abyss questions

[wellyman]

Hello All:

I have read all the posts regarding this movie. I have the special edition, which contains both the theatrical and the extended. I believe its the R1 version. I know this is a seamless branching disk, and I have also read that it's possible to fit one of them onto a dvd-r disk without re-encoding. When I go to ifoedit, and click on 'remove seamless br., there are 4 pgcs to choose from. 1 and 3 are both 2:50 mins, and 2 and 4 are 2:25 minutes. First, I don't know why there are 4 pgcs with only 2 versions. Second, even if I choose the shorter one, and only keep the 2 ch. audio track, it still is ~400 MB over the limit. All the original vobs, which seem to contain both versions, and all audio, is only 7.26 GB. Shouldn't one track be around half this? Is ifoedit not removing one complete video track? Any help is greatly appreciated.

[wellyman]

Doesn't this make sense to anyone? Any help please!!

[stevemorales27]

Why don't you trip to Rip the Movie using Smartripper and then after you Have the *.m2v (Movie File) and *.ac3 (Audio File) try using IFOEdit to multiplex them, i haven't tried to rip this movie, but remember that if the movie file is larger than 3.7Gb you should re-encode it, hope this helps.

[wellyman]

Originally posted by stevemorales27
Why don't you trip to Rip the Movie using Smartripper and then after you Have the *.m2v (Movie File) and *.ac3 (Audio File) try using IFOEdit to multiplex them, i haven't tried to rip this movie, but remember that if the movie file is larger than 3.7Gb you should re-encode it, hope this helps.

thanks for replying:

this is a seamless branching movie. I don't think you can do this. There seem to be 4 versions of the movie, theatrical and extended, and combined in the same vob set. I've ripped over 75 movies, and this is the first one to use seamless branching.

[mpucoder]

Seamless branching can have content common to 2 or more versions. The way to see this is with IfoEdit, and look at the VobIDs used by each PGC.