Multi-episode DVD question

[Guorilla]

Hi all,

Somewhat of a newbie question here, at least I'm new to DVD2SVCD. I have looked at the FAQs, but didn't see a specific mention of my situation. If this in there I apologise. I am trying to make SVCDs from the DVD set of the "24" series. It's 4 episodes per disc, spread over 8 VOBs, but the episodes run over between VOB files. When I load the IFO with DVD2SVCD, I can choose the various movie lengths from the drop-down menu (the various episodes), but the audio seems to be all one big track. I told it to "Go" and hoped for the best, but it gave me one MPG file per vob, with the sound asynch'd and choppy video at times. Is this related to the size of the audio track? Is there anything I can do about it? I had thought about splitting the VOBs into episode-size chunks, but I am under the impression that DVD2SVCD needs an IFO, is this correct?

In my genius I appear to have deleted my log files, but I don't figure they'd be much help, it's not as if anything crashed.
I am running an athlon XP 2000+, 512 MB DDR333 SDRAM, WinXP Pro, and I was using CCE 2.5 to encode.

Cheers,
G

[idbirch2]

Use DVD Decrypter to rip the VOBs into individual episodes (it will also rip the required IFO) - you can then feed them through DVD2SVCD and it will convert only that episode.

Get DVD Decrytpter here (http://www.dvddecrypter.com/download.asp)

Open it up, click Mode -> IFO and just tick a single PGC, uncheck everything else. Repeat for all episodes.

[markrb]

Be careful with DVD Decrypter as it is the biggest offender of problem rips when used with DVD2SVCD. I don't know why this is the case. Problem rips is the only reason we don't support outside rippers.
Your best bet if using the rippers included with DVD2SVCD fail is to try SmartRipper first and if that fails as a last resort try DVD Decrypter.

Always pipe it through DVD2SVCD's internal routines before you convert it no matter what ripper you use though. Basically you will be ripping the already ripped VOB's off the hard drive into another directory and then use those for the conversion. It sets up the VOB's in a better way for DVD2SVCD. Sometimes external rippers don't remove FBI logo's and such first and when you pipe it through DVD2SVCD those will be removed.

BTW I am not ANTI DVD Decrypter. As a matter of fact it's now my favorite ripper when making encodes outside of DVD2SVCD.

Mark