dvd to mpg plugin

[Jeff]

Yes; that was why the plug-in was created.

Jeff

[shodap]

Great. Thanks.

[Marty]

I have just installed and configured the new video archive plug in - great piece of work!
I think I have everything configured ok, however when I tried to convert my star wars DVD, only the small 20th century fox "intro" file was ripped and converted, then my DVD was unloaded from the drive.
The config info in the DV to MPEGS Tab is as follows:


DVD to MPEGS Command Line Tab

DVDDECRYPTOR Command line

/MODE IFO /SRC {dvdDrive} /VTS 1 /PGC 1 /DEMUX 0xE0 0x80 0xA0 {AudioStreamIdentifier} /DEST "{tempDir}" /SPLIT NONE /START /OVERWRITE YES /CLOSE


It looked like dvddecrypter was set to load VTS_01 so I changed /VTS 1/ to /VTS 4/ in the command line so that it would immediately start to decrypt VTS_04 which is the main star wars movie.

Do I need to set the number for /VTS in config to the corresponding number of the movie VTS file everytime I want to convert a movie? I dont mind. I just need to know if I am missing something here or I'am doing something wrong!
At the moment I'am just waiting on DVDdecryptor finishing ripping VTS_04 and I'll see if it converts it to an mpeg ok.

I've just had dvddecryptor bomb out at 66% complete, with the error message that there isnt enough disk space!
Something's wrong - I have a new 250gb drive which has hardly been used - I have 232gb free!
I've checked to make sure the path to the temp file is on this drive and it is! Help!!

Martin

[Jeff]

I don't know why it would be out of space. as to the other question, someone suggested configuring DVDDecrypter to always select the main movie and then just removing the /VTS /PCG items from the command line.

Jeff

[Marty]

Thanks Jeff, I removed /VTS and /PCG from command line and set dvddecryptor to always select the main movie, so now dvddecryptor always starts with the main movie file.

However I still get the "out of space" error message when I get to about 71% complete and everything bombs out.If I run dvddecryptor on its own it runs fine and transfers the whole movie to disk. I only get this error when I run DVDtoMPEG. As I said in my previous post I have a 250 GB drive which has over 211 gb free space. If there a config setting I can adjust to help resolve this problem? Any help would be appreciated!!

[Marty]

I think I may know the reason for dvddecryptor bombing out at 71%.
My 250 GB hard drive is formatted as FAT32. Unfortunately the largest file size Fat32 can hold is 4GB! So ... I am copying my music files back off the disk temporarily and will re-format my disk to NTFS format then copy my files back. I know I could just convert to NTFS from FAT32 but a reformat will better. I'll let you know how I get on.

[Marty]

Reformatting of my main disk to NTFS has solved the problem I had with dvddecrypter bombing out at 71% complete. Now that parts works fine. The rest of the conversion process seems to go (an mpeg file is created) however I do get an error code when it finishes. The mpeg file plays back with crackin quality via MVP, only one problem its only 45 minutes long!
I've found that for each DVD I converted the mpeg file is exactly the same size ( approx 2gb) . Anyone know whats causing this and what I can do to fix it? I ave checked the forums but cant see anything that relates to this problem.

[Marty]

I used mplex at the command prompt and now have the whole movie albeit in 3 seperate movie files.
I found that if I specify the output file with "%d" in the filename (within the command line string) I can get mplex to run to the end, otherwise I would get the "%d" error and mplex would stop after the first file.
(I tried running restream to remove the end of sequence markers within the main video file before I ran mplex, but I still end up with 3 separate files. Sound and video are in sync for all three files.)

As an example, I ran the DVD "war of the worlds" through the DVDTOMPEG process and as usual it bombed out after mplex created the first file.
I then ran mplex manually making sure I had included "%d" in the output file filename. Now I have the whole of the war of worlds dvd in three seperate mpeg files. It looks like there is a bug somewhere....

Now I'am looking for some software to join these three files together...any suggestions anyone!