I have been working on this for a solid week and nothing seems to work. I have downloaded about 12 different programs and tried what feels like a hundred different methods and I keep getting the same result. I have tested this with 3 different movies now so it is unlikely that this is just a file error. What happens is no matter how I convert, demux, remux, etx the movie (in this specific instance we will go with accepted) goes in at 1:33:00 and comes out at 1:33:06. This creates 2 issues: 1. when I package it in .mkv so I can have a good format for my Popcorn Hour the chapters slowly get more and more off, so rather than a nice clean jump you get the first few frames from the previous chapter (at the beginning) and are a full 6 seconds off by the end. 2. The audio slowly gets off track too so by the end of the movie there are sync issues that make it unwatchable. I play these same files from the .ifo and VIDEO_TS folder and they are perfect no skips, audio is synced. I have ripped all these from my personal DVDs and they have no compression at all. At this point I am open to absolutely anything that will give me 1. no reduction in quality, and 2. a single file. I cannot do ISO, but I don't think any other file format is off limits. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, I am so frustrated at this point I'm ready to just start deleting my SD movies and wait until I can get them all in HD. As a side note, I am not a complete novice. I have no issues using txmuxer on my bluray and packaging them with MKVmerge. But this is the first time I have tried to change the format of my SD movies so I have very little experience on that front. Thank you thank you thank you! Dan
I am not sure what your process is. You say "no reduction in quality", so there will be no conversion. You can have DVD Shrink copy the movies and make one single VOB file( have to uncheck the option that splits the VOBs in 1 GB chuncks).
I'm sorry, I should have been more clear. I guess saying "any format will do" opens up a lot. I DO want chapters and header data if possible. Realistically if I can't get that then life goes on. I probably will just toss them all through DVD shink and be done with it. What I would REALLY like is .mkv because that is what I am shooting for for all my high def. Though I'm having an audio sync problem with them that is really frustrating. Anyway, .mkv would be GREAT. Anything that would allow chapters and such (and not take 12 hours to re-encode) would be good. If that is a pipe dream then I'll just go for .vob
