DVD2MPEG - Multiple Output files

[Guy]

Hi Jeff / Anyone,

This is a great plug-in. Works swimmingly well! Just ripped three DVDs perfectly immediately after installing. Have just ripped another very long DVD & I'm getting an error from the mplex component, when it is about half way through re-muxing.

The error says something along the lines of: "output file cannot be split, filename has no %d for {path/filename of output file}"

Mplex seems to be trying to split the output file into two or more files for very large DVDs (the .m2v video file for this DVD has a total size of 4.7gig).

Anyway, running mplex from the command line, but actually putting "%d" within the output file name works fine & mplex re-muxes everything and creates multiple .mpg files, replacing %d with 1, 2, 3, etc in the output files.

But, as you can't control the filename of the output within DVD2MPEG (can you?), I can't use the plug in for large DVD's. I'm wondering whether you/anyone knows of anyway of forcing mplex not to split output files? Or, if there is anyway of specifying %d within the command parameters DVD2MPEG sends to mplex?

Thanks in advance for your help.


BTW - cracking software. I thought at first that there wasn't much point in spending time ripping DVDs just to get them hogging space on a hard drive. That was until my better half and I were able watch a DVD film on the MVP in bed & our daughter could watch the Incredibles on the MVP in the playroom......now just worried that our DVD player and Hi Fi are completely redundant with the GBPVR / MVP combo...

cheers

g.

[Jeff]

Hmm. I have ripped DVDs that ended up being over 6GB when converted and mplex didn;t try to split them into multiple disks. I know that DVDDecrypter will do this by default. I have gone in to DVDDecrypter and configured the options to be split = "None". I don;t know if this is the source of your problem, but you might give it a try.

Jeff

[Guy]

Thanks Jeff,

I'll give this a try, though dvddecrypter is not actually splitting the video up (the big dvd produced a single .m2v video file and single .mp2 audio file, it was just mplex that was splitting it up). Could be putting in chapter marks or something?

Looking in the config for decrypter, it was indeed set for 1gb file size, so I've unchecked this and will see what happens,

cheers,

guy

[Pioneer4x4]

Is there a way to do a DVD2mpeg of a folder structure on my hard drive? I can't figure out how to manually. I really don't want to burn them to a disk just to revert to mpeg again. The dvd folders are mpeg2 audio and video orginally. Is there an eaiser way?