ripped DVD wont play with ifoedit DVD player

[t0lik]

I ripped a dvd to another folder, and when i load video_ts.ifo and click on DVD player, I get "DVD warning: Could not open a file on the DVD disk", and after clicking OK, "A file on the DVD disk could not be opened. Playback may not continue" message comes up. I can load and play these dvd files into PowerDVD XP just fine. Why ifoedit dvd player can't play them?

Thx

[Derrow]

This strange.
If you haved ripped all files, then this message should not apear.

[t0lik]

Well, I think the problem was with missing VIDEO_TS.VOB file. Once I put it in the new dir with stripped files, it stoped complaining. Now, that VIDEO_TS.VOB must be on DVD, or not? In my case, it contains all the FBI warnings and rating stills. How can I get rid of it? I'm just 2MB over the max size of the DVD, and VIDEO_TS.VOB is just over 2MB. If I can removed it somehow, I'm all set. My DVD files are playing fine from HD with ifoedit and powerdvd xp. Can I just make the VIDEO_TS.VOB a dummy 0 bytes file? Or it wont work? Or is it possible to skip it somehow by editing VIDEO_TS.IFO and go directly to main menu, and delete the VOB file completely?

Thx for your help Derrow

[Derrow]

The VIDEO_TS.VOB is needed, if there's a reference to it in VIDEO_TS.IFO.

But you can strip out the warnings using IfoEdit and Menu-Extras!
But don't strip everything out. At least on VOB-ID must be left.

[t0lik]

And another thing... I also thought I can reduce the size of the VIDEO_TS.VOB file by stripping some of the stills and warnings from it, and keep maybe just one still.. lets say picture rating still. So, when I put my DVD in the dvd player, the rating still would come up and then go directly to menu. I loaded video_ts.ifo file into ifoedit, clicked Menu Extras, then selected all three options (strip VOBids, correct VOB unit, and correct IFO tables.. all three checked), then selected only one VOB that I know contains movie rating still picture, and click on ok, by some reason it only outputs video_ts.ifo and bup files, but not video_ts.vob.. what am i doing wrong??

[Derrow]

This happens only if you have stripped every VOB-ID.
But if you selected to keep 1, then there should be a VIDEO_TS.VOB file.
Obviously you didn't forget to specifiy a destination directory, otherwise there haven't IFO files been created.

[t0lik]

Hm... I ripped the movie again (with dvd decrypter), and this time when I tried to rip video_ts.vob file, i got 3 files in the output folder - video_ts.vob, ifo and bup.. before I would get only two (no vob file).. maybe my prior rip was messed up or something.. so, it works now :)
What Im also trying to do is to rip just the movie and the main menu... I loaded vts_05 ifo file (its the main movie), clicked VOB extras, and selected to rip streams.. also, selected "create new ifo..", so in the output directory i got all the files with vts_01..
(ifoedit changed them from vts_05 to vts_01). Now, here is my dilemma...What about the vts_05_0.vob, which is the main menu for the
movie? Do I just rename it to vts_01? How can I get the new ripped movie to work with the menu?

Thx again

[Derrow]

The option to create new IFOs, is of course for producing a DVD without Menu!

To keep the menu, you don't have the check this last option to create new IFO files.

Use my guide for keeping the menu:
http://mpucoder.kewlhair.com/Derrow/menu.html

[t0lik]

Oh, ok.. now it's making sense... So, I have to uncheck the "create new IFO" option, and after I get my "stripped" vts_05... files, I just copy them back and overwrite the original ones, right? Then, I can probably delete some other vts files, since they are extras and stuff.. then run "Get VTS Sectors", and after that create image, right?

[Derrow]

Right so far, except I never overwrite the original files!
I copy every thing that's needed to the destination drive, so if something went wrong cause I check a wrong option or so, I'm always able to redo my steps.

And when my DVD-RW finaly is working in my settop player, then I delete the original files. Until then they stay untouched, and for all case I 'write-protect' them.

[t0lik]

Damn! I just got the same problem again: When I try to strip video_ts.vob from some of the stills, I only get two files in the output folder : video_ts.ifo and bup... It was working this morning! How strange...

[Derrow]

How big is this VOB file? Maybe I can DL it.

[t0lik]

The file is small... only 1.8MB.. it's from Sexy Beast DVD. I already burned DVD successfully without ripping this file. But I still puzzled as to why it wouldnt rip the file sometime... Do u want me to attach the file?

[Derrow]

yes, including the VIDEO_TS.IFO, then I would check out why sometimes the stripping fails.

That would be great.

[t0lik]

I tried to attach files, but looks like the forum pages crash on me.. can I email them to u? or ICQ?