Chopper XP and correcting the dvd

[umar]

hello, i recently backed up SIGNs
onto a dvd-r. It wouldnt normally fit
except that i used a program called chopper xp.
I was like 80MB over the disk limit, so i used
chopper xp to cut out the credits on the VOB
file. However, i found the dvd only worked
on the playstation 2, and my computer. The
regular dvd player says the disc doesnt support
dvd-playback and wont play the dvd.
I'm thinking it has something to do with the
IFO files containing the information about
the length of the movie.
Can anyone help me fix the disc so the IFO and
the changed movie length actually match?
Or does anyone know the real reason why my
dvd player doesnt play it?



chopper xp is available here:
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/chopper.html

[idbirch2]

I would try demuxing your newly 'chopped' VOB files back into mpv and ac3 then slap em back together with Maestro thus creating a new IFO with the correctly reported time.

There may be an easier way but I don't see any other ideas.

[2COOL]

Try using IFOedit to do a mock stream strip. What I'm trying to say is to do the stream stripping procedure in IFOedit BUT keeping all streams. You're stripping but not exactly stripping since you are keeping everything. IFoedit will process the whole movie and correct your movie length at the end.

[umar]

2COOL i did what u said but still its not working,
the dvd-player doesnt recognize the dvd.

idbirch2 i dont even know how to do what u said,
i cant find where to get Maestro, and i'm not sure
which tool to use to demux into mpv and ac3.

[idbirch2]

You really need to check out the DVD authoring guides on Doom9 if you're not sure how to do this.

You could just delete the current IFOs and get IFOedit to make new ones although this would almost certainly mean you'd lose all the menus and things.

How about this - 2Cool will be able to conirm if this can be done or not cos I'm not sure. Move your current IFOs to another directory. Get IFOedit to me new ones. Use IFOUpdate to update the originals with the timecodes etc from the ones IFOedit made (which should be correct).

If none of this makes any sense I think the easiest way for you to get around this would be to re-rip this movie. Either get the disc back and do it again or treat your new VOB files as the original movie and just do a very slight down-sample. I think this would save you a lot of headaches if you don't want to get to deep into authoring.

Oh yeah, when you're authoring and working out how big you're MPVs and AC3s and menus and stuff are, are you allowing for about 150MB VOB overhead? If not you should or you will run into this problem every time.

Hope this helps.