Best way to rip a TV series DVD using DVD2SVCD

[Laz]

Trying to rip "Fawlty Towers", 6 episodes on one DVD, and convert to SVCD using DVD2SVCD.

Trouble is when using Smartripper it will only select the "first" episode and not rip the other files, what's the best way to be able to do all 6 ep's in one go?

TIA

 

[MurderOne]

the other vobs probably have the other episodes. rip them all using file mode instead of movie mode. movie mode only selects the first selection of vob files that it thinks contains the movie.

 

[Laz]

Thx m8.

Will have a go later.

 

[Laz]

Okie dokie, encoding in CCE as I type.

Also you would still have to manualy enter the other VOB files from the ripped DVD into DVD2SVCD in the conversion tab using the "..." button, is that correct?

Hope so cuz that's what I've done. lol

Seems to be taking a hell of a long time to encode though doing a 3 pass in CCE the time estimated is almost 9 hrs on a 1.8 Athlon.
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Yep, I got the settings right. lol

Just finished first disc, came out perfect. Thx

 

[ChickenMan]

Laz, you should be able to rip each Chapter out individually with Smartripper, but you must rip each to their own folder as each will have common VOB file names and will over write them.

Yes, you always need to use the [...] button to load the other remanding files in, normally except for the first or maybe second episode.

 

[Laz]

Thx CM, first TV series DVD I'd ever done. I ripped all the files to the same folder when I did it, then loaded the IFO file into DVD2SVCD and of course it only loaded the first VOB file, added the other 5 that contained the other eps manualy and all worked fine.

I am doing a couple of Father Ted discs over the holidays and will keep an eye out for what you said about seperate folders with Smartripper. Thx

 

[ChickenMan]

But the way you did it, you end up with all 6 eps encoded in the one big file. If you rip each Ep separately to its own folder, you can then encode each separately and put 2 eps per CD.

I have done quite a few TV ep such as Yes Minister series 1 &2, ST The Next Generation series 1, 2 & 3, Futurama series 1 & 2, etc , etc and all done this way as separate files and all look fantastic.

 

[Laz]

Thx CM, I see what you mean now.

The quality was not that great to be honest, but that was all down to the quality of the DVD. Not one of the BBC's best DVD productions that I've seen.

 

[ChickenMan]

Have a look at the Monty Python Flying Circus TV eps DVD's, they are real shockers, worse than the Faulty Fowers ones.

 

[zanita]

Hello All

Since this thread related to my problem I figured I'd state it hear instead of starting a new one.

I too am trying to rip episodes and in my end result I'm not getting a .wav file with my .d2v. I've done this twice with no luck.

My OS is 98SE, I have 256ram and 6GB of hard drive, 3.5 gigs free (I know, tiny, this is a very old computer!) I am also just ripping one ep at a time.

I have an iomega cd-rw dvd-rom external drive and am using SmartRipper 2.41, DVD2AVI 1.77.3, TMPGEnc 2.5 and VCDEasy 1.0.

I'm not sure but this may be my problem, I'm only running at 400mhz.


Any help would be most appreciated

Zan

 

[plextorman]

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[ChickenMan]

To be honest a new thread would have been best, the abouve is about rip & converting to DVDR, yours is to VCD/SVCD which is totally differnt.

But any way, you say "I too am trying to rip episodes and in my end result I'm not getting a .wav file with my .d2v. I've done this twice with no luck." If your not getting a wav file then you have selected the wrong track number in DVD2AVI. When you have the movie loaded into DVD2AVI, hit the F5 key and it will stat playing the movie (no sound and may be distorted, but thats ok) On the RIGHT hand popup box, in Audio, it will show something like DD 2/0 or DD 3/2 and the time counter will be rolling. Hit the ESC key to stop. If nothing, then change Audio Track number and hit F5 again. Repeat until its found.

 

[doggfather]

I guess using the search button really works, anyway, I have a problem ripping a dvd with 4 episodes. I got the first 2 episodes and already converted them to svcd, but I can't seem to get the other 2 so-called bonus episodes. I ripped the dvd using dvd decrypter in file mode and continue to only encode the first 2 episodes when I use DVD2SVCD; I noticed that on the conversion tab under movie length there are 5 choices, but no matter which one I choose I always end up with the first 2 episodes. How do I rip and then load the other 2 episodes. If file mode in DVD Decrypter is the manner to do this how do I do each file since this is what it shows as where I think all the episodes are:

vts_03_0.IFO [ 92kb]
vts_03_0.VOB [ 924kb]
vts_03_1.VOB [1,048,544kb]
vts_03_2.VOB [1,048,544kb]
vts_03_3.VOB [1,048,544kb]
vts_03_4.VOB [ 614,062kb]

Thanks in advance for anybody who helps out.

 

[ChickenMan]

Best is to use DVD Decrypter in IFO mode, and rip each episode to its own separate folder and encode each separatly (use Batch mode here) with DVD2SVCD.

Or you can use SmartRipper to extract them the same way from the files you already have on your HD.