I was using HandBrake to rip my Sons of Anarchy DVD over to my PC, as a bit of a test to decide if I wanted to do that to the rest of my small DVD collection. I got back from dinner and found that the videos, all 3 of the episodes on the disc were horribly distorted. Not sure if the proper word is artifact, but it looks like barely recognizable static. Anyone have a fix, or some better software to use?
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Just bumping this up since I've tried again.
The beginning of the first episode is still slightly distorted. It gets just a small bit pixelated. Not unwatchable, just annoying. I used DVD Decrypter to get the DVD to my PC, and the converted with Handbrake.
I have it set to 720x480 for source, but Display Size says 853x480. Is it worth it to try to rerip it to 1080p for the sake of monitor and should I try to rip it again, or just convert it again to remove the mess? I'm watching more and it's still somewhat bad. I'm not trying to do anything illegal, at least to my knowledge. Fair Use under DCMA, no?
The beginning of the first episode is still slightly distorted. It gets just a small bit pixelated. Not unwatchable, just annoying. I used DVD Decrypter to get the DVD to my PC, and the converted with Handbrake.
I have it set to 720x480 for source, but Display Size says 853x480. Is it worth it to try to rerip it to 1080p for the sake of monitor and should I try to rip it again, or just convert it again to remove the mess? I'm watching more and it's still somewhat bad. I'm not trying to do anything illegal, at least to my knowledge. Fair Use under DCMA, no?
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if you try to convert it to 1080P its not gonna look good at all.
Originally Posted by Nhb93  Just bumping this up since I've tried again. The beginning of the first episode is still slightly distorted. It gets just a small bit pixelated. Not unwatchable, just annoying. I used DVD Decrypter to get the DVD to my PC, and the converted with Handbrake. I have it set to 720x480 for source, but Display Size says 853x480. Is it worth it to try to convert it to 1080p for the sake of monitor and should I try to rip it again, or just convert it again to remove the mess? I'm watching more and it's still somewhat bad. I'm not trying to do anything illegal, at least to my knowledge. Fair Use under DCMA, no? |
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That issue is just bizarre. I can't help but think it's user error, because it beats me how you could get Handbrake to output the wrong fourCC. Maybe you forced it or something. I was unable to reproduce this, BTW.
And yes - try RipBot264 or StaxRip if you can't get Handbrake to work.
To clarify, the wrong fourCC means it's trying to use the wrong decoder to decode the video, but since the video isn't just noise even if you decode it wrong -- it will still have the same structure as the original video, which is why it looks messy but still makes sense.
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This should be happening. NTSC DVDs are 720x480, so if a video is flagged as 16:9, the width will be resized so that the aspect ratio is 16:9. 480 * (16/9) is 853.333~
And yes - try RipBot264 or StaxRip if you can't get Handbrake to work.
To clarify, the wrong fourCC means it's trying to use the wrong decoder to decode the video, but since the video isn't just noise even if you decode it wrong -- it will still have the same structure as the original video, which is why it looks messy but still makes sense.
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Originally Posted by Nhb93 I have it set to 720x480 for source, but Display Size says 853x480. Is it worth it to try to rerip it to 1080p for the sake of monitor and should I try to rip it again, or just convert it again to remove the mess? I'm watching more and it's still somewhat bad. I'm not trying to do anything illegal, at least to my knowledge. Fair Use under DCMA, no? |
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What a coincidence, the screen on the Driod is 854 x 480 pixels.
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I went to try out RipBot264, and it told me I don't have some extra software installed, one of them being FFshow, which I have had in the past. Should I just grab that and try Handbrake again?
I went to try out RipBot264, and it told me I don't have some extra software installed, one of them being FFshow, which I have had in the past. Should I just grab that and try Handbrake again?
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I'm trying out RipBot264 right now, but it's odd that no matter which .vob i loaded into it, it gave me a 2 and a half hour long reading, aka the entire 4 episodes on the disc. I want to do it episode by episode, but it seems to not want to do that. I looked at the folder I have all the .vob's in, and they all come in at .99GB, or what they should. Any ideas? I also don't want to wait 3 hours for encoding, only to find out it might not be correct.
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VOBs are linked by metadata. They are also at most 1GiB in size each, and there's no guarantee that there's any sort of logical division between VOBs. Meaning a VOB could have parts from 3 episodes in it, etc.
If you open them in a DVD-supporting media player, it'll also do this and start from the first one. You have to specify the chapters you want to rip.
If you open them in a DVD-supporting media player, it'll also do this and start from the first one. You have to specify the chapters you want to rip.
I know the easiest way for me to do what you are trying to do with TV Shows was to use VOB2MPG http://www.svcd2dvd.com/VOB2MPG/default.aspx
then edit the MPEG file that way then convert with Ripbot. I used MPEG streamclip to edit mpeg's http://www.squared5.com/ Coma probably knows some other programs that you could use
then edit the MPEG file that way then convert with Ripbot. I used MPEG streamclip to edit mpeg's http://www.squared5.com/ Coma probably knows some other programs that you could use
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Well I tried RipBot264 and I couldn't for my life figure out where to go to select the chapters I wanted, and in StaxRip, I can't get it to find a ~45 minute video. I just want to rip it and encode it for playback anytime on my PC and for playback on my Droid.
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