Handbrake stopping halfway through TV episode.
December 5, 2015 6:35 PM   Subscribe

I've tried to rip an mp4 of an episode of Wire in the Blood (Season 1 Disc 3 : Justice Painted Blind) from an immaculate disc on my iMac using the lastest Handbrake. It only rips the first part (48:35) then stops.

Of the three titles in Handbrake (and visible in Mac's DVD Player), the first and third are only a few minutes and Title 2 is the full 1:35 minutes.

*I've tried it straight from DVD.
*I've tried it after ripping the DVD to a Video_TS and then from my computer instead of straight from the DVD.
*I've tried doing specific title (2) which is the correct title based both on Handbrake and Mac's DVD Player title check...as well as the fact that the other two are under 2 minutes long.
*I've tried reinstalling Handbrake and doing all the above things again. It makes a fine disc image in toast and plays both parts perfectly on the Mac DVD Player but fails to rip the full length of the episode regardless.
I've heard of folks having trouble with movies ripping but dropping the ending. TVDB lists the 1:35 as originally two episodes, and the file that results from Handbrake no matter the length is indeed only the first part, or episode 1. When in any DVD player the episode is show as having two parts if one wanted to jump from one to the next so am wondering if there is anything else to try so Handbrake will recognize? BTW, I also tried another inferior program that rips to mkv or mp4 and it only ripped the first 48:35 min, too. I've been using Handbrake for years (newest builds) and never had this problem. I got the dvd in 2006, I think...so it isn't a new technology issue per the DVD.
posted by chicaboom to Computers & Internet (8 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Response by poster: I apologize for the confusing use of the word "episode". It merges the 2-part airing and sees it as 1 long file. I hope you can glean what I am trying to describe. I don't care if I have to rip it as two separate files (or the long preferred file)..I just want to get all of it....and now that I checked, it did this on a previous disc of Wire in the Blood as well. Sigh...
posted by chicaboom at 6:39 PM on December 5, 2015


One common form of copy protection is to do really strange things to the disk's directory structure. If this were a PC then the solution would be to go buy a copy of AnyDVD HD, a general purpose copy-protection-remover, but Slysoft don't make a MAC version. (Presumably there are equivalent products for the Mac.)
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 7:06 PM on December 5, 2015


Response by poster: I've ripped over 500 hundred of my dvds to play via Plex or on tablet and this is the first time in my 7 years this has happened. Doesn't mean it can't be but it seems really odd.
posted by chicaboom at 7:13 PM on December 5, 2015


The same happened to me for one movie DVD. When testing it in DVD Player (I'm on a Mac as well), it skipped over damaged parts. Perhaps that certain sector of the DVD is damaged, so HandBrake just does a hard stop?
posted by dubious_dude at 9:00 PM on December 5, 2015


Response by poster: Maybe so..it is immaculate (new..played once in 2006 or so) and rips a perfectly good dvd when mounted. Ah well...
posted by chicaboom at 9:31 PM on December 5, 2015


It's not free but I've had good luck with using RipIt. I can't remember if it has a trial period but if it does and you only need it for this one DVD then it may be an option.
posted by eatcake at 3:56 AM on December 6, 2015


Best answer: I've had this happen with newer versions of Handbrake. For some reason older versions work fine. Try 0.7.1. (Just Googled quickly, can't vouch for this website)
posted by starman at 6:46 AM on December 6, 2015 [1 favorite]


Response by poster: Thanks..the older Handbrake version finally is what worked.
posted by chicaboom at 9:25 AM on December 6, 2015


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