DVD Menus?

[sumotherdude]

Is anyone here ripping movies with menus? I've had limited success and wanted to see what you guys were doing - what methods or steps were you using. I've tried Derrows methods but must be missing somehting somewhere. I have no problems doing just the movie.

Thanks,

sumotherdude

[bru]

Originally posted by sumotherdude
Is anyone here ripping movies with menus? I've had limited success and wanted to see what you guys were doing - what methods or steps were you using. I've tried Derrows methods but must be missing somehting somewhere. I have no problems doing just the movie.

Thanks,

sumotherdude

Yes I've successfully ripping DVDs and making copies using my DVD-R of sometimes the entire compilation after reducing the bitrate. I must say that I wouldn't be able to do this without IFOEDIT a very great program thanks to Derrow. I have no problem copying every single VOB with the menus if I have to to a DVD-R and it played beautifully in my pioneer 302K.

What I generally do is this :
1. Rip the entire DVD VIDEO_TS directory to HD
2. re-encode the entire VOB using REMPEG and save the resulting .m2v files to a temporary directory. This will become your source M2V directory for remuxing.
3. open the main movie .IFO in IFOEDIT. Do a VOB Extras, Remux (from the M2V in the temp dir), strip if you have to, then check the rest except create new VIDEO_TS, and save it to a new directory (your new VIDEO_TS).
4. copy the menu of the main movie to the new dir.
5. open the rest of the IFOs. Do a VOB Extras, Remux and all (just like before), but save it to a new temporary directory. Don't save it to the new VIDEO_TS dir, because it will rewrite the VIDEO_TS.IFO and you don't want to do that.
6. Copy the rest of the IFOs, BUPs (except the VIDEO_TS.IFO / BUP) and VOBs in the new temporary directory created in step 5 to the new VIDEO_TS dir.
7. Copy the rest of the menus from the original to the new VIDEO_TS dir.
8. Open all the IFOs in the new VIDEO_TS dir and press "GET VTS Sectors" and save. Remember to open VIDEO_TS.IFO last.
9. Make sure there's no file extension other than the VOBs, IFOs and BUPs in your new VIDEO_TS dir.
10. Burn it.

I've been copying quite a lot of DVDs using this method, and it does work. If you don't want to copy the extras, just don't process all the VOBs.

I hope this could help. Everybody please correct me if I'm wrong.

-bru

[sumotherdude]

Thanks for that great information and thanks to Derrow for IFOEdit.

I've tried processing the menu VOBs but IFOEdit crashes with a illegal operation or something. I'll keep playing with it. I'll give your steps a try but I do have a question, are your ripping the VOB files indivudually or as one big file? Pardon the silly question.

Thanks again!

sumotherdude

[Derrow]

Best is, you rip the VOB files like they are on DVD.
Do not rip it to a big VOB file, cause of some kind of filesystem restrictions. This would only make trouble with some other proggs/tools.