How to watch a movie that is ripped on my hard drive ?

[iparout]

Hi.

I rented Red Dragon DVD yesterday and was planning to watch it today but unfortunately I didn't have the time. I have to return the DVD tomorrow so I ripped the movie onto my hard drive in order to watch it after I return the DVD. However, when I open the vobs with PowerDVD, although the movie and the sound are correct, I cannot turn subtitles on (the option is greyed-out in PowerDVD). What can I do in order to be able to view the subs as well ?

Thanks in advance.

[madoka]

Try DVDDecrypter and DaemonTools.

[ultimatebilly]

If you haven't just ripped the main movie, you can set Powerdvd to "open dvd on harddisk" and open the second ifo (not the video_ts.ifo one). Powerdvd will then behave like you were opening the dvd in your drive... (Powerdvd needs the information in the ifo to display the subtitles!!)

Try DVDDecrypter and DaemonTools.
You have to use DVDDecrypters Iso-Mode here of course...
You will then be able to create a virtual DVD-Drive with daemon-tools...

I always rip the whole movie (files->all files or backup in smartripper, file->all files or Iso-mode in dvddecrypter), if there is the slightest chance I would like to watch the movie from my hd...

PS.: Recently I had problems playing a movie from a virtual drive with PowerDVD, although WinDVD worked...
Powerdvd sometimes just hanged when I tried to jump somewhere via a button or a command in PowerDVD...
If you encounter this, and don't have or want to use WinDVD, then you can just rerip the virtual DVD to a folder and use Powerdvds play movie from hd-mode...(You should even be able to just copy them somewhere, because they aren't CSS-protected anymore...)

[iparout]

Unfortunately, I have only ripped the movie onto my HDD and not the whole DVD. WHat can I do now ?

[ultimatebilly]

You have to re-rip it...
Thats the only way I'm afraid...

[iparout]

Originally posted by ultimatebilly
You have to re-rip it...
Thats the only way I'm afraid...

I don't have the DVD anymore unfortunately. I guess I'll just encode it to DIvX and watch it with subtitles. Thanks for your help.

[ultimatebilly]

If you're able to extract the subtitles, then you could just reauthor the dvd in an authoring application...
You just have to demux the m2v and the ac3 from the vobs, rip the subtitles to a format supported by your authoring program, and create a DVD from it (without the menues and all, just the movie).
But I don't know if you're able to extract the subs without the ifo-file...
I'm at work at the moment, so I cannot check...
But if you're able to (maybe using subrip), you should try this first (if you have an authoring program), since it will take much less time than creating a Divx from the dvd...

[iparout]

I can extract the subs, however I find it very complicated to try new things. Anyways, DivX encoding for a movie takes around 3 hours so it's not much of a hassle. Thanks nontheless.

[ultimatebilly]

Well, here is anyway how you could do it...
Use vobedit to extract the m2v-video stream from the vob (make sure to select "demux whole vts")...
Also extract the subtitle-stream...
Fire up dvd2avi, and demux the ac3-streams from the vobs...
This will give you the delay you will need later.
Now fire up ifoedit, select author, and create new DVD...
Open all your assets, and don't forget to assert the delay to the audio...
When it is finished, you can open it in Powerdvd (using open DVD on harddisk), and you will see that your subs have the wrong color and are ugly...
Because you don't have the original ifo you can't get the color-codes from it, but you can take almost every other ifo, because the color-mapping is mostly the same...
To do so, select any .ifo in ifoedit (if you have an unencrypted DVD, maybe DVD-R, you can select the vts_1_0.ifo directly from the disk), select the first PGC in the tree view of ifoedit (upper half), and select copy color codes...
Now open your .ifo which you created in ifoedit, select the movie PGC, and paste the color information into it...
Save, open in Powerdvd and view
:D
If you haven't started the divx-conversion yet, give this method a try...
I tested it with a vob I had on my hd, and it worked very nice!
Of course you won't have any menus, but you can switch audio and subtitle tracks via the menu in Powerdvd...

PS.: If I remember correctly, then the authoring with ifoedit only works for PAL-projects at the moment...
But Greece is a PAL-country, isn't it?