DVDDecrypter it will now.

Nice :D

Now to see if it burns :rolleyes:

[Sturmovik]

Ok, the dvd played fine from the hard drive loading the ifo into powerdvd 4 and the burned dvd-rw played fine on the pc but when attempting to play it on the player (a pioneer dv545) it seems to loop around title 2 (copyright statement - ironically).

This was burned with a pioneer a03 on a pioneer dvd-rw.

Any ideas ?? :confused:

[LIGHTNING UK!]

I was about to say, you should be using dvd decrypter in ISO mode on discs that will fit on dvd-r without any mucking about.

I wish people would start to realise that dvd decrypter is a much better program than smartripper for EVERYTHING other than working in IFO mode - basically coz DVD Decrypter doesnt have IFO mode :)

If you use ANYTHING other than 'movie' mode on smartripper then you really are wasting your time. DVD Decrypter is easier, faster and more stable. I dont think anyone can argue with that.

[Sturmovik]

I'm sure it was ripped ISO, doesn't it default to that ?

I'll rip it again and try burning again, but not before i get some shuteye.

Thanks for the reply.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

No, it defaults to File mode. You press 'R' to get it into ISO Read mode. Either that, or do it via the 'mode' menu.

[theReal]

Cool, that's news for me as well - I always thought it wasn't possible to play the .ifo files in PowerDVD when the DVD was ripped on HD.
I never really cared however because I don't have a DVD writer yet...

[ByronE]

So, did you get it to work on your set top player then? I'm having a near identical problem with Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon....I ripped it and processed the streams in SmartRipper, and futzed with the ifo's so many times its unreal...in any case, I got it to the point where it plays PERFECTLY in PowerDVD, but loops in the menu mode when I play it on my Apex 500wm....I burned it as a udf/iso in Nero, simply because Gear kept giving some wierd error (cant place ts_ifo in 640 since its taken, putting in 650.) ~that make any sense? not to me...in any case, I burn it with Nero, it loops in the menu mode, BUT when I play the DVDrw itself in PowerDVD (not the raw files) it STILL plays perfect! Somebody please HELP ME! I spent 15 hours straight trying to get this to work, and it just isnt yet!

[Sturmovik]

Ok, now I'm trying to burn as an ISO using DVDDecrypter.

Unfortunately it gets to 95% and then gives an out of disk space error even though theres still 3gig left. Whole image should be less than 4.5 gig.

The log seems to give a different error:

I 22:20:25 Found VOB File: VTS_01_4.VOB - LBA: 1573377 - KEY: C0 00 00 00 01
E 22:24:42 Failed to Extract Sectors!
E 22:24:42 Operation Failed! - Duration: 00:16:00
E 22:24:42 Average Read Rate: 4,390 KB/s (3.2x) - Maximum Read Rate: 6,016 KB/s (4.3x)


Any ideas ?

Using DVDDecrypter 3.0.0.12

:(

Next question is how do I burn the ISO when I successfully build it. Nero wants to burn it to a cd not a DVD !

:confused:

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Ah...another person not taking note of what it says in the log!
FAT / FAT32 doesnt support images > 4GB
You will need to format ur drives as NTFS for large file support - that means u will have to be running Win NT/2000/XP.

You should read the log...I didnt implement it for fun :)
(Press the 'L' key)

[Sturmovik]

Thanks for the quick reply. Now to sort out a drive.

What about burning it though, any s/w recommends as nero seems to want to burn it to a cd !!

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Ive heard VOB's Instant CD/DVD works.