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I have a box set of dvds from a TV series, I want to rip them to a high quality mp4 or mkv and save them to my media server with all my other dvds.

The problem is that 2 of the dvds (though brand new) are damaged. Tested this using several different DVD reader/drives, and dvdisaster shows a few sectors as "bad". There is no scratch on the dvd, they are brand new, but they must have just been recorded poorly.

The DVD's are also horribly formatted, almost every video player I tested shows like 30 hours of playback (but the same 5 titles are repeated over and over 6+ times, which I can tell because the main 5 titles have slightly different runtime lengths in terms of minutes, and they each repeat a bunch of times just as a different title number), and viewing the DVD while mounted in linux shows something like 50 gigs worth of VOB data which we know is not possible since a dvd is ~4 gigs only. So yeah, whoever stamped these DVD's needs some help.

The DVD's have episodes, about 3 or 4 fifty min episodes per dvd.

When I play the dvd directly in VLC, there is like a tiny little hiccup in the playback (which I can live with) and then everything resumes as normal. I'd prefer no hiccup, but no big deal.


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However when ripping using VLC, I get all sorts of very odd glitches depending on how I ripped it. Sometimes the rip is only 30 mins long (instead of the 50 mins it should be), or sometimes the rip shows 30 hours of playback (and has other errors, can't watch the end of the rip there either), and sometimes the rip has 50 mins of video but where the hiccup occurs is about 30 mins and then the audio is 10 seconds out of sync in the ripped video beyond that point etc etc. I didn't write down which rip format options caused which error in the rip, so going by my horrible memory here.

Basically... how do I get a high quality rip, using VLC, where the rip just has the same tiny 1 second glitch as it does when playing back the dvd in "live mode"? I can live with the glitch when playing the dvd directly, I just want a rip that does the same thing. I've tried every combination I can think of in terms of output format (mp4/mkv/mov/ts etc) and video/audio compression techniques, nothing seems to be working here.

I've tried the "dump raw input" option as well, no dice. Worth mentioning that I think whenever I choose a "raw" or "native" option, the outputed video is jerky and stuttery. I have to always pick a video compression like h265 or h264 etc to get smooth video playback.

I have the same issue converting .ts to mp4. I converted a 90 minutes (or so) "Inspector Barnaby" thriller using VLC 3.0.4 on WIN7, and audio is out of sync, is 3 seconds (or so) delayed.
I did not find a Bug on trac.videolan.org

Any Ideas?

I can contribute source.ts and converted.mp4 and report a bug, if it's really still unknown.

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Rainer

I should clarify that the audio is only out of sync for my rip at the point where the glitch occurs in the dvd. The first 30 mins of the rip, the audio and video is perfectly normal. The glitch on the DVD happens, and then from then the rip is way out of sync, but watching the DVD directly from disk there is no sync issue; there is just a tiny hiccup and then everything is fine there again. That's the behavior I'm looking for in my rips as well, but I can't seem to create a rip which works exactly the same way as it does when watching the dvd directly in VLC. Which is what I find very odd, not sure how or why that's possible.

Well, that's a little different for me.
Yes, the problem is in the rip, not with the player or something else.
But I cant't confirm the effect that the delay of audio depends on play time. My rip seems o have a constant audio delay all over the movie length.
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Rainer