Ripping episodes from DVD

[jinkazuya]

Well...I have a set of American DVD drama and each DVD contains four episodes. Although it is copy-right protected, I don't think it is illegal to do so because I already own the original set and I don't sell it for profits. I just use it as my backup in place of the original. Putting this aside, I use dvdfab all in one app to rip it.

Unfortunately, as soon as the app was loaded, it just gave me one big junk of data whose length or duration is about 2:30:45...Usually when I insert the other type of series, dvdfab just recognizes it right away and automatically split the episodes equally for me, so what I do is just select which episode I want to rip, which is about 45 minute each.

But this time, it just gives me a whole junk, whose length is 2:30:45, which is the total time of four episodes. There is no way for me to rip the drama.

I am just wondering if there is a way to get around with it.

[cynthia_old]

Split the "whole junk" with DVD Shrink into separate episodes, like you want it.

[jinkazuya]

I will give it a try and if there is something I don't understand I will post my question.

BTW...If I use DVD shrink, what about the subtitles?

[cynthia_old]

The subs are still carried with you even if you split.

[jinkazuya]

Well...thanks a lot for the recommendation

But I still have a question...Although I succeed in splitting with DVD shrink, but I have to do it manually by setting the starting frame and end frame for each episode...Is it possible for the app (DVD shrink) to do this automatically?:)

[yetanotherid]

Are you using DVD Shrink's re-author function?
Once in re-author mode and you've loaded the ripped files, the episodes (amongst other things) should be listed as titles in the right hand pane. They're not always numbered in the correct order (it pays to check) and sometimes episodes can have more than one title... but basically once in re-author mode you click on a title in the right pane (which would be an episode) then drag it to the left pane. If there's six episodes then you need to drag the appropriate six titles across (you can play them using the preview function). Or if you want to save each episode as it's own mini DVD (by itself) you can drag them over and save them one at a time. One you're done, backup the re-authored DVD as a new DVD to your hard drive. Or if you want to keep the episodes completely separate back each title up as a new DVD after you've dragged it to the left pane, then delete the title from the left pane, drag another one across, back it up.....

Keep in mind if you do re-author the whole DVD and then back it up, DVD Shrink is designed to re-encode the backup so it'll fit on a blank disc. If you don't want it to do that (which you don't if you're planning on converting the episodes to AVI/MP4 etc, then go into DVD Shrink's options and change the size of the backups to at least a dual layer disc, or something larger. That way DVD Shrink will save the re-authored disc as a new DVD to your hard drive without shrinking it (re-encoding it) in the process.

[Chetwood]

It's quite unusual for Shrink to be able to work on a protected disc DVDfab can't handle. Have you updated to the latest version? The ripping functionality stays free.

[jmac698]

For vobsets which are not separated by title,
use pgcdemux.
Select VTS_01_0.IFO for input,
by PGC
in dropdown, select PGC which gives all episodes (ie, 4x22min=1:24)
check only Create PGC VOB, then One File per VID
Process
result is 4 episodes in own vob (single file, may be oversized >1G).
It's very quick.

I've completely automated this in a batch file, and can also do anamorphic encodes :)

[jmac698]

put in a file, name it extract.bat:

mkdir output
PgcDemux -noaud -nosub -nocellt -pgc 1 -customvob bnvasl VTS_01_0.IFO output
PgcDemux -noaud -nosub -nocellt -pgc 2 -customvob bnvasl VTS_01_0.IFO output
PgcDemux -noaud -nosub -nocellt -pgc 3 -customvob bnvasl VTS_01_0.IFO output
PgcDemux -noaud -nosub -nocellt -pgc 4 -customvob bnvasl VTS_01_0.IFO output


put in rename.bat:

rename output\VTS_01_1_001.VOB "1-01.vob"
rename output\VTS_01_1_002.VOB "1-02.vob"
rename output\VTS_01_1_003.VOB "1-03.vob"
rename output\VTS_01_1_004.VOB "1-04.vob"