Problems Ripping Planet Earth [HD-DVD]

[ghost_403]

I'm pretty new at ripping HD-DVD's, but I have got it working on most of the movies I've tried it on. I've been going the AnyDVD -> evodemux -> (eac3to + avisynth -> virtuadub) -> mkvmerge route, which has worked for me several times so far. However, I am having problems with the second of Planet Earth on disk 2. The episode itself is split into two files. The problem is that I can't get to about 5 minutes of the episode's video in the middle. After demuxing, it seems that those five minutes of video become unrenderable and are moved to the end of the .evo file. First half works fine, and everything after those five minutes works fine as well. The audio is all there. Any suggestions?

[ghost_403]

Okay, after playing with it for a while, I seem to have gotten it to work. Instead of following the rebuilt .evo route, I demuxed the video stream and used the Sonic HD codecs to play it in VirtualDub. I had to rename the ripped files from PEVOB002 and PEVOB003 to FEATURE_1 and FEATURE_2 to convince evodemux that they were one continuous file. Right now, I'm still encoding the Jungle episode on Disk 3, so I post a bit more when I confirm that it indeed works.

[ghost_403]

Now for Ghost's full guide on ripping episodic media:

So you've got some hi-def disks with episodes on them, and can't quite get that episode that spans the two disk halves. Fear not, I have found the solution.

What you'll need:
*Something to rip HD movies
*Evodemx
*Sonic HD Decoder (maybe there's some other free way to do it)
*Graphedit
*Avisynth 2.5 or later
*VirtualDub
*eac3to
*MKVMerge
You will notice that the list is pretty much identical to a requirement list for almost any other HD ripping guide.

1) Rip the disk to your harddrive
2) First important part. Rename the two parts that span the disk to FEATURE_1.evo and FEATURE_2.evo. It might be a good idea to finish the rest of the disk first, and you can do that just like any other HD movie.
3) Go to Evodemux and change the following option:
-Change extensions to vc1, ddp, and sup
-Check "Continue with the next EVO"
-Check "Count frames"
4) Read the file that you renamed FEATURE_1.evo, and let EVOdemux read it. Hit the demux button at the bottom, and let it run.
5) For the audio, just use eac3to normally. Check other guides if you're not sure how to do this.
6) Another important part. Instead of using the Hlaali media splitter, use the following graph:

File (Async) [for the file, use the *.vc1 file that you demuxed] -> Sonic HD Demuxer -> {Video In} Sonic Cinemaster VideoDecoder 4.2

Save that graph, whip up a quick avisynth script (again, see other guides, the script is nothing special).
7) Open up and render the script in VirtualDub.
8) Merge with MKVMerge
9) Enjoy your episode of whatever in HD.

So yeah, that's pretty much it. Just did it again, and it worked for a second time in a row.

[fenton06]

what I just did (successfully BTW) was to concatenate the files binarily into one file. I loaded it up into evodemux and boom...1 episode from 2 evo files.

[Blue_MiSfit]

I made two GRFs with Haali and WMV Decoder DMO, and loaded them both in to an avs, and did a simple splice with the + operator. I demuxed the audio tracks (which are actually vanilla AC3, even though EVODemux names them with the ddp extension), and did a simple copy /b to combine the two.

Worked like a charm :)

~MiSfit

[SixKiller]

I ran into some Problem with Cinemaster VideoDecoder.

I did everything they way you described it.

But when i try to load the GRF into AViSynth it tells me: "DirectShowSource: GRF file does not have an open Video Pin. Graph must have 1 output pin that will bid ....and so on"

Atm i dont know what to do, cause my graph should be correct: FileSource(Async, *.vc1 file from evodemux)-->Sonic HD Demuxer--> Sonic Cinemaster Videodecoder

Nothing more. When i add an renderer anf try to play it, it works fine.

Guessing Avisynth dont know what Pin to use, there are 3 (Video Out, SPU Out, CC Out).

Any Ideas?

Thanks in Advance.

[Blue_MiSfit]

Try a different filter graph:

Haali Splitter (EVO) --> WMV Decoder DMO

That works perfectly for me, as long as you have WMP 11 installed.

~MiSfit