DVDfab 12 -- 2-Sided DVDs - How to RIP into a single .MKV file?

bearhntr

I have a rather large DVD and BR collection that I am trying to rip as I am moving to a Home Theatre (PLEX) system. I have tried HANDBRAKE, MAKEMKV, WinXDVD and a few others. I am not having much luck. One gives me a decent file size, but the picture is CRAPPY. The other produces files with no sound. Another will not properly pull out the SubTitles and put in the .MKV file (which is what I am wanting to use - still deciding on h.264 and h.265). Many of my DVDs are on either a 2-sided DVD (one movie which spans 2 sides) or on 2 separate discs. I have been researching for days on how to make them ONE FILE - One of the searches pointed me to your product. I think I used this one a few years back when I was attempting to build a media server - them my mom got terminally ill (she passed last year) and I kinda put that project away.

I am following the steps here: https://mysolutions.tech/merge-dvd/ to merge them - I have ripped the DVDs to .ISO files so that I can mount them both. I get through the process with no problem. It does the task - says complete. I click on the ICON to go to the folder where it says it was saved....I can see a SUB-FOLDER was created....but there is nothing there at all.

I am still using the TRIAL version - as I am not going to buy it - unless I can do what I want, not only with these - but my other movies too. I do not care if there is a watermark at first...as I can re-do these, with a REGISTERED version if this works.

My system is Windows 10 PRO with 16GB RAM, Core i5-9400 (2.9GHz) and 2-500GB SSDs. It is super fast and your product sees that INTEL GPU ACCEL is there and it is using it.

I am no idiot - but with this...I am dumbfounded. Please Help

signals

The way I did this with the Schlinder’s List DVD was to copy side 2 of the disc to a folder and then use Merge mode in the Copy module to merge it with side one. You can then run the merged content through Ripper.

bearhntr

Elaborate please. The instructions I was using was supposed to do that. I have both sides of the DVD ripped to an .ISO. I then mount them as Drive G: and Drive H: DVDFab sees them and I then used the RIPPER >> MERGE and chose both discs. It acts like it is going to work - then blows up. I have tried 5 times and it goes BOOM every time.

tbrown25

The process that SIGNALS uses does work, however, unless there has been a recent mod to the software, you are limited to only 1 audio track being merged. If you select 2 audio tracks for inclusion in the final file, you wind up with 1 merged track and then 2 more tracks listed, the second track from file one and the second track from file 2 for a total of 3.

If you only want one audio track in the final (merged) file, this is a good way to do it.

Also, if my memory still works, I believe you cannot use the MKV passthru profile when doing this as DVDFAB must re-encode the files.

If you want more than one, there is a solution, but I am not sure I am allowed to post that procedure as it involves using a free 3rd party tool as well as the DVDFAB software.

bearhntr

I have tried 3 more times to RIP >> MERGE - 2 mounted ISOs for the DVD (side1 & side 2). It BLOWS UP every time.

Mona

I have tried 3 more times to RIP >> MERGE - 2 mounted ISOs for the DVD (side1 & side 2). It BLOWS UP every time.
bearhntr

Please do not use virtual drive to mount the two ISOs but drag and drop them to DVDFab Ripper to merge and to see the result.
We will also need the latest dvdfab_internal log file and fabcheck_internal log file to help check it out.

You can also refer to this post to send us the log files via DVDFab program and then post the feedback ID here: DVDFab Forum - Log Files Help Our Developers Troubleshoot Your Problems Quickly

bearhntr

Mona,

Thank you for the reply. I have tried 4 or 5 different ways to do this. I am following the steps here: https://mysolutions.tech/merge-dvd/ to merge them - I have ripped the DVDs to .ISO files so that I can mount them both. I get through the process with no problem. It does the task - says complete. I click on the ICON to go to the folder where it says it was saved....I can see a SUB-FOLDER was created....but there is nothing there at all.

I have tried multiple ways to do this (meaning MOUNTING an .ISO) - just tried your way of OPENING the .ISO instead of mounting.

Same RESULT as above. It processes (I get the chime that it is done - in about 20 seconds) and the FOLDER IS EMPTY.

I either get an ERROR and the DVDFab blows up - or it processes and NOTHING IS CREATED (except a folder).

signals

The steps you are following are not from a DVDFab official site. Follow what Mona or I suggested and it will work every time. Do not mount the iso files with a virtual drive, in fact it works better with folder Sources.

bearhntr

Signals -- I have tried it your way and Mona's way. Both yield the same thing. It begins the MERGE and then within 35-60 seconds - I get the COMPLETION BELL - and shows SUCCESFUL in the Task Monitor. When I click the ICON to go to the folder where the file was to be placed.....NOTHING THERE. I have tried this 3-4 times. I get the same result every time.

I stopped using the MOUTED .ISO files, and dragged them into DVDFab - it sees them and the movie, use MERGE and it says successful - but no file in the OUTPUT FOLDER.

I even used your method - and same result. No Output file....even though the TASK MONITOR shows successful.

signals

I will try to duplicate what you are seeing,

StanDiego

I have tried 3 more times to RIP >> MERGE - 2 mounted ISOs for the DVD (side1 & side 2). It BLOWS UP every time.
bearhntr

Same here. I've spent 10 hours over the past two days trying to merge a two-disc commercial movie into one with no success. Separately, the two parts play perfectly but they won't merge any way, either by mkvs, MP4s, VOBs or ISOs. Using VOBs, the end result is it has a time length of part 1. Using ISOs, it crashes. I love DVDFAB but merge is a complete fail in my experience. FWIW, logs were successfully automatically forwarded each time it crashed.