Hi, I hope this isn't answered somewhere else. I searched a few of the forums and couldn't find anything.
Here's my problem. I'm using DVD Shrink to re-author my personal dvds I own and have ripped using DVD Decrypter. I'm re-authoring to get the main movie from the folder where DVD Decrypter ripped a full DVD. The end result is a movie that looks just fine, except it'll say the entire movie is only 7 minutes long or 4 minutes long or something like that instead of 1 hour and 30 minutes, etc.
My intention is to only have the main movie with one large VOB file that I might possibly convert to a .h264 file in the future.
Here's what I've done so far.
1) Ripped the entire DVD with DVD Decrypter, leaving the folder structure intact and making no changes.
2) Re-authored with DVD Shrink to throw away everything except the main movie. I don't need menus or deleted scenes or trailers or any of that. I did keep some other audio tracks though.
For a couple movies everything seems to work fine. If I open the VIDEO_TS folder in Nero Showtime the movie will play fine and show the time for an entire movie. I can hit the "next chapter" button like 10 times and after that it doesn't work anymore. If I scrub to later parts in the movie there's an error and the movie just crashes. What seems to work better is just opening the VOB file. Then I'm able to scrub around to different parts in the movie. The chapters still don't really work after about 10, but at least the movie won't crash when I'm trying to get to a spot I want to see.
What I'm really concerned about is that a few movies don't display the correct time. They say the entire movie is only like 5 minutes long. Opening the VIDEO_TS works, but the movie crashes pretty easily when trying to fast forward. Opening the VOB file works better for these ones also since I can scrub to later in the movie without having it crash. "seek to time" won't work though since the length of the movie is all messed up.
So basically, the whole movie is there... but all I can do is watch it straight through, fast forward, and pause. I can't just jump to certain spots on theses ones that are messed up cuz the time is all weird.
I just don't want to waste any more time re-authoring any more of them until I can figure out what's up and fix it. If I was converting the VOBs to MP4/h.264 right away then it might not matter, but I'm not sure if I'm even going to do that for awhile.
Also, I would just use DVDFab Decrypter to rip just the main movie to begin with, but that breaks the VOB file into 1 GB individual VOBs. I want one big VOB so that I can convert it to .h264 in a couple months once I've finished this project. So that's why I've got to use DVD Shrink even though I'm not doing any compressing. It lets you turn off VOB splitting into 1 GB chunks.
I hope I've identified my problem well and someone knows why the main movie time seems all crazy (and will crash if played by opening up the VIDEO_TS folder). Sorry this is so long. I've been playing with this stuff all day and I think I might be delirious. Thanks!
just rip with shrink and thain reauther with shrink and thain burn with Nero, nice and easy, newer movie you might use ripit4me also you might get dvd region + css free or AnyDVD to bypas the copy protection, or clone dvd will also work, you should not make thing harder thain they need to be , good luck happy burning have a nice day
Thank you rdmercer1. I'll definitely be ripping them with just the main movie in the future now. I definitely don't wanna make things harder than they need to be. I don't even want to burn them to DVD; just wanna re-author to leave just the main movie from stuff I already ripped a good while ago so I can have 'em on my computer.
I was just hoping that someone would know what's up with the time being all messed up and the movie just crashing when I scrub to the end. I don't want that to mess up my converting them to h.264 a few months down the road.
Since I can't even really use the movie at all when I open up the VIDEO_TS folder the way I normally watch DVDs, I guess I'll always have to open the VOB file just so the movie won't crash and I can fast forward and stuff.
Doesn't really seem like this is right but if it doesn't seem like a big deal to anyone else I guess I won't worry about it too much. It'll suck for watching DVDs but if it'll be OK later when I try and convert the VOB to h.264 it'll all be cool.
Just a quick note. In DVDShrink you can go to Preferences-> Output File and untick Split VOB files into 1GB chunks, you will then end up with one large VOB to work with.
