I've been trying to rip the movie "The Curse of the Golden Flower" for a few days now. It's been giving me issues. Here's what I have tried:
Handbrake from the DVD directly.If I select Chinese Audio with English subtitles and any iPod compatible preset (Built in or custom), HB crashes consistently consistently. If I try it with English Audio and no subtitles I get a file which is blocky, jerky and skips with audio that skips. (I need to get a log for this, but I'm ripping something else right now).
If I mount it with Fairmount (latest version) and try the the same as above the results are the same, it just takes 50% longer for HB to read the DVD and Fairmount comes up with lots of "Bad Sectors" as it reads the DVD.
MTR 2.6.6: Crashes when it tries to read the DVD both with and without Fairmount employed. I've given up on MTR 3.X since they went "Pay per Open Source".
DVD2OneX (Latest Version): It will eventually read the DVD but not consistently when mounted with Fairmount (crashes without it). When it will read the DVD I can see the zero cells and I can remove them but the resultant files (Movie Only option) are about 8k in size each. No matter what option I choose I get the same thing OR it crashed DVD2OneX.
DVDRemaster (Latest Version) will tell me that it's converting or extracting the movie (depending on which I choose) but after about 45 min of work I get a file or a Vide_TS folder that is about 12k in size and nothing else.
Both DVD2OneX and DVDRemaster were done with Chinese Audio and Subtitles, I could try English Audio with no subtitles, but I expect the result will be similar to what HB gets.
This DVD obviously is badly mastered on purpose, so this is plainly NOT a HB issue. It's one of those 99 title DVDs but I determined that Chapter 2 is the correct title and it does play in the Macs DVD player. I've run out of ideas, so any fresh ideas would be appreciated.
I found a tough one
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Re: I found a tough one
AnyDVD added support for that disk about 2 years ago:
6.1.7.3 2007 09 07
- New (DVD): Added support for a new copy protection to the option to remove "Protection based on unreadable Sectors", e.g. "Curse of the Golden Flower", R2, UK
6.1.7.3 2007 09 07
- New (DVD): Added support for a new copy protection to the option to remove "Protection based on unreadable Sectors", e.g. "Curse of the Golden Flower", R2, UK
Re: I found a tough one
You will note that this is in the Mac section. AnyDVD isn't going to do me much good on a Mac. It IS good to know that someone has a solution though....mduell wrote:AnyDVD added support for that disk about 2 years ago:
6.1.7.3 2007 09 07
- New (DVD): Added support for a new copy protection to the option to remove "Protection based on unreadable Sectors", e.g. "Curse of the Golden Flower", R2, UK
Re: I found a tough one
You should be able to find your encode log in ~/Library/Application Support/Handbrake/EncodeLogs/
Have you tried the usual options? Switched from dvdnav to dvdread and restarted? Tried open (title specific)?
I think I've got the region 4 release kicking around at home somewhere... I'll have a look when I get the chance.
Have you tried the usual options? Switched from dvdnav to dvdread and restarted? Tried open (title specific)?
I think I've got the region 4 release kicking around at home somewhere... I'll have a look when I get the chance.
Re: I found a tough one
I had a similar issue with a dvd a few days ago. What I did was use disk utility to create a dmg from the dvd. Then mount the dmg and have handbrake rip from the mounted dmg. It worked flawlessly for me. Hope that helps!
Re: I found a tough one
One of them. Opening the specific title was the first thing I did. Let me try dvdread when my current batch is complete.TedJ wrote:You should be able to find your encode log in ~/Library/Application Support/Handbrake/EncodeLogs/
Have you tried the usual options? Switched from dvdnav to dvdread and restarted? Tried open (title specific)?
I think I've got the region 4 release kicking around at home somewhere... I'll have a look when I get the chance.
Logs:
http://handbrake.fr/pastebin/pastebin.php?show=1074
http://handbrake.fr/pastebin/pastebin.php?show=1075
http://handbrake.fr/pastebin/pastebin.php?show=1076
That's 3 of the 6 from yesterday. I have 3 more if desired.
They should all ref Ch2 since that is what I was testing. Tons of errors and we know there are plenty of zero cells on the DVD.
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Re: I found a tough one
Title 2. Now if even the mods don't make the distinction…baggss wrote:It's one of those 99 title DVDs but I determined that Chapter 2 is the correct title and it does play in the Macs DVD player.
As far as I can tell, the zero cells aren't the principal/only issue:
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libdvdread: Error cracking CSS key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB (0x00000540)What build of VLC are you using?
Re: I found a tough one
Yeah, my bad. I was only ripping chapter 2 of title 2.Rodeo wrote:
Title 2. Now if even the mods don't make the distinction…
1.0.3 32 bit Universal (on a PPC Quad G5)Rodeo wrote:What build of VLC are you using?
Re: I found a tough one
I just tried this and it seems to work fine, subtitles, chinese audio and all. Just to make sure I wasn't insane I switched it back and got the same results as before.TedJ wrote: Switched from dvdnav to dvdread and restarted?
Re: I found a tough one
Cool, glad you got it sorted. 
Might want to let JohnAStebbins know... he's always interested in titles that bork dvdnav.
Might want to let JohnAStebbins know... he's always interested in titles that bork dvdnav.