thanks for the "reminder" ...

out of 12 consecutive bobbed frames (50fps) there is not a single clean frame:


Restoration filters like SRestore or Restore24 can't do anything here. Other filters can work with double blends, but here we have just a huge amount of consecutive blends. I'm pretty sure there is no solution to this.

It's a shame that the source is foobar.
I must admit that I am pretty satisfied with the quality tough. That interpolation really made the picture look much better.

Huge thanks for all your efforts, elguaxo! Whenever you need my help, feel free to ask.

RedVeil likes his

Fuck knows what you mean.

Hi everyone,

Started ripping again lately an everything went fine until this DVD came along with forced subs. I went through GK to see if there were any options for that but I couldn't find them. Then I went to Doom9 to read up on it. Alas, Doom9 only tells me how to rip, change or mux subtitles, not how to get rid of forced ones. Does anybody know a good way to make them disappear?

Any help would be appreciated!

No. It's much more complicated than removing a logo.

How did you rip the DVD? There should be on option in AnyDVD to remove the subtitles from the .VOB file.

Forced subs are sometimes "burned-in". I'm sure this is your problem, and as I said, it's very hard to remove "burned-in" subs.

OK, that propblem is "solved" then, I'll not be able to rip it. Thanks for the info.

Different DVD, different problem: the surface of the DVD is scratched. DVD Decrypter gives me an error and can't continue, same goes for AnyDVD. When I play the DVD in PowerDVD, it plays without problems until a few minues before the end, where it stutters (hangs for a second, then goes on). Any way how I can still rip the VOBs? VOB 1 and 2 are no problem, but in VOB 3 I'm getting the errors.

Again, any help would be appreciated!

Download new DVD.

You can't download hardware.



A few ideas:

1.) Did you check if DVD Decrypter and AnyDVD have any options to overlook damaged/bad sectors of the media?
2.) You could try to burn/copy the DVD and tell the burning tool to ignore bad sectors. I hope this is possible.
3.) Eventually (this should work for sure, but is the most work) if nothing helps, you could playback the DVD and capture it via S-Video cable and a capture card. I once tried that and there is nearly no quality loss. Let's hope your standalone (or even PowerDVD?) is capable of ignoring damaged media.

This has worked for me on an XBOX game... gently rub the scratch away with ''toothpaste''

This is a great tip. I have used it many many times! There is a nice youtube video that shows how to do it:



this is a more sophisticated procedure. I've never tried it:

Damn you people just when I was about to jabber about the toothpaste issue stuff

I'm gonna watch the guides and try it out. Thanks guys!

Mmm, the toothpaste didn't work. Guess I'll have to skip Spiders 2. Not that you'd miss a lot.

New problem, concerning DGIndex. I had to use force film on a previous rip, but now I want to rip a 25 fps PAL DVD and the Force Film is still ticked. How can I untick it? The only thing I found out was that I have to tick a different option. I chose Honor Pull Down Flags, is that the correct one?

Yes, that's the one. Have you tried some of my suggestions?

Yes, I tried.

1) I checked, but I can't find any options concerning this. My AnyDVD has notabley few options
2) I can't direct copy DVDs as I only have one drive. To copy DVDs and CDs I first rip them and then burn them. As ripping isn't [ossible with thi one, it's not an option.
3) I don't have an S-video cable and this all sounds like a lot of work for only one movie, which isn't even a really good one.

Thanks for the suggestions, but they aren't gonna work.

Glad to know Honor Pull Down Flags is correct

You could try to create an image from the scratched DVD.