2013-01-29, 12:03
(2013-01-29, 10:18)Hyram Wrote:(2013-01-29, 03:09)AnalogKid Wrote: If I have the following stacking setup:
Star Wars
|__ Star Wars.cd1.avi
|__ Star Wars.cd2.avi
etc
Any time I encounter a movie that's more than one part, I join them into a single file, which is a 20 second job in VirtualDub:
- launch VirtualDub and in the Video menu, set it to 'Direct stream copy'
- open the first part of the multipart video
- drag the location slider to the end, then use 'Append video' from the file menu to add the next part onto the end of the first.
- repeat the last step if there are more than two parts
- choose 'Save as AVI' and save your joined video with its proper name (in the above example, 'Star Wars.avi')
- quit VirtualDub, throw away the old parts.
Any time VirtualDub complains about VBR encoding or mismatched rates, I just class it as a "YARRR!!" (Yet Another Retarded Ripper Reject) and delete the whole folder :p
Sadly, the above was an example only. Some of the multi disc rips are ISOs - which then ends up having to either ripping to a container format (but losing menus) or just resolving the stacking issue.
Ironically, they ended up being ISO due to the video_ts folder problems described a few posts back!
I'm a neat freak, so can't stand having to stack files, but there's just a handful of movies in my collection where this issue remains. Problem solved now though. Still seems weird that the metadata files take the first member of the stack (cd1) as the base name, rather than the stack token being transparent, but ho hum!