selecting chapters question

[Phatty2x4]

Okay folks - I have an issue that has been vexing me for a few weeks now.

I am trying to back up Hellsing:impure souls DVD. The DVD contains 3 separate episodes that are approximately 23 minutes each. I would very much like to back this DVD up so that I have 3 separate discs.

The issue that I am running into is when I have loaded up the disc, and for me it doesn't matter if I have selected use internal or use vstrip, when I select the movie length box for which chapters to rip - I can only select the whole movie. It appears as if the three episodes have been encoded into one movie file.

Is there a way to use dvd2svcd to split this DVD into 3 discs or am I going to have to pursue an outside method of breaking the episodes out? I have attempted to split the DVD by using smartripper chapter selection and breaking the DVD up that way, but I run into an issue after encoding the quality of the discs is not that great. The 1st disc is phenomenal - just like the DVD. Disc 2 and 3 however are plagued with stuttering, artifacts and banding - as if I was attempting to encode at a bit rate that far to low - which is real odd because I have used the same settings for all three. Why would one come out perfect and the other 2 not?

Has anyone else run into this? What was the final solution taken?

[dacow]

Did you try to use "Use frame selection"? Just define three ranges at your choice.

[Phatty2x4]

dacow

Yeah I have tried that and that works. I should have tightened my queston up a bit more by asking - is there a setting that I have missed that I need to use to pick times/chapters without going out to a 3rd party program and/or frame selection?

[Bill]

Phatty2x4,
I had a similar problem with Star Trek Next Generation and solved it by:
1. Copy DVD with SmartRipper so I can return it to Netflix.
2. Activate Ripping with vStrip and select the largest IFO file under conversion.
3. In the movie length pulldown under the conversion tab I can see all four episodes. I select the first episode and hit GO to rip it to a separate folder. Once that episode is ripped I close the program and then reopen it and select the largest IFO file under conversion again and then select the second episode under movie length and rip it to a different folder than the first and so on until all episodes are ripped to different folders.
4. I disable ripping and select an output folder for my svcd files under misc. tab. I select my first episode folder and select that IFO file, movie length doesn't matter. Hit GO to start conversion of the first episode.
5. Do step four for each episode with all different output folders and close the program after each operation.
6, Burn each output folder separately.

I may be doing it wrong but it works for me but may not work for you on the DVD you have.

When I tried converting only from the movie length selector I got the same episode no matter what I selected, so I went with ripping each one and it worked.

[hoozdapimp]

if that still doesn't work there's a really roundabout way of doing it but should get the job done...if you want each episode to consume an 80 minute disc, simply change the cd size to 2395 (leave a little room for error)...make sure you have the max video bitrate of 2500 set or whatever. check the option so that no cd images are used. Then split the 2.4gb mpg into 3 different episodes.

again this is if nothing else works. i have no experience ripping only parts of a dvd seperately.