Thread: weird rip problem?

i was ripping a DVD today using mac the ripper and somehow, instead of getting a series of VOB files in the VIDEO_TS file, i ended up with one 7GB VOB file. not sure how that happened or why. Is this still a good rip? i can playback in VLC, but just had never seen this before, so thought i would ask on here about it.

I believe VOB files greater than 1 GB would be a compatibility issue for some DVD players (the regular, consumer electronic device kind + possibly some computer software.)

Files greater than 2 GB are not supported by some common filesystems (ie windows FAT32).

But these may never be issues for you. If your only playback scenario is VLC on Mac, and that's working for you as is, then you're fine.

I'm not familiar with mac the ripper but I'd guess there's a setting somewhere to specify whether VOB files are combined or held to a maximum size.

thanks. it works for me, but its a DVD i am trying to up, so i will check my settings and try to re-rip.

maybe you not setting your rip to have chapters so its reading as one file look for setting for chapters I myself am not familiar with mac the ripper but thats how I do it with convert X

i think it got sorted out. seems like i had some weird settings checked off that i didn't realize as i tried it again and it seems to be coming through ok.

If you want a lower size rip change the video properties like fps,resolution or audio bitrate..u would get small but lower sized rip......if you want quality for.vob..it would be a large file

it wasn't a size problem, just a format problem. I was doing a straight DVDR rip to VIDEO_TS folders so there was no compressing or anything.....

Im not to familiar with mac the ripper as i use slysoft but it sounds like you have the setting on dvd9 instead of dvd5 which should give you the right size to burn to a dvd-r