Can I fix a movie that can't get beyond the first chapter?

[aw_giantsfan]

I used Toast to make a main feature only disc image. When I mount the image and play it in DVD Player, it won't get past the first "chapter," which is essentially an 8-second title card showing the studio that released the film.

 

The disc image is 4.32 GB in size. When I look inside the VIDEO_TS folder, it looks like the VOBs for the main feature are all there. There are several 1 GB VOBs.

 

However, in Toast's Media Browser, it only shows one title, and when I bring it over, it's only the 8-second title "chapter."

 

Is this something I can fix with MyDVDEdit?

[aw_giantsfan]

Tsantee, right: I used DVD video from VIDEO_TS and then selected main title only. Actually, the main feature fit without compression, so that was even weirder that it happened.

 

Chapter skip did not work, nor did fast-forward. As far as the DVD player was concerned, there were only 8 seconds of video on it.

 

Even more strangely, the Toast Media Browser didn't see the longer VOBs that I could see in the VIDEO_TS folder when I browse the file system. The Toast Media Browser also was only able to see those 8 seconds. As a result, I can't do what you suggest (grab the MPEG with Media Browser).

 

I tried opening the VOBs with MPEG Streamclip, and that seemed to fix some timecode errors, but that made me lose the subtitles and alternate audio tracks, it seems.

 

It seems like everything's there, but there might be something that's a little off (like that aspect ratio problem that you helped me fix with MyDVDEdit last time). Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

[tsantee]

Tsantee, right: I used DVD video from VIDEO_TS and then selected main title only. Actually, the main feature fit without compression, so that was even weirder that it happened.

 

Chapter skip did not work, nor did fast-forward. As far as the DVD player was concerned, there were only 8 seconds of video on it.

 

Even more strangely, the Toast Media Browser didn't see the longer VOBs that I could see in the VIDEO_TS folder when I browse the file system. The Toast Media Browser also was only able to see those 8 seconds. As a result, I can't do what you suggest (grab the MPEG with Media Browser).

 

I tried opening the VOBs with MPEG Streamclip, and that seemed to fix some timecode errors, but that made me lose the subtitles and alternate audio tracks, it seems.

 

It seems like everything's there, but there might be something that's a little off (like that aspect ratio problem that you helped me fix with MyDVDEdit last time). Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

I haven't encountered anything like this so I don't know what to suggest. Timecode breaks can prevent Toast from extracting a full MPEG from the Media Browser but I've not heard of that being an issue when using the DVD video from VIDEO_TS setting. Toast 8 improved this feature by enabling selection of specific titles rather than just all or main so it might give a different result. It might not, too.

 

When you did the tests with the Media Browser and with Streamclip you were using the source VIDEO_TS folder and not the one burned by Toast, right?

[aw_giantsfan]

I made a Toast disc image of the original ripped VIDEO_TS and then dumped the VIDEO_TS folder. The Media Browser was only able to see those 8 seconds on the Toast disc image (mounted) and the DVD that was burned from it.

 

I re-ripped the DVD from scratch, repeated the steps, and it worked this time. I guess I'll never know what really happened, since I can't seem to reproduce it. Thanks for helping me look into it!

[tsantee]

Help me understand the steps you followed. I'm guessing you used DVD video from VIDEO_TS and then selected main title only. Toast then did its fit-to-DVD compression and burned the disc. However, only an 8-second title card is playing. Have you tried pressing the chapter skip button on the remote control to advance the DVD? Also try using the search menu on the DVD player to select the later title.

 

I don't know why it didn't work the way it is supposed to.

 

A different and more time-consuming approach is to use the Media Browser to extract the title you want from the source VIDEO_TS folder and then choose Save as Disc Image. You might want to choose the option to have no menu. Then choose the disc image using the Image File setting in the Copy window to burn the DVD using fit-to-DVD.