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Title: Ripping DVDs when the 'feature' is split into multiple parts/files
Post by: Spike1000 on May 09, 2017, 09:08:21 am

I've been ripping some of my DVDs with MakeMKV with great success about 90% of the time. For the other 10% or so the main 'feature' has been mastered into a number of separate files on the DVD and so gets ripped to a number of separate .MKV files.  :-[

This is a real pain as it's just not worth the effort trying to reconstruct the main feature from these individual parts. Are there any tools that do a better job of dealing with these fragmented main 'features' and can write a single MKV file?

Spike

Title: Re: Ripping DVDs when the 'feature' is split into multiple parts/files
Post by: Alex B on May 09, 2017, 09:52:30 am

I can't recommend a better DVD ripper (haven't used them lately), but you could try MKVToolNix. It can merge mkv files very quickly without re-encoding them:

https://mkvtoolnix.download/index.html

Some guides:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrQUbhjjwE0
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/178888/howto-joining-multi-part-movies-files-with-mkvtoolnix-gui
- a google search will find many more.

Title: Re: Ripping DVDs when the 'feature' is split into multiple parts/files
Post by: blgentry on May 09, 2017, 10:25:27 am

Hmm, that's odd.  I've ripped something like 200 DVDs and BDs with MakeMKV; not sure of the exact number, as I'm not in front of my MC video computer right now.

I've literally never had that happen.  For movies, I always get one big chunk.  Sometimes there are several different large chunks on a DVD or BD.  But I can always find one title that contains the entire movie.

Sounds like something is amiss with your setup.  Or perhaps you just have quite a few very unusually authored DVDs?  Maybe an example or two would help.

Brian.

Title: Re: Ripping DVDs when the 'feature' is split into multiple parts/files
Post by: Spike1000 on May 09, 2017, 10:48:15 am

Thanks for that. I have used MKVToolNix to join a single episode of a series that was inexplicably stored in two parts on the DVD so ripped to two MKV files.

-----------Big Edit-----------
Hmm, just spent some time revisiting and re-ripping some of the DVDs I ripped the other weekend and what I'm seeing now bears no resemblance to what I remember seeing the other day. . .  ?

The problem is no where near as bad I thought it was.

I only have one confirmed issue where one episode of a series was split in two parts for no apparent reason and I had join it with MKVToolNix. (Disc was Danger UXB disc 2 or 3)

I still do think I had an issue with Unfaithful (2002) but I don't have that to hand at the moment.

So the problem isn't as bad as I feared (thank goodness) and MakeMKV is still my weapon of choice for ripping DVDs

-----------Big Edit-----------

Spike