Ripping a Tv series DVD?

[kopykat]

Hi all,
Im trying to ripp a DVD of the TV series 24 I just got so I can later transfer each episode in Xvid format to my archos gmini.
I read the autogk guide and I selected what appears to be the first episode on one of the dvds - its a PGC and its lenght is 42 minutes - makes sense to me that it is a full episode.
I select that there will not be any file splitting. hit the rip button and end up with a 24 minute long vob file.
Can anyone explain to me why Im getting such a short lenght vob file instead of a 42min vob?
thank you.

[Matthew]

Are you sure it is 24 mins, don't trust the length reported by PowerDVD, etc.

You can load the vob in virtualdubmod, say, or simply check that the beginning and end of the episode are there. The size of the vob should also be an indicator (i.e. (total size-extras)/4).

Also, as an aside you may want to consider using cli, e.g. the following demuxes all audio/video streams for a PGC. Of course, you may want to stick with vobs. Check out the readme.txt installed with DVD Decrypter.

SET DRIVE=J:
SET DIR=C:\test
SET VTSNUM=1
SET PGCNUM=2
DVDDecrypter.exe /MODE IFO /SRC %DRIVE% /DEST %DIR% /VTS %VTSNUM% /PGC %PGCNUM% /DEMUX * /OVERWRITE YES /SPLIT NONE /START /CLOSE