Multiangle DVD reencoding

[v_o_r_t_e_x]

Hello

I just want to share my experience with multiangle DVDs like
Star Wars. I tried many tools and some of them were able to
extract the angle correctly. If I played the movie with MPC or
any other player, the movie was correct as long as the IFO files
were availble. If I played the VOBs directly, the other angle was
still present!

Why is this a problem? If you want to reencode the movie to
another format e.g. H.264, you'll have the first and second angle
just one after the other. And this for each "part". Therefore the
movie was not playable at all and also the sound was out of
sync.

After trying many tools I eventually found ONE that works:
- Use AnyDVD to deactivate any copy protection.
- Use DVDShrink to rip the DVD (and only the ANGLE that is needed).
Just set the compression to 100%, then nothing is reencoded. Only the angle will be removed.
- Use a tool to reencode the VOBs to the format needed.

So only DVDShrink was working!

For me it's a working solution! Maybe that helps others not to
spend so much time on this...

:helpful:

[setarip_old]

Hi!

You can, likewise, use DVD Decrypter set to select only one angle...

[blutach]

Or you can strip off the undesired angle after your rip with IfoEdit (http://www.videohelp.com/tools/IfoEdit), DVD Remake Pro (http://www.dimadsoft.com/dvdremakepro/index.php), VobBlanker (http://jsoto.posunplugged.com/vobblanker.htm) etc etc etc.

Playing the VOBs alone without the IFOs to direct playback couldn't possibly work as you have discovered since the angles are, by definition, interleaved.

Regards

[k-c-ksum]

ifoedit'ed here. Other methods would still leave a slight stutter at the angle point back when i backed these up

[blueseame]

Try some other one such as SPAM links removed.

[v_o_r_t_e_x]

Hi!

You can, likewise, use DVD Decrypter set to select only one angle...

Of course I tried that, but that didn't work. When playing the movie
using the IFO file, everything was fine. But when playing directly
from the VOB files, the other angle was still there.

And I tried recoding these VOBs. And guess, the second angle
was present and the audio out of sync of course.

So the only tool I found that really removes the 2nd angle out
of the VOB is DVDShrink so far. Playing the VOBs was possible, but it stoped once the part with multiangle appeared. But
recoding worked fine. The 2nd anlge was not present anymore.
Playing using the IFO files worked as well.

[Dark Shikari]

Of course I tried that, but that didn't work. When playing the movie
using the IFO file, everything was fine. But when playing directly
from the VOB files, the other angle was still there.

And I tried recoding these VOBs. And guess, the second angle
was present and the audio out of sync of course.

So the only tool I found that really removes the 2nd angle out
of the VOB is DVDShrink so far. Playing the VOBs was possible, but it stoped once the part with multiangle appeared. But
recoding worked fine. The 2nd anlge was not present anymore.
Playing using the IFO files worked as well.
But you don't encode from the VOBs... you encode from an m2v project file or similar.

Obviously if you're encoding from the VOBs the only program that will work is one that directly removes it from the VOBs itself.