Hi and welcome to the forums wstadmin
I understand all your suggestions but what you ask for is basically impossible without major reauthoring of the DVD but that's not to say it's impossible. It's just not worth the hassle as DVD's can be very complex. I guess the best thing would be to jump the missing parts by modifying commands etc but again not worth the time/effort
I can tell by your post that your standalone DVD player/CloneDVD are quite forgiving as using the delete playback button does not create a compliant DVD. Some players will barf on it along with a few transcoder tools as it basically is a 'hack'. Completely removing any VOB ID from a DVD can also create playback issues as fussy standalone player owners will testify to
we all know about other tools that can strip etc but one major weakness of CloneDVD is that is cannot strip menu's. Menu's can contain more than intros etc such as extra languages and on some DVD's over 500MB of blank video. This blank video confuses the likes of CloneDVD/Recode 2 and takes ages to process. Recode 2 can only compress it to around 60% of it's original size and Clone DVD takes an eternity to process it also
it's strange how DVD 'manufacturer's' don't pick up on this fact that filling the DVD with dummy blank video can confuse most transcoders. Another thing that confuses some of them is linking all the 0.12/0.15 blanks in the PGC's. DS is now probbaly for the more advanced DVD's and pre Recode2 and CloneDVD basically did a lot more than the others but even DS struggles due to the IfoUpdate process
You don't have to tell me about potential
, just look around at my posts moaning about the lack of programming in this area. The saddest thing about it all is that I've been stripping DVD's for ages now. In that time I have increased my knowledge in exactly what you can and cannot do and how to do it. I tried my hardest to get a tool to do it asking numerous programming 'people in the know' to help, yet none were interested (even now) and in the end TMG stepped forward but looking back, we set about it the wrong way by relying on other tools and therefore limited DS's development
Even so, instead of spending hours stripping a DVD using the old manual Ifoedit method, anyone could do it without any real knowledge which was it's aim as plenty used my Ifoedit stripping guides (RIP). Ifoedit is a great tool but most suffer from Ifoeditphobia and trying to hunt out that elusive VOB ID is sometimes not that easy
. Most of the transcoders were playing a catchup game when it came to stripping video content and basically some have caught up a little
That doesn't mean they know what they are doing as CloneDVD is just copying a well known insert VOBID1/CELLID1 method fine tuned by me and the guys over at Doom9 (here's one thread
HERE working with the great 2COOL
& JFerguson), but even that has it's issues but people don't see it due to forgiving players
. I also don't like the way it remaps the VOB ID's but maybe it's harmless. Recode2 is just using an ancient remux method (from which I developed most of my methods) and that's why it's playback is for the same length of the original. You could do this remuxing method with Ifoedit in 2002 so it shows you how far behind these tools are
some can also use the early version of MenuModder to disable those buttons to the removed content
p.s. speed isn't everything and as The Poacher mentions 'each to his own'. I would just use whatever tools suits the requirements of the DVD
. Intervideo DVDCopy is the best 'stripper' in my eyes and whups CloneDVD's a$$ (even DS) and has for months yet it's chapter stripping capabilities (probably over 5 months now) are not so well known
. As for the 'infamous' quality issues between the tools, I couldn't care less as I don't make DVD backups
