IFO files and AutoGK? Help.

[Two_K_Si]

I am trying to rip the contents of a DVD to my computer so that i can convert the movie into a 700 mb avi file. Here is the problem, I have no problems ripping the DVD in IFO mode, but when i load the video_ts folder in AutoGK i get an "error parsing input directory. Make sure you used dvddecrypter in IFO mode to rip a dvd". The thing is i do use IFO mode I do not know if it is a problem with dvddecrypter or autoGk, but any help would be greatly apperciated. thanks.

[len0x]

Please post content of the input directory (i.e. file names you have there)

[Two_K_Si]

Originally posted by len0x
Please post content of the input directory (i.e. file names you have there)

Ok, here are the contents of the video_ts folder (input)
VTS_01_0
VTS_01_PGC_01 - Stream Information
VTS_01_PGC_01_1.VOB
VTS_01_PGC_01_2.VOB
VTS_01_PGC_01_3.VOB
VTS_01_PGC_01_4.VOB
VTS_01_PGC_01_5.VOB

[len0x]

I assume first file has IFO extension and second - TXT?

Can you post the contents of txt file please.

[Two_K_Si]

yes, the first file has an IFO extension. here is the contents of the TXT file:

0x80 - Audio - AC3 / 2ch / 48kHz / DRC / Unknown (' ') / LBA: 12 / PTS: 00:00:00.300 / Delay: 0ms
0xE0 - Video - MPEG-2 / 720x480 (NTSC) / 4:3 / LBA: 1 / PTS: 00:00:00.300 / Delay: 0ms

[ukb007]

Hi Two_K_Si.

I use the version of the DVDDecrypter recommended for the version of AGK I am using, and rip the VOBs in a folder I name 'RippedVOBs' - you can, of course, use any name, including Video_ts, in the hard disk.

There is another Video_ts folder in the DVD in your DVD drive. You have to be careful not to point that out to AGK as the input directory.

Read manono's tutorial included in the AGK installation. There's no way you can go wrong.

Regards.

[Two_K_Si]

Well let me first say that this is not the first time converting dvd's to avi files using autoGK. I have converted 10+ movies with no problems. It is just this dvd that is giving me problems. Are there any other ways to convert a dvd to a 700 mb avi file using other programs? Thanks

[len0x]

can you zip up ifo and txt files and make it available for me please ?

[Two_K_Si]

Can i email you the zip file? If you do not want to give out your email, then email me a blank message to two_k_si@hotmail.com. Thank you very much for your help:)

[len0x]

@Two_K_Si

check your PM please

[Two_K_Si]

You've got mail:)

[ukb007]

This had happened to me once. My AGK 1.25b persistently refused to parse the first of my six vobs made from a concert, and coolly went on to give me an output from the five remaining ones, without any fuss. It was as if the first vob didn't exist at all. The DVD2AVIdg window showed the first frame as the first frame of my second vob.

So I manually made a .d2v file with the DVD2AVI that my GK 0.28.8 uses (there was no problem doing this) and proceeded to use GK for the rest. The output was perfect.

It'd be interesting, now with AGK 1.30+, to see what happens with the same vobfile. And if the problem persists, then whether a .d2v file can be generated manually with the DGIndex.exe that AGK 1.30+ uses. Unfortunately I do not have the DVD of the concert now. But, Two_K_Si, you may see if you can make a .d2v with your DGIndex (if you are using version 1.30+); if you can, then your problem is solved and you can let AGK work on the .d2v for a perfect output..

But, of course, I'd be most interested to learn why this problem would happen.

Regards.

[len0x]

AutoGK doesn't parse VOB files at all! It just supplies them to DGIndex. Error parsing directory is due to inability to parse/find stream info file produced by DVDDecrypter.

@Two_K_Si
I found the problem with your stream info file, which I do not know how to solve though. "Unknown (' ')" string contains two 0x00 characters in between single commas. So component which loads this file into memory just stops reading file after that and obviously this result in error. I think its worth reporting this to Decrypting forum as this file cannot be read in text mode at all...

*Edit* of course you can edit this file and remove everything apart from "Unknown" and it should work just fine.

[ukb007]

I'd very much like to see the errant Stream Info file.

How does one examine such a file? I have no doubt it will be instructive to everyone interested in trying to troubleshoot one's own problems.

Regards.

[len0x]

Originally posted by ukb007
How does one examine such a file?

You need hex editor/viewer for that...

[Two_K_Si]

Well, i edited the txt file like len0x advised, and it worked:) Thank you very much for the help. Could this be some sort of copy protection maybe?

[ukb007]

* Two_K_Si...

Editing your VTS_01_PGC_01 - Stream Information.txt file has solved your problem? Regarding this len0x wrote:

I found the problem with your stream info file, which I do not know how to solve though.
*Edit* of course you can edit this file and remove everything apart from "Unknown" and it should work just fine.

So the contents of your Stream Info file became this after you have removed everything apart from "Unknown", has it?:

Unknown

Can you please confirm this for me?

And it is unclear why this should work because I always thought that AGK had used the .ifo file. Well, I thought wrong.

* len0x...

Sorry, my question wasn't right. The Stream Info is a .txt file, and one can edit it with notepad. Actually I had asked about the .ifo file. I take it one needs the hex editor/viewer for that? I am shaken. How much there is to learn, and how little time...

Lots of regards, guys.

[Two_K_Si]

Yes, all i did was edit the txt file. Here is the original:
0x80 - Audio - AC3 / 2ch / 48kHz / DRC / Unknown (' ') / LBA: 12 / PTS: 00:00:00.300 / Delay: 0ms
0xE0 - Video - MPEG-2 / 720x480 (NTSC) / 4:3 / LBA: 1 / PTS: 00:00:00.300 / Delay: 0ms

And here is the modified:
0x80 - Audio - AC3 / 2ch / 48kHz / DRC / Unknown / LBA: 12 / PTS: 00:00:00.300 / Delay: 0ms
0xE0 - Video - MPEG-2 / 720x480 (NTSC) / 4:3 / LBA: 1 / PTS: 00:00:00.300 / Delay: 0ms

Compare both "unkown" parts. The avi file came out perfect, no problems whatsoever:) I did not edit everything and just leave "unkown". I dont know if i did what len0x suggested, but it worked.

[ukb007]

You're now an expert at this, Two_K_Si.

While processing one of my DVDs, of the five vobs, AGK (the first program launched - DGIndex.exe) persistently refused to accept the first three, and proceeded to make the .d2v file from the last two vobs. I then used the same DGIndex.exe separately, - the .d2v came out OK - and let AGK use that. The avi came out perfect.

Evidently AGK wasn't supplying the first three vobs to DGIndex.exe for it to Demux and Index. Beats me why that would happen.

Regards.

[len0x]

Originally posted by ukb007
Evidently AGK wasn't supplying the first three vobs to DGIndex.exe for it to Demux and Index. Beats me why that would happen.


AutoGK uses "auto-add" feature of DGIndex. Did you use it or added files one by one manually to DGIndex ?

P.S. It has nothing to do with stream info file.

[ukb007]

Hi

Yes, I used the auto-add feature of DGIndex.exe…

I have processed two DVDs this week – in both cases AGK 1.30b refused the first three VOB files (ripped with DVDDecrypter v 3.2.2.0 in IFO mode). The first DVD had five – the final avi was made from the last two; the second one had four – the avi was made from the last one.

So I opened the vobs of both my DVDs in DGIndex.exe from my AGK folder independently, using the auto-add feature. The .d2v files came out okay, and so did the finished .avi files after AGK was done.

I’d sure like to know why. These current experiences are giving me a nasty queasiness in the pit of my stomach. Where is the problem?

Regards.

[len0x]

I'd try 1.41 first, then if problem persist consistently on the same source - I'd like to have that source. Are you UK based by any chance?
If yes and you have DVD burner, then I'll PM you with an address to post this stuff (if you like this to be solved of course :) )

[ukb007]

Alas, I am not UK based.

These are almost definitely authoring-related issues. Yesterday I came across a DVD which had 4 VOBs for the main movie with usual file-sizes (1+1+1+0.375), but the DVDDecrypter in IFO mode discovered 5 program chains, each about 30 minutes' duration. Ripping them individually gave rise to 5 VTS_0x_1.vob files, each with file-sizes between 550 and 850 MBs. So I renamed them sequentially, put them in one folder, and used AGK for an excellent output...

A program can not accommodate all kinds of authoring discrepancies because there's no end to the varieties of such discrepancies. I believe, the rate at which AGK is developing, it will continue to possess more and more features and more and more possibilities to control its various aspects (like already there's control for the end-credits, the output AR, cartoons etc).

I'll, of course, continue to draw attention of everybody browsing these fora to all kinds of irregularities I find so that these can be dealt with at the individual level with the existing AGK versions, and applying the little grey cells that we all have. I am yet to come across a DVD that DVDDecrypter and AGK together can't decimate.

Regards.