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Pfandpirat
28th February 2003, 22:05
I already asked this question on the DVD2one/InstantCopy board, but the thread moved down and down with noone replying. Maybe the IfoEdit gurus don't read that board regularly...?

Well, what I tried to do was the following:

-ripping two DVDs (LOTR SEE, consists of 2 dics) to hard disc as elementary stream files

-authoring these files (1x m2v, 1x ac3, 1x sup and chapterlist each) with IfoEdit 0.96b1 (to generate one DVD from the previous two)

I corrected the vts sectors and gave the subtitles the correct color via the paste and copy method in IfoEdit.

Thus the new DVD files should be in a perfect state, as they played well in the software player (I did the same using a re-encoded video stream instead and it played well, too).

But that was only the first part.

Now I tried to use these authored files as the input for InstantCopy but it complained with "Corrupted DVD source file". I used the same source with DVD2one and it accepted the files and worked as it should.

So I conclude that InstantCopy hat some specific problems with the ifo files made by IfoEdit.

I used this method especially to remove all crap, since InstantCopy won't remove the menu and other stuff. I also wanted an equal basis for a comparison between several re-encoding/transcoding methods.

Furthermore I compared the ifo files made by DVD2one with the source files previously done with IfoEdit, but I found nothing that gave me a hint.

So, has anyone a clue what InstantCopy is exactly complaining about?

Pfandpirat
1st March 2003, 00:09
Fortunately I found out the reason myself. The vob set consisted of too many files. I think the VTS_01_10.VOB was one too many. I substituted the real ac3 stream through a dummy file, so that the vob set's last file was VTS_01_9.VOB. Then everything worked fine.

So I apologize for this superfluous thread.