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12th June 2007, 13:39
Right, the basic situation is that I bought the Funimation DBZ Remastered Season Set (6x DVD9) - however in true Funimation style I dislike their menus and the layout of the DVD - so I want to re-do the DVD + menus, but onto DVD5 - sounds simple enough.
BTW, DVD has no protection and is decrypted.
The DVD have this structure (NTSC DVD):
Title 1 (1x video, 2x audio) - An advert for other things
Title 2 (1x video, 2 angles, 3x audio, 2x sub) - The main episodes
Title 3 (1x video, 1x audio) - The episodes in a marathon feature
Now, Title 2 is divided into chapters as follows:
Chapter 2 - Episode intro
Chapters 3-7 - The episode
Chapter 8 - End credits
And so on for 7 episodes (ie ep2 has 9 as intro, 10-14 as ep, 15 as credits).
What I want to do is rip 1 copy of the intro, 1 copy of the credits, and then rip the episode into a single mpg ALL from Angle 2 and all using only the 1st Audio track
I've tried to do this with mencoder, mplayer, ffmpeg and all seem to produce audio or video problems at some point duriing the ripped .mpg file.
I then did this using VLC's sout and the output plays perfectly in VLC and actually appears to be a very clean mpeg - but is not a valid mpg file for DVD authoring, and when I transcode this in mencoder I get the audio/video problems as above.
Now, am I missing something here (I've tried almost every way I can think of to do this) or am I plainly doing something wrong (I'm more used to using Windows tools - as I've never run Linux as a desktop until now - but I have been using Linux and FreeBSD for 7 years on servers - but I want to do this using native Linux tools as much as possible [dont own a windows machine anymore]).
What would be the simplest way to rip a specific Chapter from a specific Title using a specific Angle and with a specific Audio Track (and no subtitles) into a DVD compliant mpg/vob/m2v/ac3 without getting horrible audio/video problems.
What I want ideally is a direct rip (no quality loss - so the same 448 a52 audio, the same 5500 video) but just with the features I want, where I can them fit 5 EPs + my own menu onto a single DVD5.
NB: the problem I'm having is that the VLC sout output (both muxed mpg and demuxed m2v ac3 [these fail mplex as it claims they arent valid]) is not a valid DVD mpg/vob - so dvdauthor and devede all wants to fiddle with it, which messed things up.
NB2: when I do an mplayer dumpaudio from the DVD, mplex again cant recognise this audio file - but works fine with the m2v dump - also mplayer dumps seem to have problems with certain chapters of the DVD, while VLC does not.
BTW, DVD has no protection and is decrypted.
The DVD have this structure (NTSC DVD):
Title 1 (1x video, 2x audio) - An advert for other things
Title 2 (1x video, 2 angles, 3x audio, 2x sub) - The main episodes
Title 3 (1x video, 1x audio) - The episodes in a marathon feature
Now, Title 2 is divided into chapters as follows:
Chapter 2 - Episode intro
Chapters 3-7 - The episode
Chapter 8 - End credits
And so on for 7 episodes (ie ep2 has 9 as intro, 10-14 as ep, 15 as credits).
What I want to do is rip 1 copy of the intro, 1 copy of the credits, and then rip the episode into a single mpg ALL from Angle 2 and all using only the 1st Audio track
I've tried to do this with mencoder, mplayer, ffmpeg and all seem to produce audio or video problems at some point duriing the ripped .mpg file.
I then did this using VLC's sout and the output plays perfectly in VLC and actually appears to be a very clean mpeg - but is not a valid mpg file for DVD authoring, and when I transcode this in mencoder I get the audio/video problems as above.
Now, am I missing something here (I've tried almost every way I can think of to do this) or am I plainly doing something wrong (I'm more used to using Windows tools - as I've never run Linux as a desktop until now - but I have been using Linux and FreeBSD for 7 years on servers - but I want to do this using native Linux tools as much as possible [dont own a windows machine anymore]).
What would be the simplest way to rip a specific Chapter from a specific Title using a specific Angle and with a specific Audio Track (and no subtitles) into a DVD compliant mpg/vob/m2v/ac3 without getting horrible audio/video problems.
What I want ideally is a direct rip (no quality loss - so the same 448 a52 audio, the same 5500 video) but just with the features I want, where I can them fit 5 EPs + my own menu onto a single DVD5.
NB: the problem I'm having is that the VLC sout output (both muxed mpg and demuxed m2v ac3 [these fail mplex as it claims they arent valid]) is not a valid DVD mpg/vob - so dvdauthor and devede all wants to fiddle with it, which messed things up.
NB2: when I do an mplayer dumpaudio from the DVD, mplex again cant recognise this audio file - but works fine with the m2v dump - also mplayer dumps seem to have problems with certain chapters of the DVD, while VLC does not.