Multiple episodes on one DVD??? HOW??

[Jeffg30]

Ok,

Is it possible to use GK on DVD's with Multiple episodes on one DVD?

I am trying to make a divx copy of my Soprano's season one and two DVD set so I can watch them at work. (during my free time of course :devil: )

I cannot see any way to do that. I use smartripper and it just seems to come up with 1 episode. I might be doing something wrong.

Before I try to find another product to use on these multiple episode DVD's (I have a few others), I wanted to see if any of you have done this. I prefer to stick with GK. So Far all my rips have come out perfect.

Email Godfatherfan33@yahoo.com

Thanks,

Jeff Giuliani

Aka Mafiacapo

[jggimi]

Yes, you can do it. The problem you have with smartripper is that Movie mode selects only angle 1 of the longest program chain. So, you need to run smart ripper again and again, creating additional vob files on your hard drive.

Start up Smartripper. Note that it selects the longest (or the first, if they're all the same length) program chain. Rip that one to a vob file..or set of vob files. Now, select the NEXT program chain and rip again. And so on.

Open DVD2AVI. Select your ripped vobs, in order. Save project.

[Jeffg30]

I'll give it a try....thanks

[benafk]

Another method (if you don't mind one large AVI) is to use the Files Selection in Smart Ripper to select all the VOB's in the section that Smart Ripper defaults to (generally you will notice that it selects the correct files for you).

I have used this for the following DVD's
Sex in the city season 1 & 2
OZ season 1

It is nicer to separate the specific episodes, but I didn't know how at the time.

[muralin]

easy. another good choice is to use dvddecrypter. decrypt all VOBs and use DVD2avi to select each episode & encode.

i decrypted 2 DVDs at a time and renamed the files to be 1 contigous list & then used dvd2avi->gnot->vdub 2pass to encode. i set it up 1 nite and about 12 hrs later, got thr avi file.

by the way, i had a problem if the wav file is over 2GB. i used besweet to generate the VBR mp3 audio file. worked fine for me.

[Yupper3D]

Originally posted by muralin
easy. another good choice is to use dvddecrypter. decrypt all VOBs and use DVD2avi to select each episode & encode.


What about the sound? How did you join all of the sound files?

Thanks!

-Yupper

[manono]

Hi-

I assume he didn't separate the audio at the decrypting stage, but got the AC3 from DVD2AVI. So there shouldn't be any need to join any audio files. Unless I misunderstood both muralin's post and your question.

[Yupper3D]

I'm not sure how he did it either. I did end up getting separate ac3 files drom DVD decrypter which I joined with the copy command:

copy /b file_1.ac3+file_2.ac3+...+file_n.ac3 full.ac3

Then used BeSeet on "full.ac3" and let GK take care of the rest of the process.
The only thing is that in the Sopranos case, each DVD is four hours long, and there are 4 DVD's total. Imagine the quiality of a DivX file when trying to compress 4 hours of video into a single 700Mb cd.

I guess I could use robot4rip for each of the 13 episodes of the DVD set and create a ~350Mb file of each hour-long episode. This way I would be able to have separate episodes but I would end up with 6 to 7 cd's for the first season (2 episodes per cd, each DVD has 4 episodes).

Any ideas?

[commando]

After reading these posts i'm still don't know how to rip multiple episodes off a single dvd.

I'm trying with my Simpsons DVD - there are 4 episodes on each disk, and they're spread across 5 vob files. Is there an easy/automated/semi automated way to extract each episode and encode it to its own avi? Someone suggested Robot4Rip, will that help with this?

Thanks for any suggestions :)

[killingspree]

Originally posted by commando
. Is there an easy/automated/semi automated way to extract each episode and encode it to its own avi? Someone suggested Robot4Rip, will that help with this?

Thanks for any suggestions :)
hi,
well robot4rip will be the easiest way to do this imho:
just go like this: I assume that each episode is it's own PGC (or even vts which will make things even easiert!)

anyway, in robot4rip, select the first PGC (where the first episode is) and let it rip... if you want to you can also encode the audio)

afterwards just run r4r on every PGC/VTS set that contains an episode. then just use gknot and enter a filesize of 350MB so you can fit 2 episodes on one disk. i wouldn't suggest to go for more episodes if they're really 1 hour long. i did manage to put 4 simpsons episodes onto one disk with 2 audio languages though ;)

another way would be to rip the PGCs/VTS sets seperately using DVDdecrypter (in ifo mode) and then following the same procedure as for every other movie!

hope this helps,
steVe

[commando]

Ok, I think I get you. So basically you're saying that using DVD Decryptor you can extract a VOB file that is represents a single, complete episode on the disk. Then you encode each VOB file separately using the usual GK methods?

[commando]

Ok, made some progress, thanks KillingSpree.

Each episode is in it's own PGC, but not in it's own VTS. I grabed PGC1 fine with DVD Decoder, and got the whole episode. The problem is it doesn't seem to want to get PGC 2 or 3 - just number one. I click on each PGC then hit the "copy" button, but only #1 comes back.

Any more suggestions?

[killingspree]

are you using dvddecrypter or robot4rip?

in dvddec you should just be able to select the PGC in question and then hit the DVD to HD button and it should copy the PGC in question to your HD

steVe

[commando]

Ok, here's the answer : when you rip PGC2 it's renamed to VTS_01_1.VOB no your hard drive, not VTS_01_2.VOB like I was expecting!

Hopefully people coming along after me will read this and not ask such simple questions... or perhaps i'll write my own FAQ some time.

[powerslave]

I am attempting to do the same now with the sopranos dvd set. How did yours come out? I decided to do each episode separate to 350mb and put 2 on each cd using xvid. The dvd's have alot of noise from what i can see. Just curious to see what you ended up using, thanks.

[commando]

I used Divx and took each 22 minute episode down to 220MB. I guess the simpsons is quite compressable though, being a cartoon with not too much detail. It came out great! When the "camera" pans things get a bit blurry, but it's not bad, and could be partly because of the crude animation in the early simpsons episodes.