Making DVD back ups

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2004-03-19 02:53am

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.

Laird · Post by **Laird** » 2004-03-19 03:32am

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?

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2004-03-19 06:35am

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.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2004-03-19 06:58am

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

Linky just for you

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-03-19 10:33am

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).

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-03-21 02:31am

What you need is a copy of DVD Decrypter.

Does it all in one package, and its FREE.

(btw, Roxio = teh suck)

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-03-21 02:43am

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.

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-03-21 07:50am

I use DVD Decryptor, then burn with Nero.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2004-03-21 07:51am

Woot! Thanks...

Meest · Post by **Meest** » 2004-03-21 09:44am

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.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2004-03-21 09:52am

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.

Meest · Post by **Meest** » 2004-03-21 10:50am

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.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2004-03-21 10:53am

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

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-03-21 05:07pm

Superman, use DVDShrink.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-03-22 01:45am

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.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-03-22 01:47am

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

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2004-03-22 07:36am

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.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-03-22 11:21am

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.