Hey all I'm totally new to this stuff, thats why I came out here I downloaded some DVD's, they all worked but they were without sound. All the AUDIO_TS maps were empty.. so I thought the downloads were incomplete or something like that. But in the VIDEO_TS map we're 4 other files, two *.BUP and two *.IFO, which I couldn't open, so I started searching the internet. I found the following piece: IFO files contain the formatting information of the VOB files, which tells the DVD player exactly how the DVD should be played (eg. aspect ratio, subtitles, languages, menus etc...). BUP files are backups for IFO files, which are needed if the IFO files gets corrupted. If you rip the DVD without IFO files, then the VOB files may not play correctly, or may not even play at all. Similarly for conversion, IFO files are essential since video converters like FlasKMPEG (which supports IFO parsing) will need them if you want to encode videos, or fix multi-angle ripping problems. So I figured my downloads aren't "incomplete" but the *.VOB's just dind't run right. I searched for programs to open the files, but there arent any ( d'oh ) After some more reading I found out you gotta shrink it etc.. So I downloaded DVD2one, DVD-Shrink and CloneDVD ( Not all at the same time ofcourse. ) I first tried DVD2one.. I saw there were like 3 different things, the movie itself, the sounds and swedish subtitles.. I just clicked swedish subtitles off and wanted to "extract" the movie. It almost made me cry that DVD2one with trial version only supports movies that arent bigger than 30 mins :/ So I tried DVD-Shrink and CloneDVD, they both gave an error that VTS_01_6.VOB doens't excist.. not that strange.. when it was finished downloading there were only 5.. I'm kinda desperate Are there any other shrink programs I could try that might work? Or is it possible to open the IFO/BUP-files without shrinking? Thanks already!
Downloading movies is a chance you take. Alot of time files are corrupt or incomplete or have errors. You can always get movies at the fleamarket,or backup your own movies.
I know, but downloading is easy ( and free ) And I'm not really sure if this file is incomplete or damaged or whatever.. could be ofcourse.
