Encoding multiple PGC into a single file

[spotter]

Normally, with episodic content, even though they have a "play all" button, one rips and encodes each episode separately. However, when it comes to things like extras where they might have lots of short clips, that doesn't work so well.

Or more to the point, I'm trying to encode the best of the colbert report. however, it's basically a large set of clips, but it has a "play all" option. I can rip the "play all" pgc and get all the clips, however, when I encode them, the audio gets progressivly more and more off from the video as the clips go by (its as if there's a small gap b/w each clip in the video, but no gap in the audio).

Any ideas how to fix/avoid this issue without ripping each clip to its own file?

[setarip_old]

Hi!

1) What software and procedures are you using to initially rip the DVD?

2) Does the initially ripped file playback properly?

3) What software and procedures did you use to convert the ripped file?

Do any of the suggestions made to you in your 2005 thread help with this problem?

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=759438#post759438

[spotter]

1) dvd decrypter (but also use vstrip)
2) sort of, i.e. I can play in media player classic but time length is off and it goes out of sync, but if I seek, it gets back in sync
3) I use autogk (load the ifo and it uses the vob) and automkv (just load the vob)

bascially it seems that all multiepisode rips that I do get this "out of sync" property.

the 2005 post was different, it was asking how to do multi episode rips in autogk, didn't know that it couldn't really handle ifo files and get the right pgc. Have to rip a single pgc for it to work right.

[setarip_old]

As an experiment, you might try using MPEG Mediator (just load the .VOB - or sequence of .VOBs) instead of AutoGK...

[spotter]

well, fixvts sort of works.

sort of means, that it gets rid of the sync problem and enables media player classic to play the video "normally". However, it also seems to move the cells around so that at least the last bit of the pgc plays at the beginning before it runs into the real beginning.

[setarip_old]

Did you try using MPEG Mediator instead of AutoGK?

[spotter]

Did you try using MPEG Mediator instead of AutoGK?

well, right now I'm trying automkv, I can try mpeg mediator as well I guess.

The basic problem seem to be that the video is about 2 seconds longer than the demuxed audio, as the video has extra frames without audio associated w/ them it seems.

[spotter]

mpeg mediator would need some work to get it to work in a decent manner for me (would need to investigate getting the right mp3 codec installed so I can do beyond 24000khz recordings for instance)