FlaskMpeg doesnt process complete movie

[jmes]

I've noticed that FlaskMpeg occasionally doesn't process the complete movie. It's not that it terminates early, but it doesn't "see" the complete series of vobs - when I use the Flask "scroll bar," it doesn't "know" about the last vob. Example: One flick that I was Flask'ing yesterday only processed 4 of the 5 vobs. The problem in this particular example is that when I flasked the 5th vob, without the ifo information, the resulting output had "garbage" pop up occasionally - a clever way to stop a vob flask. The flask from the ifo (which only processed the 1st 4) was perfect, just incomplete.

Any ideas?

[Selur]

hmm,.. which version of Flask do you use, and which programm do you use for ripping the vob files ?

Cu Selur

[jmes]

I use DVD Decrypter 2.4 and my version of FlasK is 0.6. It happens occasionally, but I've noticed it more lately. It acts identically on two different machines - one of which I recently reloaded .. (W2K)

[Selur]

"It happens occasionally"
With the same movie or does it onetime function with the movie and another time not ?

Cu Selur

[jmes]

The problem is definitely "movie" based. If movie "X" doesn't work, it will never work. No matter how many times I try, tricks I play or even if I try to Flask it on a totally different computer.

[Selur]

Hmm,.. did u try to use another tool for ripping ?

[jmes]

Tried different s/w tonight (Smart Ripper and XMpeg) and got same result. For the DVD "X" mentioned in previous posts, I had Smart Ripper decrypt the entire disc, every VOB, IFO, etc. I must say that I didn't actually rip the disc, but when I moved the scroll bar in XMpeg, it showed the end of the movie as the same place that Flask showed - probably 10-15 min less than the actual movie. (Flask showed the same "end" point for both the DVD Decrypter and Smart Ripper ifo/vobs)

(I also ripped two other movies tonight at everything worked perfect)

Any thoughts?

:confused:

[Selur]

plz try to open the vobs with DVD2AVI and see if it 'sees' the whole movie ;)

Cu Selur

[jmes]

Using DVD2AVI DID "see" the whole movie, but another issue popped up ...

Here comes the rub. From a cursory glance, it appears that the IFO file contains a list of which sections from WITHIN the VOB files should be played AND in which order. Consider the following: (each [ - ] represents a section) [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] ... [Z]. The IFO file could say to play them out of stored sequence order A->D->F->B->C etc. which COULD be tbe proper viewing order, so, without the benefit of the IFO data, a decode of the VOB would result in a "trashed" movie - jumping around in scenes (I have seen this, rare, but happens).

In the particular movie we are talking about, the problem is that Flask, which uses the IFO files can't see the last VOB, it would probably know how to decode the file if it could. DVD2AVI which uses the VOB, doesn't have the info in the IFO file to know what to skip in the VOB The last VOB appears to be sequenced as follows (where X = undesirable section): [A][X][B][X][C][X] ... if I watch the movie on a DVD player, the contents of the last VOB plays correctly. If I Flask or DVD2AVI to decode the VOB, without the IFO, I get the "garbage" frames ..

Any thoughts?

[Selur]

Haven't done it to often, but maybe reading doom9's Descrambling guides (http://www.doom9.org/descrambling-guides.htm) help's,...

Cu Selur

[ECY]

you can try to use DVDX it supports ifo files
but if it don't work as well than no idea

link for dvdx

http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/dvdx.html

[gunnimabi]

:p Why not use DVDCutter, it's a professional one, you can find it in www.jummpa.com