24 Season 1 dvd's

[moose69]

ok, I'm new to this dvd ripping and authoring thing. I have done several movies with just the movie and no extra's but now I want to do the whole disk and I want to do the first season of 24 wich has 4 episodes over 6 disks. I have ripped all the files to my hard drive but don't know what to do after that. I know each movie will have to be encoded to make it smaller to fit on a dvdr. I tried that with dvd2one and the size stayed the same. Could sombody point me in the right direction where to start. Maybe what tutorial on this page would be the best for this.

Crap..ment for this to go in the newbie section. sorry about this

[2COOL]

Originally posted by moose69
ok, I'm new to this dvd ripping and authoring thing. I have done several movies with just the movie and no extra's but now I want to do the whole disk and I want to do the first season of 24 wich has 4 episodes over 6 disks. I have ripped all the files to my hard drive but don't know what to do after that. I know each movie will have to be encoded to make it smaller to fit on a dvdr. I tried that with dvd2one and the size stayed the same. Could sombody point me in the right direction where to start. Maybe what tutorial on this page would be the best for this.

Crap..ment for this to go in the newbie section. sorry about this

moose69,

Here's one direction ---> MakeItEasy (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44978)

[moose69]

Thanks man...read that yesterday and just found the makeiteasy file so I will give that a try now

[moose69]

ok, I done that but when I open the vob files in power dvd the screen is blank and no sound but the progress bar is moving. do I have to delete all the files on my hard drive and re rip and try again?

[2COOL]

Originally posted by moose69
ok, I done that but when I open the vob files in power dvd the screen is blank and no sound but the progress bar is moving.

Try using IFOedit, DVD2AVI, or VOBrator to view your VOBs. Post badk with your results.

[moose69]

Ok, here's what I done step by step.

1) Ripped all the files to my hard drive with Smart Ripper in file mode
2)Copied the VOB files that contained the movie(VTS_04_1.VOB trhu VTS_04_8.VOB and the total size to these files are 7.72 gig) Left VTS_04_0.VOB in the ripped directory

3) Got the size of the remaining files in the ripped directory which total 28.6 MB and put 50 mb in Makeiteasy. Loaded the VTS_04_1.VOB file in make it easy and padded it with a extra 50 mb.

4)When completed I opened up the padded VTS_04_1.VOB file in ifo edit and created the ifo and got 4 files(VIDEO_TS BUP File 6kb, VIDEO_TS IFO File 6kb, VTS_01_0 BUP File 96kb, VTS_01_0 IFO File 96kb.

5)When I opened up DVD2One and selected the VOB files that I padded it gave me a file that had 50 chapters, 1 angel and was 2:50:47 in length. I click next and the audio options are AC3 2ch Lanuage unspecified and 4 unspecified subtitles. checked everything and hit start and get the folling error. Unable to open vobfileset 1 in directory D:\DVD Projects\24.

Files won't play in power dvd but the will play in dvd2avi. Anyone know what I done wrong?

[moose69]

Tried it with boondock saints and it worked just fine...but I have tried it with 24 disk 1 and 2 and it won't work..dvd2one won't open the files.......Please help

[moose69]

Ok, I got it. had to rename the ifo files after I used ifoedit. then had to rename them again after I use dvd2one. thanks for all the help and that kick ass program

[jerschwab]

Rename them to what? I'm having this problem too.

[jerschwab]

Oops, nevermind... I saw that the VTS_01_0.IFO should actually be VTS_02_0.IFO.

Thanks for the tip.

[MrFaust]

Moose69, are you sure that it is working correctly?

When I went through the exact same process on the exact same DVD, once I was all done and loaded the DVD up inside of PowerDVD strange things began to happen. If I clicked on multiple places in the "Time bar" it would take me to the same scene, but list different times each click. This happened especially bad towards the end. I could click anywhere in the last 25% of the "Time bar" and be taken to the exact same location, 12:59 counting on the in video episode clock (part of the episode, not a PowerDVD function). Also, the episodes would never end. It would just play a black screen indefinitely, you'd have to force a return to the main menu

I think this is a side affect of what happens when you condense multiple PGC's inside a single VOB set to one PGC using the MakeItEasy/DVD2One method, then move the new vob's back. Near as I can tell, I think this is an issue with the IFO not being properly updated with the new frame data, or something of that nature.

Here is the exact process I used. Once the DVD was on my HD in its entirety, I moved VTS_04_1.VOB through VTS_04_8.VOB to another directory. I padded it accordingly, ran it through IFOEdit (using both the "New Chapter at each Cell" and "New chapter at each PGC" options both had the same problem). I then renamed the VTS_04 files to VTS_01, and ran DVD2One. I then unpadded the VOB's, named them back to 04, moved them back to the original directory, and ran the IFO Update option of MakeItEasy.

Can anyone confirm this as a problem, or tell me what I am doing wrong?

[moose69]

Well, I have done the first 3 disks and tried them in my player but to no great lengths. I have the other 3 to do now so I will check them to make sure that they work all the way thru

[MrFaust]

If you have some spare time, load one up in PowerDVD real quick and play around with the "Progress" or "Time" bar. Notice if when you click at multiple places it takes you to the same frame. Then fast forward to the end, and see if it just sits there indefinately or goes back to the menu.

[moose69]

Ok, here is what I have noticed. if I move the progress bar it will move me farther into the show but sometimes it will take me to the same frame but still play...when I went to the end of the 1st show on disk 1 it took me right back to the menue when the credits and stuff were done

[Arianos]

DVD2ONE may be a great program, opening new frontiers for DVD backing up, but it's NOT a Swiss Army Knife, not even with MakeItEasy (not yet anyway).
Don't get me wrong, I'm a great fan of DVD2ONE, but some things are still easier to do the "old" fashioned way.
I backed up all 6 DVDs, region2, with subtitles and an elementary moving menu, using DVD2SVCD in batch mode (each episode 1050MBs), chapterXtractor, vobrator, Subrip and Maestro. 2 whole days encoding, 1 afternoon putting together, 6 hours spread over 3 days burning.
No problems whatsoever, PowerDVD or standalone.
It took me a long time to learn how to do that without any mishaps or re-compiling, but I WILL HAPPILY USE DVD2ONE TO DO IT EASIER-FASTER IN THE FUTURE.
But till that time, all episode DVDs will be done through DVD2SVCD.

[moose69]

I'm going to start watching them tonight in my standalone and if they work I will do the other the same way. if not I will try your method. Is there a tutorial on here to do stuff like that cuz I have never tried dvd2svcd

[Arianos]

@ moose69
If you haven't ever used DVD2SVCD you will need some basic guidelines around the program. It's not DVD2ONE easy, but it gets you the video and audio files for each episode, with minimal fuss and at a predefined size.
I hope your method works for you. Otherwise PM me so I can send you a rough guide. Incidentally, I use this method (DVD2SVCD) to make all my episode DVDs (STNG, Band of Brothers, Stargate SG1, Farscape)
So far, 100% success.

[moose69]

Sent you a pm requesting the tutorial or some help, thanks abunch. was watching disk 2 and it froze on me in the first episode so I guess I will have to redo them also