Jurassic park 3 - PGC or VOBid

[Ganglion5]

I am stuck at backing up jurassic park 3 using scenarist. I used dif4u to rip via PGC. I then authored using scenarist. It plays fine on my WinDVD, but when I tried to burn it using REcordNow, it wouldn't copy. Usually, this means there's something wrong with the structure of my authoring. I'm wondering if I should've done it via VOB-ids instead of PGC's. I noticed that in the main movie VTS, there are 3 extra PGC's that reference to the original movie's VOB ID's, but I read on the doom9 guide (the one that goes over when or when not to rip via VOB-ID) that I normally can rip via PGC under this circumstance. Does anyone have any suggestions before I redo the whole project via VOBid's?

[influenza]

I can't tell by your post what you should do exactly. Maybe you can post part of the ifo file, so we can analyse it?

[Ganglion5]

Thanks for responding. I found out what happened. I was careless and left out one of the VTS*_0.VOB file in the final folder. God, this carelessness drove me crazy for a few days trying reencode one time after another. Now I'm a lot more careful with missing files. Thanks again.

[influenza]

Good that you solved it!

Thee situation you are describing BTW multiple pgc all using the same unique vobid could be done by pgc (as you did now), but I would suggest to do it by vobid. Why? because of the space used.

example:
pgc1 uses vobid 1 and is 60 minutes long
pgc2 uses vobid 1, chapter x and is 5 minutes long
pgc3 uses vobid 1, chapter y and is 6 minutes long

If you do this by pgc you get 3 video streams, totalling 71 minutes.
If you do it by vobid and use parts og pgc1 the create pgc 2 and 3 your total length will only be 60 minutes and you'll save some valuable space.

[Ganglion5]

I guess you're right in terms of space conservation. However, isn't it cumbersome having to set up mult vob id's in scenarist, whereas if I just have one PGC, it's a one-file drag and drop. In addition, how exactly do you import subtitles that span all the different VOB's in the multiple-vob-id setup. (ie, last time I imported the subs, it only imported into VOB-id-1, and not the rest of the VOBiD's in the rest of the movie. I was planning to do a search on that, but if you can shed some light into that subject, I greatly appreciate it.

[influenza]

In this case with only one vobid it not very difficult. If you have about 60 vobids it's somewhat harder and takes more time.

About the subtitles if you use doitfast4u and rip by vobid, you'll get subtitles per vobid. You have to import the subtitles for all vobids seperately.