The new Scenarist guide

[paulers]

Hi Guys,

The tools are awsome! DF4U, DCCE4U, and reauthorist are so great!

I have a problem and I hope someone can help. I folowed the new Scenarist guide with The Phantom Menace dvd and the Menu turned out choppy and distorted in Windvd and so choppy in my set top dvd player that the dvd pauses in mid frame and wont play. Did I do something wrong? When I skipped ahead to the movie in Windvd, the move seemed to play great.

Could something have happened during the ripping phase? I set the options of all three programs according to the settings listed in the guide.

Thanks!

[killingspree]

hi,
just wanted to add that i had the same problem with one of the vts's. it didn't only play choopy, but always played a few secs and then skipped back a tiny bit and so on... in the end the vts turned out 3 minutes longer than the original one...
see here for details
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&postid=327011#post327011

steVe

[paulers]

The intresting part to me is that it only seems to be the menu that is messed up. In WINdvd I can manage to hit the play button on the garbeled menu and see that the movie plays fine but on my set top it completely locks up.

Im baffeled.

[TIM2]

I had the same problem. It turned out DIF4U wasn't properly copying all the extras into the VIDEO_TS file. I just loaded up DVD decrypter and overwrote all the files with the ones from the original dvd and everything worked fine.

I think the problem may be that I didn't rip the entire dvd and created a virtual image like the guide said, but instead ran everything using the original dvd. I think instead of using DVD Decrypter to rip all the original files to the VIDEO_TS directory, it instead just does a file copy, so the files are still encrypted.

[paulers]

Thanks for the info, I am going to give it another shot.

[paulers]

Ok I think I found something out but I'm still a little hazy. Here is a little portion of Eyes's guide on his website.

<i>Note: The BEST method of DVD ripping involves using DVD Decrypter to create an .ISO file. Simply use DVD Decrypter's ISO Mode>Read to create an .ISO image of your DVD, then use daemon-tools to mount this .ISO as a virtual drive. You can now use this virtual drive as if it were a DVD-Rom drive, and no longer have to physically have the DVD in the drive at all times. See this guide at Doom9 if you need further assistance.

· Daemon-Tools (Get it at http://www.daemon-tools.org)

***If you choose NOT to use the ISOMOUNT method, the VIDEO_TS folder created by DoItFast4U! will be unusable.***
(you will have to remake this folder by yourself. It's best just to conform to the ISOMOUNT standard!)</i>

Now my question is how is it different then ripping a dvd in file mode with dvd decrypter? In the past I have ripped whole dvds to my harddrive in file mode and the files were fine. I plan on trying the demontools way anyways but can someone eplain this to me?

[TIM2]

I'm not entirely sure what your question is. The reason to create a virtual image is because DVD Decrypter removes all the macrovision and CSS protection on the dvd when building the image. The reason you can't just rip the whole dvd to a directory is because DIF4U only supports drives, not directories.

[paulers]

Thanks I understand now.

[paulers]

When I uncheck some of the pgc's in re-authorist (before encode), does re-authorist automagically insert a dummy file or is that something I need to do manually?