Problem remuxing DVD

Hi,

I've got a problem. I'm got a DVD movie whose video suddenly freezes. I've been able to get another copy, but this copy hasn't got the audio and subtitles in Spanish. So I've demuxed the first copy and now I've got the audio and subtitles. How could I insert this audio and subtitles to the second DVD copy?? I've tried Ifoedit, remuxing video (M2V) and audio (AC3), but the result is useless. I also would like to keep the original menu, if possible.

Any idea would be deeply appreciated.

Thank you all!

 

You can try an authoring program like DVDlab Pro.

To keep the original menus takes a bit of time and patience if IFOEdit will not work.

First try IFOEdit. After you mux the movie using DVDlab, move the orignal IFOs and menu files into the folder. First move the ones that DVDlab created to a new folder just in case it does not work.

After you do this, load VIDEO_TS.ifo and press "get VTS sectors". This will correct the IFOs. You will then need edit VIDEO_TS.ifo & VTS_0x_0.ifo to let it know that there is also a Spanish Sound Track. After that, use the "DVD Play" function to test everything. Then use DVD Shrink to load the movie. If there are no Errors, you should be fine to burn. If there are, you can either use IFOEdit to create an image or read on.

Method 2:

You will need DVDreauthor:

http://www.dvd-logic.com/

Click on the "download demo" link.

You also may need Media Player Classic:

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_players/media_player_classic.cfm

Since DVDreauthor will be a demo, it can only re-author VIDEO_TS.vob, VTS_01_0.vob, and VTS_01_1.vob. This means if you have a movie where the main movie is in another VTS, copy the VTS_0x_0.xxx & VIDEO_TS.ifo, and paste it in a new folder. Then create 1 more sub folder named "menu" to save your demux data.

Now, launch DVDreauthor. First configure it to only process the menu. Open up its options and uncheck "extract data from titles". Click OK. Then load the VIDEO_TS.ifo from the new folder. It will give you a ton of errors, but ignore them. Click on the start button and wait.

This will split your menu by VOBID and create sub-picture files. You will need to test the files with Media Player Classic or WMP to see what file is for which menu.

DVDlab Pro has problems with still menus that are in .m2v format (i.e. videos that last only 1 frame). For menus like this, load the video file into media player classic and then use its "save image" option to create a .bmp file for a still menu.

Another problem will occur if there are multiple menus in a VOBID or menus that are split by cells. Use Media Player Classic to create bitmaps or use something like VOBEdit, Vobrator, or PGC Demux to split the cells (one program may not work for every movie). These menus use the same sub-picture for every VOB Cell so you will not need to create any new sub pictures. An example of a movie whose menu is in this format is Bewitched.

Quick VOB Guide:

VIDEO_TS.vob - contains VMG menus. In most Hollywood movies these are FBI Warnings and previews.

VTS_0x_0.vob - this is the VOB that contains the menu for VTS represented by the "0x". For VTS_01, the menu is in VTS_01_0.vob.

VIDEO_TS.ifo - This is the information file for the video manager and contains some info for the entire disc.

VTS_0x_0.ifo - This contains information for a particular VTS. For VTS_01, VTS_01_0.ifo will contain the information for this VTS.

 

Hi again,

I've been able to remux the whole movie with the new soundtrack. The menu is also recognized, but the chapters do not match. Have I forgotten something, or is there any option in DVD-lab which must have been selected/unseletected?? I imported the chapter information extracted from DVD Decrypter into DVDlab.

Maybe the problem is in Ifoedit?? By the way, what do you mean when you say "You will then need edit VIDEO_TS.ifo & VTS_0x_0.ifo to let it know that there is also a Spanish Sound Track"??? Should I change or update something?? I didn't find any option like that.


Thank you very much!!

 

If it works fine, then don't edit anything. I guess that may have something to do with the language being listed when you press the audio button. It may just say "unspecified" for spanish or something like that.

As for the chapters, I did read something about DVDlab having problems with chapter importing. Try to create a DVD Maestro Chapter list. That one may work better for DVDlab. If the chapters are off by a few seconds, do not worry though. The only reason for chapters is convenience when pressing the chapter skip button. You can always create chapter points manually, though this takes some time (about 2 to 5 minutes depending on the movie length).

Another thing can be if the movie is Open GOP, DVDlab can have problems. When you import it, if the movie starts at 01:00:00:01 instead of 00:00:00:01 then you will have to add an hour to every chapter point. Just open the text file in notepad and edit the chapter points.

 

Hi,

thank you very much! The whole thing worked!! Now I've got the movie with all the subtitles and the soundtrack, and the menu works too. Just one more thing, which is a curiosity. The original movie had some letters at the beginning and the end credits at the end, and both could be read in English or Spanish, depending on the language selection. In the remuxed movie, no Spanish captions appeared, even selecting Spanish language or Spanish subtitles. Just the English captions are displayed. Is there an easy way to fix this matter?? I've looked on the original movie and I found out that there's something called 'angles', which seemed to change when you select one language or another. Is there any way to update the .IFO or .VOB files so that this feature could be keeped? I've looked several options in IFOedit, but I'm not sure how to use them.

Thanks a lot!!

 

The only way to explain this would be another angle or Title. If you were to try to rip with DVD Decrypter in IFO mode, you will probably see that there are 2 or more main movies.

What they do is make small clips for the different languages and then create a completely new title for it. So when you select Spanish as the language it will play Title 2 rather than Title 1.

The only way I know to get this is to rip the version you want. If you want Spanish, you will probably have to rip Title 2/PGC 2 or whatever it is called.

 

So there's no way of keeping both angles in the muxed movie??

 

I never tried anything like this. It is possible that DVDRemake can do it as Vurbal suggests.

I can give you a more complicated suggestion involving VM Commands, but I am not that good at this area of DVD Authoring. If you are comfortable entering stuff like the following, let me know:

Goto 3 if(GPRM1 == 0)
Goto 4 if(GPRM1 == 1)
JumpVTS_PTT (tt 1, ptt 1)
JumpVTS_PTT (tt 1, ptt 2)

I can probably think of something that may work, however, there would be a pause from the Spanish credits to the main movie. Actually what I posted will probably be part of the commands for the Dummy Menu that the Play button will link to.