unable to play if strip any audio streams with DvdD

[dvdWannabe]

I have been unable to get a DVD where audio streams have been stripped out to play on my DVD Player. This happens even if I leave the 0x80 audio stream, but stip out a few extra ones.

If I do NOT attempt to strip out any of the streams, the following works quite well for me - and gets rid of all the menus - and allows me to combine DVDs so that I use the +Rs more efficiently (put several disk2's together).

1. Decrypt files in DvdDecryptor, just using the defaults.

2. Remove everything but the VOBs from the directory. Physically move anything past 4 VOBs (or 4,600,000 bytes) into a second directory.

3. For the 2nd directory, use VobEdit to Join the VOBs.

4.Using IfoEdit, Create new IFOs

5. Close IfoEdit

6. With IfoEdit - Get VTS Sectors - and Save IFOs.

7. With ImgTool, create an image with reallocate and high compatibilty checked.

8. Burn Image with Nero (would burn with ImgTool, but it refuses to burn to DVD+RW that has been used - and I generally burn to +RW while I'm learning).

---- My Questions --

1. How can I strip out extra audio streams and still get it to play in my player (new Panasonic 82)?

2. I have some DVDs that I ripped where I stripped out the extra audio. Can I salvage them and make them into playable DVDs?

3. As I am generating the new IFO files from scratch and having no menus, how can I remap the audio to use DTS if available?

4. If I select several VOBs in DvdDecripter, and then go into stream mode, it loses my selections and seems to default to the main movie - but no extras. Is there a way to have it keep my selections? It would be nice to select in file mode, then select the audio streams.

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BTW - very nice work on the program. It is amazing that it works so well!!!

[dvdWannabe]

Found partial solution to problem. Used VOB Extras in IfoEdit to strip out extra audio and DTS and everything now works. YES!

Note: I had to use IfoEdit to create new VOB files - I could not get it to work just creating the IFO files.

Although this works, I would certainly like to be able to strip out audio streams while using DVD Decrypter - and then just create new IFOs with IfoEdit - just a little less processing to do.

Where am I going wrong in assuming I could just use streams processing in DVD Decrypter to just strip the extra audio, grab just the VOB files (no menus, no extras) and then only need to create new IFO files with IfoEdit and have it work?

BTW - It would be very nice if DVD Decryptor could be told to keep building VOB files until 100k less than a DVDs 4.7GB (the split point is inefficient if stripping out a bunch of audio and extras) - and then put rest in different directory.

This would maximize usage of DVDs (make easier to split 2 DVD-9s into 3 DVDs - where the 2nd part of each DVD-9 would be combined on the 3rd DVD.

But - again - Great work. Just amazing that the authors could figure all this out!