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Question. I am about to start making... ahem... back ups of my DVD's using my new burner. Will the new DVD's have any problem playing on my DVD player deck? How about any degredation?

I will use either DVD Shrink or Roxio to copy them.

If you know your DVD type and model?

Check it here http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdplayers

See if DVD-r +/- are supported on your player?

Ok, supposedly mine supports all. I have only one DVD drive however, so do I rip the files onto my PC and then burn them onto a blank disk? I'm having problems doing it.

Superman wrote:Ok, supposedly mine supports all. I have only one DVD drive however, so do I rip the files onto my PC and then burn them onto a blank disk? I'm having problems doing it.

When you rip a dvd you get a bunch of *.vob files, burn those with nero6 works great for me

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Yeah, you can use DVD Shrink or DVD X Copy to rip the files and recompress them into something that'll fit on a single-layer disc, and then use your favorite burning program to burn it (usually by copying all of the created files intot the VIDEO_TS directory of the DVD).

What you need is a copy of DVD Decrypter. Does it all in one package, and its FREE.

(btw, Roxio = teh suck)

Vertigo1 wrote:What you need is a copy of DVD Decrypter. Does it all in one package, and its FREE.

DVD Decryptor doesn't do a shrink job, AFAIK.

(btw, Roxio = teh suck)

Yes, but he might have gotten it for free.

I use DVD Decryptor, then burn with Nero.

Woot! Thanks...

Note, DVD Xcopy having legal issue, no longer selling their ripper IIRC. There's plenty of substitues though, some DVD's you will have problems with so I recommend vobedit to tweak those troublesome dvds.

Actually, the problem that I am having is that I can rip DVD's, but then the files are too large to burn. I read a tutorial on how to split the disk or whatever, but it's complicated.

There's a few programs that will split it for you or you can re-encode the files yourself to fit them on one dvd (lesser quality), the easiest route.

I found one program that will do it, but it's like 100 bucks...

Superman, use DVDShrink.

phongn wrote:

Vertigo1 wrote:What you need is a copy of DVD Decrypter. Does it all in one package, and its FREE.

DVD Decryptor doesn't do a shrink job, AFAIK.

Wanna bet?

Go to IFO mode and then pick what you don't want included.

IFO mode won't help you if the section you want is greater than ~4.5GB.

Right. I have DVD Shrink, but the DVD I want to copy is too large. It's more than 4.5 and I can't see how DVD shrink can fix it.

Superman wrote:Right. I have DVD Shrink, but the DVD I want to copy is too large. It's more than 4.5 and I can't see how DVD shrink can fix it.

DVD Shrink should be able to strip out data from the MPEG2 stream so that you can make a 9GB DVD into something smaller.