ETB
16th February 2003, 22:41
Reading over the guides again and again, I've been able to advance a few steps, but can't seem to get any further. First, I'm not even sure which program is best for ripping unencrypted recordings. I started with DVD2AVI, to try to make an AVI file I could convert to MPEG with avi2vcd. I can open the vob and play the stream. I clicked information and got the side window with the time and other info adding up. But then I wind up with a 0KB video file, and 2 ac3 files. What do I do then?
On DVD2VCD, when I click the disc icon, a command prompt window comes up that says E:\can't load aspi
Drive authentication for DOS
ASPI for NT/2000/Whistler
Found Get HTL, and then the window "auth.call .exe has encountered a problem and needs to close, and the command prompt shuts down.
However, the little information window comes up saying "preparing video", and the conversion window has the movie length and other info, and selected audio tracks, plus the "Go" button. When I click it, and "Rip and Convert", the "continue" window comes up, and when I click OK, the log comes up showing the initializing occurs, Internal rip, the vob files to be prepared, and then the progress meter advances.
When it gets most of the way across, then I get "I/O error 103 The operation completed successfully", then it does nothing else after that. Not even reading the DVD drive anymore. When I close it, is says something like the program is still active. Is this the "12-24 hours" I read about on one of the txt guides, and if I leave it that long, it will produce something?
Because I couldn't post until today, I had asked for help by e-mail, but was told I "didn't understand the program; read some more guides". I did, and was then able to get up to where I am today. But all of this stuff is a bit complicated to someone who is totally new to it, so I would hope the more experienced would be patient and realize that not everyone can always figure all of this out for themselves, because there are so many factors involved. I think the guides, need to perhaps include a complete step by step tutorial for projects like this. There is step by step info to a certain point, but then I am still wondering what do I do next, or if I did somethign wrong, or if some setting is not right or something like that.
On DVD2VCD, when I click the disc icon, a command prompt window comes up that says E:\can't load aspi
Drive authentication for DOS
ASPI for NT/2000/Whistler
Found Get HTL, and then the window "auth.call .exe has encountered a problem and needs to close, and the command prompt shuts down.
However, the little information window comes up saying "preparing video", and the conversion window has the movie length and other info, and selected audio tracks, plus the "Go" button. When I click it, and "Rip and Convert", the "continue" window comes up, and when I click OK, the log comes up showing the initializing occurs, Internal rip, the vob files to be prepared, and then the progress meter advances.
When it gets most of the way across, then I get "I/O error 103 The operation completed successfully", then it does nothing else after that. Not even reading the DVD drive anymore. When I close it, is says something like the program is still active. Is this the "12-24 hours" I read about on one of the txt guides, and if I leave it that long, it will produce something?
Because I couldn't post until today, I had asked for help by e-mail, but was told I "didn't understand the program; read some more guides". I did, and was then able to get up to where I am today. But all of this stuff is a bit complicated to someone who is totally new to it, so I would hope the more experienced would be patient and realize that not everyone can always figure all of this out for themselves, because there are so many factors involved. I think the guides, need to perhaps include a complete step by step tutorial for projects like this. There is step by step info to a certain point, but then I am still wondering what do I do next, or if I did somethign wrong, or if some setting is not right or something like that.