Can't fast foward in a video

[zeo_max]

Hi. Here's the deal. I wanted to put DVD movies on my PS3 without using PS3video9, so that the quality would be the exact same of the DVD, no compression. It worked. I used DVDdecrypter to get the .VOB file, then changed the file extension to .mpg, and then used Red Kawa File Server to transfer the movie to my PS3. It was a 4.4 GB video, MPEG2 format. So, the PS3 recognized it, and it plays well, at full DVD quality, 720 x 480 resolution. All that is good, BUT,

Here's the problem :

I start to play the movie, and after 1 minute 16 seconds of playback, I cannot do fastfoward to the video. I press the fastfoward button (R2 or D-Pad) and it goes foward, but when I press play so that it continues to run normally, it returns me back to the instant at 1 minute 16 seconds. I've tried all the buttons available to move the video foward, but it always returns me to this instant, even if I press pause first. I used the "DISPLAY" button and apparently the PS3 thinks that the movie is only 1 minute 16 seconds long. The movie can be watched entirely, but if I press fast foward, I'm screwed. Back to the beginning.

BTW, the other smaller video files which I have (downloaded from the internet), of format MPEG1 and AVC, don't have this problem.

The movie which I ripped was the "Clerks" DVD.

I appreciate all of your help. Thanks.

[acidraven]

.vob and .mpg are not the same. I think your problem is that the first chapter break id at 1:16. you need to use a program to strip the extra info from the vob. A good program will be fairly fast because it is not re compressing the footage. On a quick search I found http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=VOB2MPG I don't know how usable it is but is a start. if that doesn't work, take a look at some of the other tools on videohelp.com there is allot of info there.

[zeo_max]

I read on some other forums that the .VOB file was essentially an MPEG2 file, and that I could just rename it to change the extension. Well at least there is a relationship between them because the PS3 recognized it as an MPEG2. But, I guess there are some side effects to doing that. I'll check out your link. Thanks.

[zeo_max]

I used the program from the link you gave me. It didn't work. Still has the same problem.

[acidraven]

Well I don't really know.What program did you rip it with to get the vob file, what settings or anything else did you play with.Have you tried to see if there is anything odd about the clerks DVD that causes problems with ripping. What dose your computer think of the VOB file when you try to play it with a program that can read vob's like VLC?
I do think it is some tagging/file info error, Check your Orgional DVD and hit the seen fast forward once and see where it is. I don't normally rip dvd's so I don't know what programs to use. All I can suggest is doing more research, I also have to say that right now this is a very small and slow moving forum so don't be afraid to look somewhere else. also trying to find out if it is a problem that happens on the computer as well as the PS3 would be a good start because if it happens other places then it is not a ps3 issue and most people will be more willing to put in there two cents if it is not a PS3 issue, sence not a lot of people have ps3's.

[zeo_max]

I've read in other forums about stripping some information from the file using IFOEdit. But my knowledge of video converting is limited, I don't know how to use IFOEdit or what information it is that I have to remove (though I guess it has to do with the chapter breaks, as you've said). And it's getting to the point where I don't know what I'm doing anymore.

Any insight on that ?

If not, do you know of any other methods to get good quality ripped DVD movies onto the PS3 ? I've used PS3video9, at MP4 SP 768 kbps, but the picture does get grainy after compressing it like that. And I've tried higher bitrates, but it would take more than 10 hours to complete the operation at bitrates such as 2048 kbps and 4096 kbps. Also, I set the resolution to 720x480, I'd like to know what the 0x0 preset resolution does.

Any thoughts ?

Thanks for all your help. You do a great service to everyone at these forums.

[acidraven]

the 0x0 is no change so normally the best option. (or at least that is my understanding). MP4 AVC is better than SP from what I have seen. yes there will be some information lost any time you convert a video.
As I said I don't rip dvd's so I don't know much about the process, the few I have ripped worked fine for me. and that was using DVD decrypter (a hard to find program these days) and a program that was the one I linked or one like it that made mpg files out of the vob.

have you looked at not the forums but tutorial sections of videohelp.com I know they have quite a few about ripping and converting there.

[cozdiver]

I don't have a solution to the FF problem but do appreciate the info about changing vob to mpg and PS3 will play it. Not knowing that I was converting them with Video9, waste of time huh. What I didn't understand was about the large gig movies you said you had. My ripped movies comprise several vob file, usually 4 or 5 each being no larger than 1 gig. Changing vob to mpg and transferring to PS3 would mean playing each file in order to watch the movie, right? ISO files would be one continuous file but don't follow vob movies in one file unless it's just a small movie.

I'm going to try playing a vob using PowerDVD and see if I can fast forward and will report back.

[cozdiver]

Ok, I tried to play the .mpg file after changing the extension from .vob but found out I don't have a player on my PC to do so. PowerDVD played a single vob file and it has a slider bar for FF. It worked using it to FF thru the file.

However, when I transferred the file with the mpg extension to the PS3 it said it could not play the file. To be specific, all I did was do a name change changing .vob to .mpg not .MPG (caps) or anything else. Is this what you did? I was surprised when it did not play. I was hoping it would so I could try the FF on the PS3, oh well. Hope you have an idea of what I did wrong. Hate that long conversion from vob to MPEG-4

[joker454]

Bumping this thread. I'm having the exact same problem as zeo_max. I have 5 movies that each started as multiple .ts files. I used NullPacketStripper on each to pack each movie into one.ts file. Then I use hdtv2mpeg on each of those .ts files to make a mpg file. Then I used Red Kawa to transfer them to my PS3. So far so good! I now have 5 large mpg files on my ps3, the smallest is 6gb, the largest is 15gb. I can play them and they play fine on the ps3, the quality looks good. Then I get the identical problem as above where I can't fast forward past a certain point, and if you try to fast forward it will jump the video back to a fixed location.

One thing I did notice is that the length it thinks the video is is incorrect. For example, one of the videos its well over one hour long, but the PS3 thinks its only 21 minutes 52 seconds. Fast forwarding works perfectly until you hit the 21 minute 52 second mark, then after that it will stop working and always snap you back to that location. I'm so close to getting this to all work, this seems to be my last hurdle. I've now downloaded dozens of programs and read through hundreds of forum posts over the last few days trying to resolve this but still with no luck. Any help appreciated!