Something odd at 2hours 10 minutes

[DadOfDude86]

I had some DVDs I made from camcorder recordings. Four of the DVDs are around 6hrs.

I used VLC to rip them on a Windows machine - went fine - most all of the windows-based video players can play all the way through the rips of 6hr DVDs

But a bunch of video players cannot play the rips past 2:10:

Stock Android cell phone players
Iphone players
Sony smart tv
Windows clip champ
and
trying to use VLC to clip the videos down to 2 hours - actually the first 2hrs can be sent to a .ts file in "MyVideos", but an attempt to do the next 2hrs fails, as it appears VLC stops recording at the 2:10 mark of the 6hr rip.

Any clues or workarounds would be greatly appreciated.

Jonathan

[Lotesdelere]

Try with a nightly build:
https://nightlies.videolan.org

More info:
https://wiki.videolan.org/Rip_a_DVD/

But ripping might be easier with Handbrake:
https://handbrake.fr

[DadOfDude86]

For whatever it is worth, both ffmpeg and MP4Tools also cannot "see" past 2:10. And Playstation 4 will not open them at all
I will try HandBrake.fr
Thanks

[DadOfDude86]

Handbrake was also a fail, but I learned something. So let me do the full story in detail.

Around 25 years ago, I transferred (probably using a video capture card) camcorder tapes to a computer and then to DVDs

The DVDs range from around 2 hours to 6 hours in length. It now appears to me that the DVDs have many "chapters", but that the "titles"
information is missing/defective. And I believe that the bad titles are the cause of the following behavior:

I ripped the DVDs to .mp4 files using vlc, and the resulting mp4 files are the right length, and can be played in their entirety on Windows machines
using VLC or Media player. I tried ripping a DVD using Handbrake, but it thinks there is only one title with 6 chapters, and that title is 2 hours 10 minutes
in length.

And the VLC rips look - to many pieces of software - like a 2 hour and 10 minute title with nothing else. Here "many pieces of software" includes
stock Android cell phone players
iphone
Sony Bravia Smart TV
Windows ClipChamp
ffmpeg
MP4Tools

and - for what its worth - a Playstation 4 doesn't like any of the .mp4 files I have created

I do not see any settings in VLC or Handbrake to work around this, but if there are any, I would love to hear about it.

Thanks in advance

Jonathan

[DadOfDude86]

I have figured out what is going on and all the above is not particularly accurate.

For the sake of the record, I will add a new post "Issue with VLC ripping private DVDs with more than 2 hours of content"