UPDATE - Nightmares trying to backup Jam disk 1 (PAL) - UPDATE

[MikeHunt79]

This disk is well wierd, but this is my first attempt at this sorta thing, so I'm starting to admit defeat. :( Has anyone done this disk? And how was it done? (Jam is in episodes, it's not a film)

Anyway, I've set up DoItFast4U and all the other gubbins, and when I click "Do It!" Numenu4u comes up like it should, but as soon as it's finished copying the menu files over (over 900mb of them!), it crashes saying "run-time error 5"... Very strange. I really would like to be able to compress these menus down somehow, as there is almost 1 gig of them.

I'm now waiting for DVD Decryptor to finish doing it's thing, but I havent a clue whats gonna happen when it has.

[MikeHunt79]

It took a while, but now i appear to have some demuxed files on my HD. ReAuthorist didn't start automatically, so i fired it up manually. I tried telling it the rip folder, but it doesn't want to know. It keeps saying "unable to locate any compatible files". :(

[MikeHunt79]

Ok, I'm STILL trying to do this DVD, but I've now got everything pretty much sorted... I'm just stuck in the last part, yes, the ifoupdate part, but the problem could be Numenu4u related. I'll fill u in on what I've done so far, to help you lot to help me. :)

I used NuMenu4u on the menus for this DVD and it got the menus down to 255mb! So far so good.

DIF4U demuxed the video that I wanted, and it automatically put dummies in where needed.

Reauthorist and Scenarist worked great, and I now have the movie nice and small. I then coppied everything over to a new directory and followed the ifoupdate sticky thread to the letter.

Finally, I played my thing in powerdvd, and the copyright message, VTS_01_1.VOB, showed up fine (i didn't re-encode this, so I didn't ifoupdate VTS_01_0.IFO. Now the menu showed up but none of the items were selectable. :( I let the menu go for 30 seconds (it looped), and the menu items were now selectable. I tried selecting the item, and it crashed powerDVD. Thats as far as i@Ve got... HELP!

Also, I tried opening the menu that numenu4u produced on it's own, (this was made before Reauthorist), the items were still selectable only after 30 seconds, but it still worked.. eg, powerdvd wouldn't crash.

Oh, heres my directory listing if thats any use:

Directory of C:\JAM_FINAL\VIDEO_TS
02/03/2004 20:32 <DIR> .
02/03/2004 20:32 <DIR> ..
02/03/2004 19:52 8,192 VIDEO_TS.BUP
02/03/2004 19:52 8,192 VIDEO_TS.IFO
02/03/2004 20:08 12,288 VTS_01_0.BUP
02/03/2004 20:08 12,288 VTS_01_0.IFO
01/04/2003 21:30 28,596,224 VTS_01_1.VOB
02/03/2004 20:17 299,008 VTS_02_0.BUP
02/03/2004 20:17 299,008 VTS_02_0.IFO
01/03/2004 13:00 267,403,264 VTS_02_0.VOB
02/03/2004 18:26 1,073,522,688 VTS_02_1.VOB
02/03/2004 18:32 1,073,717,248 VTS_02_2.VOB
02/03/2004 18:38 1,073,655,808 VTS_02_3.VOB
02/03/2004 18:43 1,073,690,624 VTS_02_4.VOB
02/03/2004 18:44 118,460,416 VTS_02_5.VOB
13 File(s) 4,709,685,248 bytes
2 Dir(s) 1,125,138,432 bytes free