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Post #125031

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ADigitalMan
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The "ADigitalMan Special Editions" DVD Info and Feedback Thread (Released)
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Date created
23-Jul-2005, 12:31 AM
It would. I even tried something similar. A DVD needs to be muxed from a complete stream of video and audio (not getting into the issue of multiples). Subtitles too. It then breaks the giant file into 1GB chunks. After re-muxing, the split points didn't even match, as they were off by a frame, causing an aggravating jump in the middle of a shot elsewhere in the film if you just replaced the one VOB file with the original error. The change in the AC3 file caused that much difference. This is because AC3 is a compressed format, unlike WAV, so the file size is actually different because of a smidgeon of different audio, even though the time has not changed in the file.

Thus, unless DE knows a way to patch (I tried doing something like this using the technology for video game patching but it wasn't compatible with VOBs), the solution is to demux to elementary streams, replace the offending audio, and remux. And muxing alread-authored subtitle streams and menus is not just point-and-click.

The best solution is to get on the pyramid. That way somebody'll just mail you the fixed disc. For the few bucks you spend paying it foward, it becomes well worth the time.

If only Lucas took the same amount of pride in his product our green lightsabers and swapped music would have been fixed by him.