I'm stuck, actually IFOEdit is.

[zarish]

Ok, I'm trying to strip the DVD of my wedding. The company that did this DVD filled VIDEO_TS.vob with about 15 minutes of previews for their service (filming, video transfer, etc). They actually force watching this every time the DVD is inserted before going to the menu. These preview show as 13 items in the Menu Item List. There do not appear to be any parts in the Item List for the VIDEO_TS.vob. I selected to remove all of these items. When I then go to process the first IFOEdit that comes up just sits and hangs there.

DVDStripper v0.2.0
IFOEdit v0.95 (also tried v0.96)
DVDDecryptor v3.1.7.0
WindowsXP Professional SP1 with all current hotfixes. Drivers are the most current available directly from hardware manufactures as of Dec 31, 2003.
CPU = 2 * Intel Pentium 3 @ 850 MHz

If I elect to close the "stuck" IFOEdit it asks me about saving. It appears to want to save in the D:\Temp\DVDStripper directory which is the path I set as DVDStripper to use for it's temp files.

 

[fredthompson]

Every so often there's an odd IFO configuration which makes DVDStripper croak. One thing you CAN do is use IfoEdit to manually edit the first play item to have it force your menu to come up, make an image file, load it as a virtual drive, then run DVDStripper against the virtual drive.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=67389

When you see the first play command, right-click on it and you will have a window ot chagne the settings.

 

[MackemX]

When I then go to process the first IFOEdit that comes up just sits and hangs there.

CPU = 2 * Intel Pentium 3 @ 850 MHz

this looks like your problem as some dual CPU's cause issues by missing the commands to Ifoedit for some reason

can you run both apps on one CPU and see if it still hangs?

some people have found that CPU killer relieves this issue

 

[timekills]

I can vouch for the dual cpu occasional hiccups. I've found setting affinity to a single CPU also can help.

 

[zarish]

I can vouch for the dual cpu occasional hiccups. I've found setting affinity to a single CPU also can help.

Yes, setting both DS and IfoEdit to the same processor solved a lot of the problems I was having as I said. The Copying Menu VOBs crash still plagues me though. As well as the complaints about timemap tables for VOBs that have no menus even when I have not editted that particular VOB at all.

As I said though I do end up with a working final result which is good.

 

[MackemX]

@zarish

have you downloaded dependencywalker yet?

the next time you have issues, get hold of a program called CPUkiller and try using that to slow down your PC a little as this will overcome your issues

the overall process time isn't affected that much as it's mostly data copying anyway and not actual processing

 

[timekills]

..The Copying Menu VOBs crash still plagues me though. As well as the complaints about timemap tables for VOBs that have no menus even when I have not editted that particular VOB at all.

I know you are not the "typical computer user" if you're familiar with dual-cpu setups, butyou might want to try an OS reinstall. I had what I thought was a new enough XP install (about 2 months, max) and was having the same timemap problems (usually on specific genre DVDs). I assumed it was the DVD, but for the heck of it, reloaded a ghosted image of my OS. Turns out that some of my other (supposedly unisntalled) software may have been causing a conflict, because the problem DVDs (two, up to that point) worked as expected afterward.

It's like troubleshooting your hardware - after installing memory for the 1,000,000th time in 20 years, you KNOW it wasn't how you put the memory in but when everything else has failed...might as well do the nasty and start from scratch.

 

[zarish]

Yes, I have considered the aged windows install as a possibility. I am planning on re-installing in the near future, but as yet I still have some large amounts of data to back up. Till that is done I will have to contend with the issue. The end results appear to be fine so I am willing to deal with it for now.

Actually the dual CPU rig will become a server after the rebuild and a new rig will become my primary PC. It the install on that rig is really a temporary thing to tide me over till around April when the new rig is to be built.

 

[zarish]

@zarish

have you downloaded dependencywalker yet?

the next time you have issues, get hold of a program called CPUkiller and try using that to slow down your PC a little as this will overcome your issues

the overall process time isn't affected that much as it's mostly data copying anyway and not actual processing

Yes I have downloaded dependencywalker. However, as I suggested in another thread perhaps it might be possible for you to post a report showing the known good DLLs and that would allow people to check for themselves by running the compare.