Ripping Cindy Crawford DVD makes scratchy video and warbly audio

[rosiegecko]

Hi,

I'm doing a DVD compilation project that necessitates ripping/burning a Cindy Crawford exercise DVD. So far all of the other DVDs I've ripped have converted beautifully from VOB to AVI using AutoGK, but for some reason I can't do it with Cindy. The video is all scratchy and the audio is warbly.
Any advice would be much appreciated, thanks!

[Guest]

Welcome to the forum but please read and follow our rules. We don't appreciate 'cute' thread titles. Your title has to describe your post's contents. I have fixed yours. Please follow that approach in the future.

Also, you have chosen the wrong forum for your post. You are talking about AutoGK, so you should post there. I will move it for you.

[rosiegecko]

Got it. Cute has been bound and gagged, replaced by an orthodox rule-abiding doom9 cosmopolite. Sincerest apologies for the discord.

[Guest]

I'm actually trying to help you. First, lots of people will skip by a post with your original title without reading it. So I have increased your thread's exposure for you. Second, more people that can help you will read your thread because I've moved it into the correct forum.

[rosiegecko]

Right, it occurred to me that my response sounded sarcastic, but really it was just acknowledging that your point was well taken and I'll be more careful in the future. But now that this post has been responded to several times without any mention of the question at hand (people may not open it, assuming that it has been answered), I am going to delete the whole thread and re-post. I didn't see anything in the rules against that.
Thanks for your help.

[setarip_old]

And as I asked in your original thread (which you've since deleted) - Have you played the original DVD on your PC, to see if it exhibits the same problematic behavior?

[rosiegecko]

I'm sorry! I'm sure that when I deleted the thread your question wasn't there. Yes, I can play the original DVD on WMP without any problem. I've tried a variety of methods to convert it to AVI format, the last of which being AutoGK, but it always produces the same result. Exactly the same--meaning, the warblyness and scratchiness seem to occur in all the same places.

Thanks for responding, any ideas for how to solve this would be great.

[Guest]

What do you mean by "scratchy" video?

[rosiegecko]

The picture is completely butchered. It has a very "digital" effect, as if the pixel count were very low, and it's all chopped up by messy moving streaks. About every 10 seconds the picture will jolt back to normal, and looks flawless, but after a couple seconds it will become disrupted again.

Also, you can somewhat understand the narration, but it sounds almost it's coming from under water.

Sorry, that's about the best I can describe it, hopefully it rings some sort of bell...

[Guest]

Rip the DVD using DVD Decrypter. Then open the VOBs in DGIndex. Hit F5 for preview. Is the video messed up?

[setarip_old]

@rosiegecko

What software and procedures did you use to "rip" this particular DVD to your hard drive?

Your description of the behavior almost sounds like the result one could expect by simply using Windows Explorer to copy a CSS-protected DVD to a hard drive...

[squid_80]

Your description of the behavior almost sounds like the result one could expect by simply using Windows Explorer to copy a CSS-protected DVD to a hard drive...
Nope, sounds to me like a very low bitrate has been used for audio and video compression.

Warbly audio = what you get with very low mp3 bitrate.
Blocky video that looks ok every 10 seconds then degrades = low bitrate mpeg4, most codecs by default put a keyframe at ~10s intervals which would explain the "flawless" frames.

[rosiegecko]

Hey, I did exactly that, using DVD decrypter and dgindex, and it plays great now! So how can I go from here to turn it into an AVI file that I can edit?
Thanks so much for all your help!

[Guest]

Read the Quick Start guide that comes with DGMPGDec. You'll make an Avisynth script and then open it in VirtualDub.