ILj
21st November 2002, 20:21
Hello gang,
I'll try to make this as short as I can. When trying to keep the original menus and file structure of a DVD in-tact (instead of reauthoring the menus) with a movie that needs to be transcoded I'm having some problems with playback. Here are my methods:
Step 1. Rip the entire DVD to the hdd with DVD Decrypter;
Step 2. Frame serve the main movie (demuxing the audio streams as well) with DVD2AVI and load the movie up in CCE.
Step 3. Encode with CCE (9 pass :) and pulldown resulting .mpv file.
Step 4. Use Scenarist to reauthor the main movie vob files according to the guide here at doom9.
Step 5. Use IFOUpdate to update the original IFO I ripped from disc with the reauthored IFO and auto-correct VTS sectors.
Step 6. This is where it gets kinda tricky. Load up all IFOs into IFOEdit. First I region free and remove p-ops for all of the ifos and save each one. Then, I delete the vob files for the extras I'm going to strip out, re-open the corresponding IFOs in IFOEdit and hit "delete playback" on each of the PGC streams deleting any video playback for that IFO.
Step 7. In my particular case I wanted to keep only audio tracks x80 and x82. I've found that if you strip out x81 with IFOEdit that it will put x82 in x81's slot and x82 (which is now x81) won't use the correct button in the menus. Therefore, I created a dummy x81 in scenarist when I reauthored. So now, in my updated IFO for the main movie I have x80, x81, and x82. I then open that IFO in IFOEdit and click on VTS_PGCITI at the top of IFOEdit and then click on PGC1. I then go down to where it says Audio stream 2 status (x81) and double click on that line. I then replace the address it has listed for audio stream 2 (x81) with a 0 which effectively "deletes playback" on x81 while keeping x80 and x82 in place so they link up correctly with the menus. I then save the IFO.
Step 8. After all of that I hit "get VTS sectors" in IFOEdit. I find it interesting that after I get VTS sectors in IFOEdit if I go back to IFOUpdate and just do a correct vts sectors (not an update) it gives me different pointer numbers than IFOEdit does. Anyway, I stick with IFOEdit's numbers. I then try the project in PowerDVD. Everything loads up fine, all of the extras that were deleted just link back to the main menu, the audio tracks all select and play correctly, as do the main movie chapter selects and extras that I've kept. No problems what-so-ever. Then I burn the disc. I create an .img file and then burn with Record Now Max. After the disc burns I try it in my Apex DVD player. No problems at all. However, I then try it in my PS2 and it reads the disc as a DVD-Video but then tells me that it is "Unable to read disc." Now, you might say that the PS2 isn't a real DVD player and it is very picky. However, every copied disc that I've totally reauthored (menus and all) has worked in it and every "scene release" dvd-r that I've tried has worked in it, and I know that the "scene releases" use the original menus, not reauthored.
So, if you've stuck around long enough to get this far, what am I doing wrong? If anyone has any input it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading. :)
I'll try to make this as short as I can. When trying to keep the original menus and file structure of a DVD in-tact (instead of reauthoring the menus) with a movie that needs to be transcoded I'm having some problems with playback. Here are my methods:
Step 1. Rip the entire DVD to the hdd with DVD Decrypter;
Step 2. Frame serve the main movie (demuxing the audio streams as well) with DVD2AVI and load the movie up in CCE.
Step 3. Encode with CCE (9 pass :) and pulldown resulting .mpv file.
Step 4. Use Scenarist to reauthor the main movie vob files according to the guide here at doom9.
Step 5. Use IFOUpdate to update the original IFO I ripped from disc with the reauthored IFO and auto-correct VTS sectors.
Step 6. This is where it gets kinda tricky. Load up all IFOs into IFOEdit. First I region free and remove p-ops for all of the ifos and save each one. Then, I delete the vob files for the extras I'm going to strip out, re-open the corresponding IFOs in IFOEdit and hit "delete playback" on each of the PGC streams deleting any video playback for that IFO.
Step 7. In my particular case I wanted to keep only audio tracks x80 and x82. I've found that if you strip out x81 with IFOEdit that it will put x82 in x81's slot and x82 (which is now x81) won't use the correct button in the menus. Therefore, I created a dummy x81 in scenarist when I reauthored. So now, in my updated IFO for the main movie I have x80, x81, and x82. I then open that IFO in IFOEdit and click on VTS_PGCITI at the top of IFOEdit and then click on PGC1. I then go down to where it says Audio stream 2 status (x81) and double click on that line. I then replace the address it has listed for audio stream 2 (x81) with a 0 which effectively "deletes playback" on x81 while keeping x80 and x82 in place so they link up correctly with the menus. I then save the IFO.
Step 8. After all of that I hit "get VTS sectors" in IFOEdit. I find it interesting that after I get VTS sectors in IFOEdit if I go back to IFOUpdate and just do a correct vts sectors (not an update) it gives me different pointer numbers than IFOEdit does. Anyway, I stick with IFOEdit's numbers. I then try the project in PowerDVD. Everything loads up fine, all of the extras that were deleted just link back to the main menu, the audio tracks all select and play correctly, as do the main movie chapter selects and extras that I've kept. No problems what-so-ever. Then I burn the disc. I create an .img file and then burn with Record Now Max. After the disc burns I try it in my Apex DVD player. No problems at all. However, I then try it in my PS2 and it reads the disc as a DVD-Video but then tells me that it is "Unable to read disc." Now, you might say that the PS2 isn't a real DVD player and it is very picky. However, every copied disc that I've totally reauthored (menus and all) has worked in it and every "scene release" dvd-r that I've tried has worked in it, and I know that the "scene releases" use the original menus, not reauthored.
So, if you've stuck around long enough to get this far, what am I doing wrong? If anyone has any input it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading. :)