Ripping only a certain PCG using AutoGK

[cogumel0]

Hi all,

I am using AutoGK v2.45 to try to rip a DVD I own.

That DVD is not your average movie but more like a presentation. This means that there's about 8 VOB files on the DVD and each VOB file has around 50 PCGs.

Basically each of these PCGs contains an interview with a different person. What I was trying to do was rip only a PCG instead of the whole VOB file.

I noticed that if I select the VOB instead of the INF file it doesn't even give me the choice to select a PCG, and that's fine.

I also noticed that when I select the INF I get a list of all PCGs in the VOBs it points to and asks me to choose which PCGs I want to rip, which is also fine, and the way I would have expected it to happen (even though it doesn't let me select more than 1 PCG at a time and that's kind of a pain in the neck, but I can live with it).

Now after having the PCG I want ripped selected, choosing an output file and setting the quality to a certain percentage, I just start the job.

Now, each of these PCGs has something like 1m-3m of movie, which should mean the job should be completed in under 5m.

Still, VirtualDub tells me the project is going to be something like 200mb and is going to take 30m (quality is set to 75%). After the encoding was finished I started watching the movie and realized it had actually ripped the whole VOB instead of just that PCG that was selected originally.

Just to make sure it wasn't user error I retried doing it 3 more times, with different VOBs and different PCGs inside the VOBs (making sure I wasn't always selecting PCG01) but it would always rip the whole VOB.

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong here and how to get this to work properly?

It's kind of a pain to have to rip the whole VOB and then manually cut it into 50 different files... Specially when the program I'm using apparently has the feature to automatically separate PCGs.


Thank you in advance,


cogumel0

[CWR03]

AutoGK won't separate PGC's, even if it displays them individually. Pre-rip the disk with DVD Decrypter in IFO mode, where you can select the individual PGC's.

[cogumel0]

So you are saying that in order to get just one PCG I must rip only that PCG to my computer from the DVD using DVD Decrypter and then encode just that one PCG?

And if I want 3 different PCG's I need to use DVD Decrypter 3x to rip it onto my computer and AutoGK 3x to encode it?

If I did get this right, that's a crap way of doing it :S



cogumel0

[cogumel0]

I mean, if AutoGK already knows that there's several PCGs in there and where each PCG starts then obviously it knows where each PCG ends as well (either before the next one begins or if it's the next one until the end of the VOB file(s)).

And I know that VirtualDub accepts only certain periods of time... As in... do not start in the beggining.. start at this given time/frame and go encode only until this time/frame.

So... why not go all the way and just simply finish the half implemented PCG property for AutoGK?

Looks like the only thing left is to actually pass this over to VirtualDub anyway, since the rest seems to already be done...

cogumel0

[CWR03]

I'd suggest you read the first post in this thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7770) before continuing.

[manono]

If I did get this right, that's a crap way of doing it :S

You did get this right, and I sort of agree with you. However, it's a well known limitation of AutoGK, and while it makes for a lot more work in your situation with a lot of PGCs in the same VTS, ordinarily it's not much trouble for people to decrypt each PGC to its own folder, as with some episodic DVDs, for example.

[Eorl]

I just found this thread with google (http://www.google.nl/search?q=autogk+uses+wrong+pgc&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a)* because I had the same nuisance. Just in case anyone else finds it in the same way, here's a little addition to the discussion: I found a part of the solution on this (http://forum.videohelp.com/topic279499.html) page, which explains how to batchscript DVD Decrypter. This solves the job of ripping all the PGC's seperately, but you still have to add the jobs manually to AutoGK. Well, maybe tomorrow's pie comes with sugar on top ;)

* from my perspective, it looked like the wrong pgc was choosen.