Ever had a movie you just couldn't rip?

[ToiletDuck]

I was just wondering what movies you guys have tried to rip and they just not turn out right. I was able to take the entire movie of Spy games which is over 2 hrs and put it on one disk and it looks great. However I can't seem to get the movie "Signs" which is like 90 minutes to look anywhere neer as good even if I make it 2 disk. I'm using the RV9 codec. What movies out there have you tried that you just couldn't get to work right?

[jggimi]

Seven Samurai. 3 hours 28 minutes. 4:3. But that's not the worst of it....

Apparently, the best film available for transfer was of very poor quality. In addition, the film was shot at less than 24fps. The DVD has frame jitter and flicker in addition to all the noise problems of worn film.

I tried every possible combination of filters ... but the only hope was to throw bits at it. I never bothered to make a 4 or 5 CD backup.

[killingspree]

madonna - drowned world tour
about 2 hours iirc
but somehow the sound was only about 2/3 as long as the video file, lot of black inbetween songs
seems like there was some kind of point at the video that resynced the video with the audio after each song.

first song was sync, then by the second one there were about 5 to 10 seconds delay...
also very bitrate intensive video (you know light effects, camera flying around the stage switching from the audience to madonna, constant switching from almost pitchblack to very bright.
gave up after 2 moths... sold the DVD now anyway...

regards
steVe

[ReTroAcTive]

ive seen signs fit on to 1 cd with xvid very nicely duck, you may want to try that.
i did lost in space and it wasnt very user friendly. i have had the disc for a few years and i had gotten as far as ripping it but stopped after i figured out it was goign to take atleast 2 cds to back it up. just didnt want to spend the time. however im quite happy with the version of it i made in rv9 today.

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@jiggimi.
Yeh, Seven Samurai was so painfull to backup that I gave up also. Ironically, when I moved recently it disappeared and it is the 1st time I have ever needed a backup. I went out and bought another one though, such a great movie I would've done that anyway.

[ReTroAcTive]

i havent ever backed up starship troopers because it would take over 1 cd to back it up. its a 1:85:1 movie so theres a lot to backup pixel wise.
i figured ide try the rv9 codec and see what i got.
well other then it bluring when theres smoke or dust in the air on the movie it did really well. 2 hours at 544x288 for 1 cd was the best i could do even with rv9.

[killingspree]

...but 'Planet of the apes' gave me a funny problem recently. dvddecrypter usually takes the longest chains to rip, but apperently this is the chain with the directors comments. it's only like 10 seconds longer but that was enough anyway. i was lucky i watched it (or tried to) before i burned it to CD. the problem was that it had this little boxes with the directors or the producers appear every 2 minutes or so saying a comment i of course didn't here because i at least got the right audio channel. anyway, since the movie isn't good anyway (IMHO of course) i never bothered to take a second run.

regards
steVe

[ReTroAcTive]

is that the new planet of the apes? the one with mark wahlberg and tim roth, directed by tim burton? i backed that up with no problem, and it was very compressible at 608x256 with mp3 vbr160 sound on 1 cd.

(edit) i do think i had problems with the wrong sound track though, the first one was with the directors comments so i had to go back to dvd2avi and get the rigth track. very strange you got the video and i got the audio with the directors comments. (edit)

[killingspree]

Originally posted by ReTroAcTive
is that the new planet of the apes? the one with mark wahlberg and tim roth, directed by tim burton? i backed that up with no problem, and it was very compressible at 608x256 with mp3 vbr160 sound on 1 cd.

yes it was the one
oh the compression was good, but somehow this little windows with ome idiots head appearing are somehow annoying when you want to watch the actual film. (although they are in less important parts of the picture)


(edit) i do think i had problems with the wrong sound track though, the first one was with the directors comments so i had to go back to dvd2avi and get the rigth track. very strange you got the video and i got the audio with the directors comments. (edit)

well something is wrong with the dvd...
still i don't like the film too much anyway so i never bothered to give it a second try...
ohh... just an idea... probably they have somehow mismatched the audio and video streams on a lower level that gets ignored by standalone or software players but is used by dvd rippers?!?

just an idea though
regards
steVe

[jaa52]

I got signs to fit on one DVD+R movie only. I used vobsplit and cutoff some of the end credits, made an image in imagetool and burned with DVD Decryipter iso mode write. Did not have to encode. Hate menus bye bye.:)

[ToiletDuck]

lol yea. Well with DVD-R coming up ripping is going to go to a whole new level. Especially with the new stuff coming out in the future that will have a higher data rate transfer than DVD's. Soon we will be trying to rip movies down to dvd size lol. Well not soon but it is coming.

[OvERaCiD23]

I don't see how you had troubles with 'Signs'. I put it on 2 discs, 704xXXX, Lanczos, no noise filters, 5.1 AC3, and did a 1-pass Q2 with DivX5 (b-frames only). Still came up a little short on size (~30MB short). So this movie should fit wonderfully on 1 CD.

[ToiletDuck]

the overall movie did look good on one disk. However I do all 1 disk at 640xXXX and some shots like where he was walking through the stalks of corn at the beginning and it did upclose facial shots looked blurry as hell. You could see his cheeks and stuff just look off.