DVD2AVI Problems w/ Menu vobs

[BoNz1]

Ok, so I decided to create some nice menus for Lord of The Rings II to showcase the amazing interactivity of a BIFS in mp4. But unfortunately DVD2AVI 1.76 does not like these vob files. It appears they are in RGB24 or some other strange color space at any rate they are not opened properly by DVD2AVI. Most of the transitions and motion menus are viewable but they crash DVD2AVI if you try to create a project or preview and some are partly green. But the stills are all green when the colorspace is set to RBG24 and nothing appears if YUV 4:2:2 is selected. I will but a link up to one of the stills since they are nice and small, hopefully someone can have a look. BTW I had a look at it with BBDMUX and this is what it outputed for one of the stills:

Scanning for stream id's, press control-c to quit ...

File C:\TWO_TOWERS\VIDEO_TS\Menu\Stills\menu_V128C01.vob is an MPEG-2 Program Stream

Found stream id 0xBF = Private Stream 2
Found stream id 0xE0 = Video Stream 0
Stream id 0xE0 is encrypted
Found stream id 0xBD = Private Stream 1, substream 0x20, Subpicture stream 0
Stream id 0xBD, substream 0x20 is encrypted
Found stream id 0xBD = Private Stream 1, substream 0x21, Subpicture stream 1
Stream id 0xBD, substream 0x21 is encrypted
Found stream id 0xBE = Padding Stream

Summary:

MPEG Packs = 63
System headers = 1
Private Stream 1 packets = 2, total bytes = 3482
Subpicture stream 0 packets = 1, total bytes = 1700
Subpicture stream 1 packets = 1, total bytes = 1780
Padding Stream packets = 1, total bytes = 429
Private Stream 2 packets = 2, total bytes = 1998
Video stream 0 packets = 60, total bytes = 121052

Anyway, here is a link to for the transition and a still http://www.geocities.com/bonzi5252/ the still is the smaller one. I should say that I ripped these vobs with vStrip but that shouldn't make a difference should it?

[BoNz1]

I think I was talking nonsense about these vobs being in a different colorspace. But, there definitely is something strange going on here. All of the stills are like this, all 133 and some of the transitions as well as some of the motion 'menus.'

[hakko504]

Originally posted by BoNz1
Found stream id 0xE0 = Video Stream 0
Stream id 0xE0 is encrypted
I'd say that this is your problem... It seems vStrip only copied the vobs, not decrypted them... It has happened to me once or twice too - vstrip is quite hard to use, but when it does work then it's the best ripper.

[BoNz1]

I told it to remove the macrovision. Anyway, I will try it again of course. The only reason I used vstrip because it has the option to split by cell id which is handy when dealing with menus.
EDIT: Ok, got it to work. What I did was just rip it w/ dvddecypter and then split it with vstrip once it was on my hard drive. Unfortunately, some of the stills still have small green blocks in the lower right hand corner. Oh well. And it does appear that I was right, the stills are indeed in RGB-24.

[gEEkster]

Hi,
I just found out recently that Donald Graft's new version
of mpeg2dec3.dll, which he calls mpeg2dec3dg.dll,
is able to read MPEG still frames (i.e. bitmaps) from a .vob
or .mp2 stream! This is great news for those of us who want to
process ALL files on a DVD, e.g. in order to convert from PAL to
NTSC domain :)

The previous versions of mpeg2decx.dll could not process MPEG still
files. AVS scripts which use the old mpeg2dec3.dll
for the MpegSource() command choke when accessing MPEG still
files, while ones which use the new .dll version from Donald Graft display the image wonderfully.

Now we can feed MPEG still files to our favorite encoders
in .d2v projects and AVS scripts.

If you see this post, Donald, thank you for anticipating our needs!
gs

[neuron2]

Originally posted by gEEkster
If you see this post, Donald, thank you for anticipating our needs!
I didn't anticipate your needs. I just made the MPEG2 decoding operate correctly. :D

But of course I am happy that things turned out this way.