DVD Decrypter - problem with movie: Training Day

[dave268]

I ripped training day with DVD Decrypter, then converted to SVCD using DVD2SVCD. The beginning had the FBI warning, R Rating blip and some other peripheral blip. The sound was totally out of sync - by many minutes. the bin files had 6 character extensions and their sizes were way off. Very weird.

I next ripped training day with Smartripper 2.41 and then converted to SVCD using DVD2SVCD - all settings identical: CBR 2520 ADS 48 -> 44.1 @ 128 KBS etc. This time near perfect - about 15 secs distortion about half way thru movie. That was kinda strange, considering all the rest was perfect.

Anybody have this experience with training day ? or have some idea why, out of the blue I would have some distortion in the middle of the movie when all the rest is perfect ???

[Nick]

General problem posts belong in Basic really so I've moved this one.

There are some new protection systems on DVD which older rippers such as SmartRipper cannot handle. I think this is causing the mid-movie distortion

I am unsure why ripping with DVD Decryptor is giving sync issues. I only remember hearing of this once. If I remember correctly the solution was to rip to an ISO with DVD Decryptor. Mount this in a virtual drive software such as Daemon Tools. Then use DVD2SVCD to rerip the files with internal routines and convert.

Give it a go, see if it works for this one.

[jsoto]

DVDDecripter in FILE mode rips all the files to the HD. In ISO mode rips the whole DVD to an image. In both cases, the VTS where the main movie is included, is ripped completely. That means, if there are more than one title in the VTS (let's say, main movie, some FBIs, intros, trailers...) they are also ripped

Smartripper in movie mode (IIRC, the default) rips only the main movie, isolating the main movie from the rest of titles in the same VTS, which are nnot ripped.

D2S needs a VOB with the main movie only. You can create it with Smartripper or let D2S to rip the DVD (including the case it was already ripped). It is in the rip phase when D2S isolates the main movie from the rest of titles in the same VTS.

Finally, Smartripper usually fails if the last cell of the movie has a VOBID lower than the first VID of the main movie. You can see the first *.VOB file with the usuakl size during the ripping process, and, just in the last cell, the file becomes very small.

jsoto

[dave268]

I didn't make any changes to the DVD Decrypter settings that seemed to work OK previously. Movies ripped with smartripper 2.41 that were a couple years newer than training day were perfect from start to finish: Such as Man on Fire. I guess a lot of you are very familiar with this stuff and so don't need the more detailed every day language type descriptions I would need in order to follow this stuff.

[ralphthedog]

dave268, is it a multi angle DVD?...........Does it have a directors cut/theatrical release on it?

Have seen some weird going out of sync in the middle stuff with a couple of those (aliens).

[jsoto]

In DVD2SVCD DVD rip tab, check "Activate DVD ripping". It should be enough.

jsoto