Work around solution to DVD Play in Ifoedit?

[viper99]

Hello,

It is well know that Ifoedit does not work well with Windows XP and I have XP. Perhaps because of this, every time I click on “DVD Play” in Ifoedit to determine needed tiles for ripping, the application crashes after a few seconds of playing the DVD. Hence, I have to guess at which titles I need to rip and am rarely correct in my assumption, especially if I want to keep the DVD menus, etc. Is there another way to perform this task without or with using Ifoedit? Thanks in advance.

[Jazz]

You can also analyse the structure and decide what you want to keep using VOBRator. One of the usual guides tells how - I think it's the DVD rip basic guide on vcdhelp.com, but I'm not sure and too lazy to check.

[snidely]

VOBrator crashes constantly on my machine. I am using IfoEdit under XP with no issues, so I don't know why it is giving you a hard time, unless you have decoders from several software DVD players installed. As an alternative, I load the .VOBs into DVD2AVI and then preview (F5) the movie. After a few seconds, hit escape to stop the preview, and then use the mouse to move the slider from the beginning to the end of the film. Watch the VOB/Cell ID boxes on the right side, and you will find out which VOB IDs are used for the film.