NEW AND INSTANT WAY OF RIPPING DVD

Pyle · Post by **Pyle** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 6:52 pm

I read EADFAG's needlessly supercomplicated guide, and tried every method using AVIsynth. That godamn program wouldn't work.

So I went to my folder and looked at the VOB's for about 40 minutes, occasionally whispering questions into my speakers (in hopes it would answer me. No such luck)

So I did the next best thing.

This may not work on all computers. You probably need the Winows Media Player 9 codec from microsoft.com.

Anyways, to get this to work, you MUST turn on file extension showings. To do this, go to tools, folder options, view, then scroll down the list until you see a box marked 'Hide file extensions for unknown files'. Decheck it, press okay.

Now you should see the word 'VOB' after every file. Select the file, right click, go to rename, and change the VOB to 'mpg'. Now it should recognize it as an MPEG file.

I haven't tested this much, but before, my RoxioVideoWave wouldn't detect the VOB's, and now it plays them just the same as any other file. When you play it in WMP, you probably won't have any audio, but who needs it if your editing AMV?

Anyways, if I'm wrong anywhere, let me know and I'll try to correct it.

If I'm right, can you make it a sticky at the top?

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 7:18 pm

While I'll refrain from flaming you to hell and back, I have to at least say this much:
The guides walk you through a "complicated" process for a reason. They wouldn't make you do all of that if the answer was so simple. At least I don't *THINK* AD and Ermac get some sadistic sexual pleasure from watching people wrestle with their avisynth scripts. What you have said might *work*, but I assure you your resulting output will be quite inferior to what you would have were it done properly.

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 7:28 pm

Let me put it this way: a .vob file really is a form of MPEG2. There are decoders to watch them using WMP. There's a reason for AVS. It allows you to do a lot of handy preprocessing.

Pyle · Post by **Pyle** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 7:38 pm

Zarxrax wrote:While I'll refrain from flaming you to hell and back, I have to at least say this much:
The guides walk you through a "complicated" process for a reason. They wouldn't make you do all of that if the answer was so simple. At least I don't *THINK* AD and Ermac get some sadistic sexual pleasure from watching people wrestle with their avisynth scripts. What you have said might *work*, but I assure you your resulting output will be quite inferior to what you would have were it done properly.

Okay, I'm sorry for adding 'Needlessly' in there. I use it a lot, so I figured I'd put it in here. Thought no one would take it seriously, but as I've found out time after time on the .org, some people take everything seriously.

I get the feeling they would get 'some' kind of pleasure from watching people smash their heads into monitors over and over

It worked quite well for me. The only problem at all in quality loss was a small interlace trail that happened for maybe 5 seconds total (combining all of them. They are very small moments

). Try it yourself and see if it works for you.

I tried rather hard on getting the AVISynth codec done properly, but the damn unrecognized exception error kept getting in my way. I visited the sticky and did all the solutions, but they didn't work. Sad for me.

I'm just stupid, so I made a stupid solution.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 7:51 pm

Try it again when the new guide is up in a few weeks or whenever. Maybe it will work then and you wont have to feel stupid anymore

Pyle · Post by **Pyle** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 8:04 pm

Zarxrax wrote:Try it again when the new guide is up in a few weeks or whenever. Maybe it will work then and you wont have to feel stupid anymore

Heh, I'm always gonna be stupid. Read my profile and you'll see

Declan_Vee · Post by **Declan_Vee** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:09 pm

I just don't get it. Are people really that stupid? Or am I just... super-intelligent?

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:36 pm

Pyle wrote: Okay, I'm sorry for adding 'Needlessly' in there. I use it a lot, so I figured I'd put it in here. Thought no one would take it seriously, but as I've found out time after time on the .org, some people take everything seriously.

I don't take video that seriously; I don't do it for a living.

I just enjoy learning about it, so I like to use every tool I can to make my encodes and edits look as good as possible. I write fun stuff like this to help me accomplish that goal. (That script, by the way, isn't really all that complicated -- if you step through it it's very easy to figure out what it does.)

I wasn't born knowing everything about video -- nobody is. I did, however, find EADFAG (well actually back then it was just ErMaC's guide, but whatever) to be a nice stepping stone to more complex topics.

Digital video is not easy to learn, but it is not impossible for anyone to get a good grasp of it. All it takes is the will to sit down, read, and - most importantly - experiment. Who knows, you might actually end up finding it enjoyable.

As for your method, it works only because a lot of MPEG-2 decoders can also decode VOB file structure to extract MPEG-2 video streams. You don't, however, get the processing benefits of AVISynth.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:39 pm

Oh yeah, and as for the Unrecognized Exception problem, try using Donald Graft's fixed versions of MPEG2Dec3 and DVD2AVI. I've not had any major problems with them yet.

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:58 pm

trythil wrote:I just enjoy learning about it, so I like to use every tool I can to make my encodes and edits look as good as possible. I write fun stuff like this to help me accomplish that goal. (That script, by the way, isn't really all that complicated -- if you step through it it's very easy to figure out what it does.)

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