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Okay here's the deal...
I have the Transformers DVD box sets and I'm sick and tired of all the interlace errors that cause my Sony DVD player to comb pretty bad, especially in scenes with lots of red (which are a huge portion, just look at Optimus Prime). I wish Rhino would give up the Transformers license and give it to a company who actually had MONEY to telecine these sets properly.
Anyway, here's what I want to do. I am going to rip each episode, re-encode the IVTC and reduce the resolution to 352x480 on each episode with TMPGEnc, and replace the old VOBs with these new "fixed" ones. I still want to keep all the original menus, etc so that it looks like I'm still using the original discs. However, the trick is how to fool the .ifo files into thinking that the re-encoded VOBs are no different from the originals. Looking at the .ifo files with IFOEdit, I see they are expecting 720x480 files. I need to downconvert them to 352x480 so that I can fit them all onto one DVD-R layer without too many compression artifacts.
Do I need to change all the 720x480 entries to 352x480? It's pretty daunting to guess just how many entries in each .ifo I'll need to change... and I don't want to accidentally screw up and change one of the menu screens to the wrong resolution. Or is there some automated rescan option in IFOEdit that I've missed?
Also, does anybody know how to remove all the junk screens at the beginning of these discs? I've read a couple of guides on removing FBI Warnings, but these discs don't follow the standard (the Video_TS.ifo file doesn't request any VOB IDs in the menu section)
Thanks!
Visor
I have the Transformers DVD box sets and I'm sick and tired of all the interlace errors that cause my Sony DVD player to comb pretty bad, especially in scenes with lots of red (which are a huge portion, just look at Optimus Prime). I wish Rhino would give up the Transformers license and give it to a company who actually had MONEY to telecine these sets properly.
Anyway, here's what I want to do. I am going to rip each episode, re-encode the IVTC and reduce the resolution to 352x480 on each episode with TMPGEnc, and replace the old VOBs with these new "fixed" ones. I still want to keep all the original menus, etc so that it looks like I'm still using the original discs. However, the trick is how to fool the .ifo files into thinking that the re-encoded VOBs are no different from the originals. Looking at the .ifo files with IFOEdit, I see they are expecting 720x480 files. I need to downconvert them to 352x480 so that I can fit them all onto one DVD-R layer without too many compression artifacts.
Do I need to change all the 720x480 entries to 352x480? It's pretty daunting to guess just how many entries in each .ifo I'll need to change... and I don't want to accidentally screw up and change one of the menu screens to the wrong resolution. Or is there some automated rescan option in IFOEdit that I've missed?
Also, does anybody know how to remove all the junk screens at the beginning of these discs? I've read a couple of guides on removing FBI Warnings, but these discs don't follow the standard (the Video_TS.ifo file doesn't request any VOB IDs in the menu section)
Thanks!
Visor
Don't worry, if you don't have an HDTV or play many DVDs on your computer, this stuff won't matter to you (at least not for the time being). At any rate, DVDShrink isn't able to do any kind of IVTC, so I need to use TMPGEnc for this kind of process.
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