Weird desync problem

[Nameless_]

I'm having a problem I really need some help with. I'm having a problem encoding a movie of mine, through both methods I rely on. I'm not the most video-savvy guy, far from it infact, so my knowledge of this thusfar is rather limited. But up till now I've been having flawless success (as far as I can tell) in backing up my DVD's with both a dvd decrypt+robot4rip+gordian knot method, and with the autogk alone method. That is until I tried to back up the current dvd I'm working on.

The dvd is Inuyasha Movie 3 - Swords of an Honorable Ruler (english north american version). What happens when I try to encode it is as follows: By the first method, I never get past the robot4rip step. The vts the movie is in has a 30 second pgc, followed by the movie pgc, with two angles selectable. I've tried getting robot4rip to do both angles of the movie pgc, and every time it always copies the 30 second pgc for some reason. The disc is clean, and I even ran it through pgcedit. But pgcedit detected no problems at all, or even any copy protection. I had figured it might be arccos, but I don't know. Since that method was a bust, I tried Autogk.

Autogk actually succeeds in encoding the movie, but it fails to do it entirely right. The problem is such: The audio and video desync after a certain point. The intro part of the movie, about five minutes or less or so of backstory before the title comes up and whatnot encodes perfectly. The video is great, and the audio is in sync. Then for some reason, when it gets to the title of the movie and Kagome starts giving a shpleal about her life up till then and whatnot, the movie starts jerking and repeating sometimes, and the audio will either be occuring before the scene its supposed to be with, or occuring after it. If I skip to a later point in the movie, the jerking stops, but the audio is still far out of sync.

I'm trying to encode it as Xvid (as I have with all my other movies). I'm not sure what other info I may need to post to help get a way to fix it. I attached the log file from the autogk attempt in case that might help somehow.

Anyhow, I'm curious to know if anyone else has encoded this movie before and have had these problems and managed to fix them, or had similar problems with other movies and how you fixed those, or I'd simply like to know in general how I can possibly fix this problem.

All help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[CWR03]

Nice first post, far better than the "why doesn't my movie play" we usually see.

You should have your problem solved if you rip the movie with DVD Decrypter in .IFO mode with file splitting set to "None," and selecting only the main PGC. It sounds like AutoGK is selecting all the angles and encoding them together into the movie.

Edit: You can paste your logfile right into your post, preferably with code tags, so you won't have to wait for a mod to approve your attachment. Likewise with photo's and movie clips (I prefer imageshack.us and badongo.com for those, respectively).

[jel]

@ Nameless_

hi and welcome to the forum!

as CWR03 has already said ... great first post :)
i have approved your attachment.

rock on
j

[Nameless_]

Thank you, I appreciate the help. However, I haven't been able to quite act on it just yet. I now seem to be stuck unable to rip the entire movie pgc in ifo mode on dvd decryptor (with the file split set to none as well). I've tried it several times now with the same result. It gets to 87% completion on ripping it, then stops and says there isn't enough space on my drive for it. This does not seem possible to me, as the file is a mere 4.8 gigs, and my drive has 22 gigs of free space left still.

So, once again, I am at a loss.

[check]

Hmmm, you are ripping to the right drive and you've doublechecked you have the space? If the file was borking at 4gb I'd guess it was because you have a FAT32 formatted harddrive, but 4.8 sounds a bit strange. Have you tried to open up the resulting file to see what happens towards the end?

[Nameless_]

Yes, it is ripping to the right drive and all. And it is a FAT32 formatted drive (an external drive, by the way). Is there some sort of issue with such drives and file sizes over 4 gigs? I don't really recall ever running into that problem before.

And supposing that is the problem, can I tell dvd decrypt to split the file up and still be able to get the whole movie encoded together somehow in the end?

[setarip_old]

Hi!

FAT32 format limits the maximum INDIVIDUAL filesize to 4Gbs...

[Nameless_]

So......what should I do?

[CWR03]

Is your primary drive not able to perform the task?

[Nameless_]

Well currently, no. It's almost full as it is only a 20 gig drive. That's why I use my external, since that one has 80 on it. But I had no idea the format type made that kind of difference. Upon having a look at it, my primary drive is aparently NTFS format. So I'm gonna try clearing up space on that one and try the rip again, and hopefully it'll go this time.

[check]

DVD Dec does have a split command in the options somewhere, set it to under 4gb (anyhting less should work).

[castellanos]

Originally posted by Nameless_:
The video is great, and the audio is in sync. Then for some reason, when it gets to the title of the movie and Kagome starts giving a shpleal about her life up till then and whatnot, the movie starts jerking and repeating sometimes, and the audio will either be occuring before the scene its supposed to be with, or occuring after it. If I skip to a later point in the movie, the jerking stops, but the audio is still far out of sync.

Just an idea: Are you sure you ripped only one angle of the DVD?
Greetings! :)

[Nameless_]

Freed up enough space, and I seem to have gotten a successful encoding now. Haven't watched the resulting movie the whole way through yet to completely verify, but I jumped to various points and the video and audio seem to be in either perfect or near-perfect sync now.

Many thanks for the help guys. :thanks:

[CWR03]

You can format your external drive to NTFS, presumably without losing the data, though I've never tried.