Get ERROR message when using VobBlanker

[Herbert]

Can anyone help me with this error message I get with VobBlanker at the end of it re-authoring a video from my hard drive.

I've saved recorded movies to hard drive using DVD Shrink... and I'm attempting to remove the commercial breaks in these movies by using VobBlanker as a re-authoring tool.

[blutach]

Maybe your VOB is not compliant.

Post your full log please.

Transferred to Authoring & Editing forum.

Regards

[Herbert]

Sorry blutach, but I have no idea how to post the full log. Even I don't seem to have access to the full log -- all I get is a screenshot as you see in my post above. There is nothing that is scrollable. It's just a fixed screenshot.

I again re-authored a movie from my hard drive, using VobBlanker - and again the error message appeared at the 99% done mark. I clicked to save the full log. Then used SEARCH to find where it was located, and then sent this to desktop.

Then went to Photobucket and imported it into my collection there. But this is just a fixed picture - unscrollable.

[blutach]

Try to cut and paste. Also the latest beta enables you to save the logs in a Path of your choice.

Get it here.

Regards

[jsoto]

This error pops up when "fopen" returns an error, which usually is because the file does not exist.
But if VobBlanker did not complain about pointers out of range when opeining the DVD, it means that a right size VIDEO_TS.VOB exists, so seems the reason for this error is that VIDEO_TS.VOB is locked by other application. May be you have it openend in other tool?

jsoto

[Herbert]

I'll check out that link, blutach.

jsoto - you could well be right. I'll rip another DVD movie to hard drive and see if the same problem occurs.

[Herbert]

jsoto - how can the file not exist - even when I have a DVD movie disc sitting in the D: drive?

And I'm still looking for some light to be shed on this mystery:

There seems to be some curious reluctance on the part of PC Help staff to answer this question - not just here at this site, but elsewhere too.

Every other question I post up is answered with happy alacrity - but this particular question - no matter how many times and in what ways I present it - is met with a shattering silence. Beats me.

All I can guess is that people think this is so easy, and so obvious, and so self-apparent that they think I'm having a lend of them.

[blutach]

Have you tried the normal thing of double clicking the relevant folders till you get to where you want to go? And ultimately selecting a file of the correct type as indicated in the Files of type box?

Your complaints are unjustified - particularly where this forum is concerned. All I have seen is people trying to help you. They do so, willingly and freely, giving their time, as no-one here owes anybody anything. I think you need to be more appreciative.

Regards

[Herbert]

My apologies, blutach, I let my frustrations get the better of me.

I've done what you've suggested, but then the files are not in the original window ready to be Imported into the reauthoring program.

When I double-click the VIDEO_TS folder it then opens up as a separate window with the files now removed from the first 'Import' window where 'File name:' goes.

I've tried dragging them over, but they won't go.

[blutach]

Not to worry. You will notice that in these types of "Open" boxes, only certain file types can be accepted. So double click on an accepted file type.

Regards

[Herbert]

I've made the discovery that unlike any of the other programs I've tried (except DVD Shrink) -- 'IFOEdit' will accept an entire video folder into its Import box when you click VIDEO_TS -- and then automatically extracts all the files and lists them ready to be processed. Big discovery. This might be the light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel I've been looking for for so long.

I'll check out your helpful hint about matching up the file types.

Cheers.