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Extracting chapters (titles) from a DVD
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netarc
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17. November 2006 @ 12:33 |
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I have a collection of episodic DVDs (sitcoms, Looney Tunes Golden Collection, etc) that I'd like to rip to HD and split into individual movie files, so that each "episode" can be started individually (e.g., via "videos" feature of Win Media Center). I've already ripped a handful (via DVDecrypter, some in "file" mode and some in ISO).
It seemed easy enough to open up the ripped content in DVDShrink, and use its reauthoring mode; but I'm having a hard time figuring out the structure of one of the discs ... here's a snapshot of the DVD opened in DVDShrink in "full" mode:
As you can see, the bulk of the movie appears to be in "Title 1-19" ... but there seems to be no way to access these individually here, so I switched to "Re-author" mode:
Here the individual chapters are accessible, and indeed viewing titles 2-16 in the preview window confirms that each is a discrete cartoon episode.
However, I'm at a loss when it comes to some of the other titles - again using the preview window, I confirmed that:
Title 1 contains all episodes
Titles 2 - 16 are individual episodes
Titles 17, 18 & 19 are repeats of 2-16, containing 3-5 episodes each??
I figure "title 1" is probably an alias, pointing to (it wouldn't be actual duplicated content would it??), but what would 17, 18 & 19 be; more peculiar, 17 doesn't contain consecutive episodes - for instance, iirc it contains titles 5, 11, 13 & 15.
Is anyone familiar with this type of duplicated structure, if so please advise ... I figure all I really need to pull from the structure is titles 2-16, but I'm perplexed by the addt'l duplicated titles.
Finally, what's the best way to save each title to individual VOB files? I suppose I could "author" 15 individual DVDs, saving each to its own folder, and then pull out and rename the VOBs to a standard filename format (changing extension to .mpeg to play in WMP), but I was hoping there was some way I could author a single DVD and force DVDShrink to write each episode to a discrete VOB file.
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17. November 2006 @ 14:32 |
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This one is a little over my head but I'll take a stab at it...you are showing a screen shot of an ISO file. You state that this particular disc is the only one that you've had this problem with and I assume that since you've ripped in both ISO mode and File mode that the ones you haven't had problems with were in a VIDO_TS folder with the individual VOBS already laid out for you. My suggestion would be to rerip in file mode and continue as you did with the other titles. While an ISO file and VIDEO_TS folder contain all the same information...it might be that the ISO file, when putting all of your IFO, BUP and VOB into one tidy little package, doesn't allow you to manipulate the individual files in the way you are wanting to.
My two cents.
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netarc
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17. November 2006 @ 22:09 |
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I'd already ripped this particular disc in various ways - at first in FILE mode, then IFO and finally ISO. DVDShrink was unable to open the IFO-type rip (likely because I only ripped the first PGC), but it had no problem opening either the ISO or FILE-based rips; in both cases, it showed exactly the same content as you see in my screenshot.
To clarify, DVDShrink's not really having a problem accessing any of these rips ... I was just confused why the content appeared to be duplicated several times over in various portions of the DVD.
The main thing I was hoping to get recommendations on is the best method to use DVDShrink to make a backup copy/folder of the DVD, while still allowing for the DVDShrink output to be such that there is one VOB file per episode. Sorry, that probably didn't make sense, let me elaborate - here's what I'm hoping to do...
1) Use DVDDecrypt to make a FILE or ISO rip of the DVD (w/PUOs removed)
2) Open the rip file or ISO in DVDShrink; ideally, use the FULL DISC mode to another rip (w/warning screens, extras, etc pruned via "stills)
3) Configure DVDShrink so that each title is written to a discrete VOB file ... this way each episode can later be pulled by runnig VOB2MPG, for those favorite or most frequently used episodes, and accessed directly.
I'm not sure if #3 is possible - that's what I'd like to find out, or an alternative approach that would allow for something similar?
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