DVD chapter/movie recognition and alternative software

[Sasa]

Hi,

I love AutoGK, but I am having this annoying problem with the it. Sometimes, when I load a VIDEO_TS folder into it I get this dialog saying that there are multiple parts/chapters whatever. It might say 1. 1:30:00, 2. 0:12:00 and so on. Very often, when this is the case I can not predict which section is what. Also, if I select a session, and say I only want section 1, in my encoded file, I get everything. So instead of the avi being 1:30:00 it is like 1:42:00 or worse. This means that I have chosen the wrong filesize and I don't get the quality I want.

So, my question is. Is there a software that will take an VIDEO_TS folder and create lots of VOBs with all these chapters/sections as a single file. That way I could look into them and decide which ones to encode. Also, this would have to be fully automatic. I know that I can do this with some of DVD authoring packages, but I don't want to author, because I don't have time for this. I just want the VOBs rearranged and cut into pieces like this:


Part1.vob
Part2.vob
Part3.vob
...
Partn.vob


Now I can use AutoGK to encode Part1.vob (main movie) and Part3.vob (making of) into seperate AVIs.


Is there such a thing?

[manono]

Decrypt using DVD Decrypter in IFO Mode.

[Sasa]

Yes, but what do I do if I already have the decrypted folder?

[manono]

I've never needed to do it, because I do it right the first time, but this should work I think. Open the IFO containing those multiple PGCs in PGCDemux. Make sure you're in PGC Mode. Make sure PGC Selection Domain is Titles. Under Options, check only "Create A PGC VOB" (along with "One File Per VID"?). Choose your PGC number in the drop down box, choose an Output Folder, and "Process". Here's PGCDemux:

http://jsoto.posunplugged.com/dvdtools.htm

[Sasa]

OMG, thank you! :)

It has even command line support, so I can completely automate my task. Thank you again.

[Sasa]

Do you know where I can email jsoto? I have a question about the command line usage. The thing is that if you use PgcDemux on the command line it returns immediately, even it is going to work for 20 more minutes. This makes it hard to use in a batch file. Maybe I am doing something wrong, but I don't think so. I am just doing:

PgcDemux.exe -customvob bva F:\CDR\DVD\VTS_01_0.IFO F:\cdr\dvdtest

[TAC109]

Checkout the "start /w" command

[manono]

Hi-

Near the top of the IFO/VOB Editors Forum is a sticky about PGCDemux. Click on his name and you can PM him.

[Sasa]

Cool, thank you.