Spliting chapters and rearrange

[eibwen]

My problem:
I have a DVD from a TV series that has 10 seemingly random episodes from the series, which are put on the dvd out of order (mostly because its not a series that has a plotline going between episodes: Aeon Flux)
Well i got the idea to rip the dvd, download the rest of the episodes which are only avaliable on VHS, and author my own dvd's with ALL the episodes, in order

What i tried: (feel free to skip down to what i need, this is so someone won't suggest it...)
Using DVDDecrypter to rip the dvd in filemode spliting the vob's at Cell ID's (each episode seemed to have a different Cell ID)
-I think this is what caused my problem, but not sure how else to split by chaper/cell id
So my problem now is that programs don't like to demux these vob's, and i don't want to reencode the MPEG2 stream which is fine how it is.
Only program i've been able to demux both audio and video with is TMPGEnc, but the resulting m2v and ac3's were not liked by ReelDVD or MediaPlayerClassic (MPC would freeze when i tried to open one by double clicking, but would play if i went File>Open :confused: )


I need:
to split the vob's on the dvd by each chapter/cell id, and not cause any a/v sync problems.
Get them to elementry streams, so that ReelDVD can take them

Thanks

[influenza]

I would suggest using doitfast4u to demux your dvd to the elementary streams. You can use this program to demux to pgc/vobid/cell, whatever your needs are. From there on you can move along to encoding and authoring with your favorite authoring app.

[eibwen]

Do i have to rip it off the dvd for DoItFast to demux it too?
I had it ripped on my harddrive, so i just did HDD Demux and checked Demux by: Cell ID
but all it did was split the Vob's up JUST like dvd decrypter had done, which when demuxed with TMPGEnc it had many problems with the streams or something (didn't freeze MPC this time, but played way fast then slowed down, then went fast again)

Well how about a program that will just split ac3 files very accuratly?
and i'll just encode the whole thing, and split them afterwards

is TMPGEnc's cutting abilty good?
(i would encode to a mpg stream file, then the MPEG Tools, and cut it at all the chapter points, would that screw up sync?)

[manono]

Hi-

I may not be understanding the problem correctly, but did you try DVDDecrypter in IFO Mode? You can go into Stream Processing and set it to demux the .m2v and .ac3. You can also set it to split it into episodes, chapters and/or cells.

[eibwen]

Yes thank you manono

I looked at the options before in DVD Decrypter in IFO Mode and saw the file splitting, but thought it only allowed the option of different sizes (i did already do it in file mode splitting by Cell ID) but it seems in ifo mode DVD Decrypter is working great (or so it worked fine with one of the later ID's, which i used as a small test)
well... don't you hate it when you overlook something that would have saved you a great deal of time...

but yes, demuxing both the video and audio in steam processing, and going to settings and splitting by Cell ID, seems to be EXACTALLY want i needed
thanks again

[influenza]

dif4u uses dvddecrypter too of course, but it makes live a bit easier.