Music DVD Poll INXS - I'm Only Looking: The Best Of (2 Discs)

[paligap]

I believe this is the release I have (with Disc 1 having the main 5.1 (4.0) music on it.)

https://www.discogs.com/release/1109342-INXS-Im-Only-Looking-The-Best-Of

I'm pretty sure I used 'DVD Audio Extractor' but it's been ages ago I almost feel like I had to edit a lot of talk tracks out from the track list.

Looking at the files today on Audacity, looks like it was mastered kind of hot in the upper/mid-range to 14K.

Going with an 8 vote BTW!

Yes, do not use MKV, but do use DVDAE(DVD Audio Extractor)

Thanks to both of you, but I was hoping to rip the videos of the other songs on Disc 2. I was able to rip the videos of the ten live songs.

As for the "talk" tracks on both discs, I simply deleted the MKV and FLAC files of those before I tagged the remaining ones.

 

[marpow]

Thanks to both of you, but I was hoping to rip the videos of the other songs on Disc 2. I was able to rip the videos of the ten live songs.

As for the "talk" tracks on both discs, I simply deleted the MKV and FLAC files of those before I tagged the remaining ones.

You have me very curious as I never ripped disc 2. Reason: It's all kind of corny and vide0 and sound not that good, the 5.1 Disc 1 is great.
I am going to start with MKV first, ripping the 19 chapters DD 5.1 and the the DTS 5.0. Lets see what I come up with, if unsuccessful I'll go to DVDAE.

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

According to MakeMKV that particular 'DVD Disc Title' only has a file size of 1.9GB! What does Widows Explorer report about the disc size?

 

[marpow]

OK, here we have a MKV rip Disc 2-19 chapters 5.0 and 5.1, all you get from MKV is BEHIND THE SCENES-Interviews.
Now I will use DVDAE and see if I get anything different?

 

[marpow]

Unfortunately- My DVDAE Lic is not working with recent Windows 11 PC. So I cannot test. Sent a support ticket to DVDAE.
I am past a 30 day trial with DVDAE, so temporarily dead in the water with DVDAE.
Ah, Windows 11, why are you so difficult?
But I am a very persistent DEVIL.

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

@marpow

What does Widows Explorer report about the size of the disc?

 

[marpow]

The one video I showed with the gents sitting and talking is 1.75GB

 

[paligap]

According to MakeMKV that particular 'DVD Disc Title' only has a file size of 1.9GB! What does Widows Explorer report about the disc size?

It shows 6.21GB, so somehow, MakeMKV is not "seeing" the whole disc.

 

[paligap]

OK, here we have a MKV rip Disc 2-19 chapters 5.0 and 5.1, all you get from MKV is BEHIND THE SCENES-Interviews.
Now I will use DVDAE and see if I get anything different?
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I got the interviews AND the live tracks using MakeMKV.

Unfortunately- My DVDAE Lic is not working with recent Windows 11 PC. So I cannot test. Sent a support ticket to DVDAE.
I am past a 30 day trial with DVDAE, so temporarily dead in the water with DVDAE.
Ah, Windows 11, why are you so difficult?
But I am a very persistent DEVIL.

I was able to rip ALL the audio from Disc 2 using DVDAE, which I paid for some years ago. One thing I like about DVDAE is that, unlike MakeMKV, you can deselect individual tracks before ripping (in this case, all the behind the scenes stuff).

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

The one video I showed with the gents sitting and talking is 1.75GB

Indeed but Windows Explorer will tell you how much data is on the disc.

If there's a big discrepancy between what Windows Explorer reports and MakeMKV reports then you'll know there's a missing files issue.

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

It shows 6.21GB, so somehow, MakeMKV is not "seeing" the whole disc.

Thanks for confirming the info @paligap

 

[artwwweb]

I ripped this a few years ago and made these notes at the time:

Can skip the spoken intros if desired. Though the track indices are slightly out so cannot really just delete the intros.
MakeMKV reports this as 5.0 48/16 files, but the centre channel is silent. So it's really CD quality quad.
There are a lot of extras on the bonus disc but they are not in surround - they might be fake surround but after fairly extensive sampling I decided not to watch in full or keep the rips. It's great if you are a big INXS fan but it is not worth keeping for the surround - there is no surround on the bonus disc apart from occasional bits, probably upmixes.

So...
1: Has anybody else had trouble with the track indices? (I.e. the first 1s or so of the music is actually on the end of the intro). I have a vague memory that I would have split the full mkv using MMH and this had a bug early on which got the indices out of sync, so I have been meaning to go back and re-rip and split again. (Like I say, I did this rip/ split a few years ago.)
2: Agree, this basically quad (not a problem).
3: I must have managed to rip all of DVD2 - I would have been interested in the 12'' mixes. I did not play it all but heavily sampled bits and eventually decided it was fake surround, not worth listening to. So if you are only trying to rip DVD2 for the surround, don't bother.

Even with all the above, this is a worthwhile purchase - CD quality quad + SD videos for all their hits.

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

So...
1: Has anybody else had trouble with the track indices? (I.e. the first 1s or so of the music is actually on the end of the intro). I have a vague memory that I would have split the full mkv using MMH and this had a bug early on which got the indices out of sync, so I have been meaning to go back and re-rip and split again. (Like I say, I did this rip/ split a few years ago.)

This 2-disc set arrived this morning and so-far I've backed-up all 6.7GB (7,036,032KB) of disc 1. I've gone one step further and removed the introductory commentaries from all 25 videos and created a new mux of the videos with chapters. My next step it to name them all...

Edit: Naming done. The new .mkv mux with MPEG-2 video, Dolby Digital, DTS and LPCM audio along with named chapters is 5.12GB (5,373,715KB).

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

This 2-disc set arrived this morning and so-far I've backed-up all 6.7GB (7,036,032KB) of disc 1. I've gone one step further and removed the introductory commentaries from all 25 videos and created a new mux of the videos with chapters. My next step it to name them all...

I have managed to back-up all 6.2GB (6,509,696KB) of disc 2 using a combination of DVD Decrypter in IFO mode and MKVtoolNix. I don't think I'll spend any time splitting out the commentaries from the videos though!