Opening IFO files with XMpeg

[Oxxide]

With some DVDs, XMpeg opens the IFO file without any trouble, and does the encoding and the subtitling automatically, and everything works smoothly. With some others, however, it pops up the IFO contents for me to pick the video, audio and sub tracks. I do that, click OK, and it disappears, and the program does nothing. It returns to its original state.
Is there a fix / workaround for this? What I'm doing is, encoding the vob's individually and the subs separately, and using VobSub.

[khp]

How did you rip the DVD ?

[thesinsoftime]

yes i get the same problem!!!

Originally posted by Oxxide
With some DVDs, XMpeg opens the IFO file without any trouble, and does the encoding and the subtitling automatically, and everything works smoothly. With some others, however, it pops up the IFO contents for me to pick the video, audio and sub tracks. I do that, click OK, and it disappears, and the program does nothing. It returns to its original state.
Is there a fix / workaround for this? What I'm doing is, encoding the vob's individually and the subs separately, and using VobSub.

[EuGeNiLe]

i too have ran into this problem.. i think it is how you rip the dvd... usually when the ifo shows more than one title is when i run into this problem.. so if this happens i just open up the first vob.. and it usually selects the following ones..

[Oxxide]

I've been using SmartRipper. I try to open the vob's onve the ifo fails and it works, but since there are, say, 9 episodes spread over 14 VOBs, it's a real pain to encode them separately and join the avis.

So if I play around with the SmartRipper options, could this be fixed?

[khp]

The problem is that smart ripper, when using movie mode, will remove multiple angles and secondary video streams, this renders the ifo file invalid because the indexes found in the ifo file nolonger point to valid entry points in the vob files.

To solve this just use backup mode in smartripper, this will rip the vobfiles without changeing the structure of the vobfiles (only decryption occours).

But please don't use this method unless you use ifo parsing in flask or another tool that supports ifo parsing.

[sarahjh69]

forget the IFO file
open the first VOB with XMPEG and it
will find all the others on its own!

[REIGN_]

i have the same problem even when i open the .ifo file directly from the dvd

[chipzoller]

I use cladDVD 2.0 and have fine results.

Opening the .ifo file is valuable because the ifo file contains the exact time on how long that movie is. You can then change that into seconds and input it in your seconds box instead of checking compile whole file.

SmartRipper is good, but I would just recommend ripping the files straight off.




chip