It can be difficult to determine what title to choose for the main movie, when trying to rip or copy a DVD It becomes especially difficult when certain copy protection mechanisms screw with the table of contents, and applications like and suddenly show a lot of “movies” on the DVD (I’ve seen up to 99 titles appear like this). Obviously the DVD does not contain 99 movies, but selecting the wrong title will actually produce a screwed up rip. Parts of the movies are skipped or are not in the right place in the movie.With a simple trick you can figure out what title to pick (covering Windows, MacOS X and Linux). VideoLAN VLCVLC, a free video playback program available for Windows, MacOS X, Linux and other Operating Systems, is probably the easiest and most flexible tool to use for this purpose.
Download VLC from the, install it, and start it.Note: Most Linux distributions come with so called package managers like APT, or Software Centre , which typically allow you to install VLC straight from their.Next insert your DVD if you haven’t already. MacOS XIn the main menu, with VLC being the active application, click “ File” “ Open Disc” (or press COMMAND + D). VLC MacOS X – Open DVDThe DVD will now start playback, which typically starts with the menu of the DVD.Select the movie you want to rip and start watching the movie.From the main menu you can now determine what title is the real title you need for ripping – make sure the actual movie is playing!Click “ Playback” “ Title“.The title in the list with the checkmark in front of it is the active title you’re looking for – take note of the title number and playback time so you can find it back in or whatever DVD ripping program you’re using and that’s all there is to it. Hi James,because of some copyright protection trickery, applications like might have difficulties detecting what to rip and what not.
I did indeed try the MakeMKV, and it solved the Jumping Track problem. Not only did MakeMKV solve the Season 15 Jumping Track problem, when I did the Windows Media Player trick to find the tracks for season 14, the tracks it identified and I therefore ripped didn’t have audio. So, I tried the Make MKV method.1.
Scan DVD with Make MKV. It did an incredible job of identifying the real and fake tracks. No red herrings threw it off at all. Downloaded the five separate episodes per DVD.
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However, the files directly off the DVD with MakeMKV were large. Some episodes were up to a gig each. This was way too big.2. Ran it through Handbrake to compress (Open Source - find file (second option) from MakeMKV generally ‘track01’- select destination folder - Start Encode). Did it on default 1080p Fast setting. Barely any compromise to quality, and it moved it from a gig down to a much more manageable 70MB or so (1000 MB in a gig).3. For doing multiple tracks (such as episodes in a TV show), a lot of time can be saved by Adding to Queue once it starts.
While the first “track01” is compressing, click Open Source - find specific file (second option) - select destination folder - Add to Queue. This way you can line it up and leave the area.So the only differences between using Handbrake alone and MakeMKV first is that you add an extra step and you might need a bit of extra room on your hard drive. Of course, once they’re compressed, they larger files from MakeMKV can be deleted. I had no problems with the episodes after this. Hope this helps someone else!James. Hi Bill,by the sound of it, you’re running Windows?If needed, but I doubt you would need it, you could convert the MPG to MP4 with Handbrake.For editing, I’d take a look at, you can do the 14 day trial or (for non-commercial use).
Not sure if the free version links to the Mac or the Windows version, so you may have to open the instead and look for the line that says “ Get it Free. A free video editor version is available for non-commercial use only. If you will be using it at home you can download the free version here.”I have used it a few times on my Mac, and it does what they claim.
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Now keep in mind; I have not tested this one under Windows yet.Let me know if this works, if not, I’ll help and see what else I can find for you.hans. Another option when trying to pull episodes from a TV series on disc is to queue up all the video files and start them when you go to bed. When you wake up look at the output files and generally the red herrings will be very short files only the full episodes will be longer files. It is what I have done as the VLC method didn’t work it gave me specific title numbers but only 1 of the ones it gove on a disc with 3 episodes was correct. But by using the queue method it ran all night but in the morning I it had 80 different mp4 files created but only 3 were over 200,000 kbs in size those were the 3 that were full episodes, all the others were between 3 and 4800 kbs in size so it was easy to tell which one to just delete. I watched a few of the files in the queue going through handbrake and it appears that when it is a red herring it will only eat up about 3 or 4 minutes of time so I suspect the whole process of it doing 80 different titles probably took less than 3 hours.Yirmin.
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