Robot4Rip vs. manual .D2V file creation

[Dr.Khron]

I've been following the GK guides for ripping, which tells you to use Robot4Rip to automate the ripping, indexing, demuxing and audio re-encoding processes...

When you use Robot4Rip, it doesn't let you pick a section of the movie to index (by picking begining and ending brackets): it indexes the entire PGC. When I used to run DGIndex manually, I would set the brackets so as to clip out the FBI warnings at the begining and ending.

What I came up with as a workaround is this:
1. Run Robot4Rip and let it do its work from start to finish.
2. Manually open DGIndex, and manually open the .D2V file that Robot4Rip created.
3. Set the begining and ending brackets inside DGIndex.
4. Set the Mux options to "Disable" since the audio has already been demuxed and re-encoded.
5. Save the new .D2V file with F4.

Well, what do you think? Is this the best way to handle it, or is there a way to make Robot4Rip stop in the middle of the process to let you set begining and ending points for the indexing?

[prOnorama]

I just manually open DGIndex, select the VOB's I want, do a preview (F5) set start/end point and then save the project (+ demux audio streams I want), done.

So I see no need for Robot4Rip, never used it ;)

[Dr.Khron]

Yeah, I'm leaning that direction, but having Robot4Rip automatically rencode the audio streams is kinda nice.

Robot4Rip has some issue, tho.. I could only get it to rip straight from DVD, files on my HD from DVD Decrypter didn't work at all.

[prOnorama]

I think Robot4Rip is an abandoned prog (for a long time) and no one has the sources (except maybe the original author)

So that's another reason not to use it anymore IMO

I use GK (+ BeSweet) to re-encode the audio streams before I rip the video, you can do it seperate from the video

[xjqian]

Yeah, I'm leaning that direction, but having Robot4Rip automatically rencode the audio streams is kinda nice.
I'm also using Robot4Rip(0.6) for processing the Rip, Audio and Subtitle. Have to update various progams behind the scene though. But as a GUI, Robot4Rip gets the job done for me.


Robot4Rip has some issue, tho.. I could only get it to rip straight from DVD, files on my HD from DVD Decrypter didn't work at all.
I have no problem using the "scan folder" to process VOBs in my HD. Just disable "PGC rip".

[xjqian]

4. Set the Mux options to "Disable" since the audio has already been demuxed and re-encoded.

Don't you have to chop the head and tail of the audio stream since now your audio stream is longer than your video stream?