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Posted 07/01/09 at 10:00:00 AM  by The Maximum PC Staff

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Ask the Doctor LogoDoc, I need some help! Using what I learned from your mag, I built a small home theater PC. Everything is good, except when I want to watch a movie I have ripped (I use SlySoft AnyDVD). I don’t know how to get the movie to run in one piece. I have to play the movie in sections. I have Nero 7 and PowerDVD but it happens the same way with either.


—Denny Morris
 
Provided you ripped the movie correctly, all you have to do is select the correct source. In PowerDVD, open the video_ts.ifo file, which should let you play the whole movie straight through, or skip between chapters, even turn subtitles on, just like a physical DVD. We also recommend the VLC player (http://www.videolan.org.vlc/), a free media player which has no trouble playing ripped DVDs (just point it at the containing folder). Check out Will Smith’s DVD-ripping feature in the March 2009 issue for more!

 

SUBMIT YOUR QUESTION Are flames shooting out of the back of your rig? First, grab a fire extinguisher and douse the flames. Once the pyrotechnic display has fizzled, email the doctor at doctor@maximumpc.com for advice on how to solve your technological woes.

 

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TAGS: ask the doctor, dvd ripping, Home theatre
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avatarIt sounds like you dragged

Submitted by sreesesr on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 12:21pm

It sounds like you dragged dropped the Audio and Video folders on the DVD after you ripped them.  If you are using PowerDVD and you have simply copied the Audio and Video folders over to the DVD then what will happen is the player will play each of the .VOB files one at a time.  If you use AnyDVD to remove the protection then use DVD Shrink(free) in conjunction with Nero then you will be able to burn a perfect DVD that will play normally.  DVD Shrink has an option that will allow you to burn the files directly to DVD using Nero all in one step.

 

 

U.S. Army Sergeant

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avatarUse VirtualCloneDrive

Submitted by wiak on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 1:50pm

1. Rip your DVDs with Slysoft AnyDVD Rip to File option

2. Download & Install Slysoft VirtualCloneDrive

http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html

3. Double click on the .iso file and play it just like a DVD ;)

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avatarIs the result in AVI / XVID

Submitted by johnnymegabyte on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 7:01am

Is the result in AVI / XVID ? .... several AVI ?

you can use a freeware called MediaCoder to "Join" video files. 

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avatarThat and a few others.

Submitted by JDorfler on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 7:35am

I'm currently not at "my" pc, but I know that you can use Handbrake for avi, mp4, xvid, and divx if I remember correctly.  I'll make a correction when I can.

Media Coder is nice, but for some reason, for me, Handbrake just works better.

Sager NP5797 (Clevo)

nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX/Intel QX9300/4GB DDR3 1066

Vista/Ubuntu/Fedora OSes

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avatarIf you live outside the US.

Submitted by JDorfler on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 3:46am

If you live outside the USA you can use Ubuntu.  Put in the Medibuntu repositories, load libdvdcss, load VLC, and rip any DVD as an ISO to your hard drive with Brasero Disc copier.  (Do all updates and edit your menu so that Disc Copier is in your System Tools menu.  Regular Brasero has issues copying disks to ISOs.)  Now, you can just open the ISO with VLC and play your movies just like a regular DVD.

Also, if you have Handbrake installed (via Deb file or Google "Handbrake Ubuntu Repository" to add it to your repository list) you can now transcode the ISO into a smaller multimedia package, and you can do things like watch Lord of the Rings without having to change discs, by adding the files in the order you wish to watch them in the VLC playlist.

Sager NP5797 (Clevo)

nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX/Intel QX9300/4GB DDR3 1066

Vista/Ubuntu/Fedora OSes

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