Re: [dvd::rip] Cluster support for vobcopy images?

Albert Schueller wrote:

> It's not clear to me why since presumably however dvdrip transfers dvd
> contents to disk can't be all that dissimilar to what vobcopy does.  Are
> there any plans to expand clustering support to disk images created by
> other tools?  E.g. vobcopy, or to make dvdrip's own ripping to hard drive
> capabilities more robust (since it fails on about 90% of the dvd's I've
> tried it on and vobcopy has never failed, it clearly is doable).

This is a restriction of transcode's cluster mode. It needs transcode's
import_vob filter, which has the splitting abilities necessary for 
cluster mode. import_dvd (which is used for transcode DVD images) can't
navigate through the image data.

But there is a workaround (which probably should get an official feature
of dvd::rip, although it's somewhat nasty... ;): point the DVD device 
entry in dvd::rip preferences dialog to the vobcopy DVD image, switch 
over to dvd::rip's default "rip to harddrive first" mode and "rip" the 
title again from that image. Now you have a VOB structure which is 
compatible with transcode's cluster mode. And now you know why called 
this nasty: ripping twice isn't really nice, although the second rip 
goes really fast, since it's more or less a simple copy of data located
on your harddrive.

> Don't get me wrong, I love dvdrip.  It takes greatly simplifies the
> transcoding process, but I'd also love to see it become more robust
> (w.r.t. ripping, cropping and even transcoding, it's very hit or miss).

Hmm, what's not robust with "ripping, cropping and even transcoding"?

Regards,

Joern

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Joern Reder
Development Head ZYN! Coding Division - http://www.zyn.de/
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