Brand new to all of this and haven't got a clue. I have managed to copy the smaller discs but I have not yet done anything larger. PLease Help!!
Why do you always feel the need to be so abrupt and such a smart ass?? Looking through the endless feeds, I see people apologising for asking question's and a strong hint of sarcasm in your responses "Sigh". There are a lot more co-operative people online, I will look elsewhere for help....I don't need some arrogant clown making a mockery of my Questions!! Shove IT!
I try to be helpful and answer to people as well as I can, but as I go through several hundred posts a day, I ultimately get fed up with people who wont bother making the effort to find the answers that are already in the forums -- we've spent hours and hours of writing guides and FAQs, so people can find the answers quickly, built forums that are relatively easy to find messages, etc. And even so, we get 10-50 messages a day asking questions that have been answered several times, covered in FAQs and in our guides. I categorize myself as a total bumhole and I really show it when I'm tired of answering the same questions. If you feel that you find your answers from somewhere else, feel free. I know that myself and my fellow admin, Ketola, probably piss off several users and we probably lose revenue from those users who don't then use our forums anymore. But that is our choice, not anyone else's -- the beauty using Net is that if you don't like a site, you go somewhere else. We didn't set this site up to lick other people's asses, we built this site, because we love digital video -- it is OUR site and that gives us total control to choose whatever attitude we want towards people who ask questions we feel are pointless. I don't post to other forums I don't have respect of what they're doing and tolerate the attitude they have in their forums -- it is their site and they are totally free to treat anyone however they want. Just my $0.02
I know and I really don't apologize it. But to reply to your original question: doom9 and IFOEdit's homepage have guides on how to do this, basically it requires stripping out unnecessary parts of the DVD (additional subs, audios, extras, etc). But as said, this same has been told in our FAQ as well.
RobBlack, Welcome to the movie burning community - This “Newbie Starter Recipe” is for the most part, is as a complete a package as anyone could wish It’s most outstanding plus factor, it only has 2 parts just 2. It's second great factor, the guides are picture-by-picture, step-by-step, easy-as-pie. We will start our dish with a main ingredient of DVD Shrink 3.0 Beta 5 – It's FREE, can do almost everything you could wish in as few as 3 steps - It will rip your movies (gets rid of that “pesky” copy write protection thingy ;-) in generally 20 to 30 minutes, it can be used for your smaller DVD-5’s and it also allows you to compress your larger DVD-9's to the necessary 4.36GB in order to insure a nice burn without encroaching onto the very edge of the disc. “But wait there’s MORE !!” For our friends with just a CD burner to work with, this compression thingy can be used to shrink all but your larger DVD-9’s to a size small enough to split and burn onto 2 CD’s in a mini-DVD format. (We’re talkin’ a pretty fair picture here because we’re still working with our VIDEO_TS BUP, VIDEO_TS IFO, and VIDEO_TS VOB files. ;-) Using CD’s now our cost is pennies a movie, how good is good ? One of the super good guys here on the forum named Afonic has put together a FANTASTIC, can’t be simpler, guide for you with the antsy CD burners to use and here it is: http://users.auth.gr/~ichatzim/minidvd.htm (Taking a second to grab a breath before shouting out, like that late night info-mercial announcer ;-)) “But wait there’s MORE !!” For those who like the backups “Their way” (a US colloquium, referring to a hamburger from Burger King) it also allows you to tailor your DVD’s. To keep in or remove menus, Director’s comments, extras and trailers (re-author) PLUS it provides you with a nice neat VIDEO_TS folder for you, perfect to have Nero version 6.0.0.23 burn for you. (Now it’s time to mix in the second and last part ;-) “OK” you say, wondering why the old guy is sayin’ “Nero 6”. It’s that mini-DVD thing I mentioned, it’s right there as a choice under the CD heading. That’s my reason why, for those who wish to burn CD’s that will play in 90% of the stand-alone DVD players and all Windows PC’s. I also feel that Nero is a top-notched burning program. Nero 5.5 is good if you’re not interested in mini-DVD’s or consider RecordNow Max ver.4.5 or CloneDVD both are excellent alternative choices. Actually, I use CloneDVD a lot, I like to watch the sheep animation but it doesn’t have that mini-DVD thing included – so that’s why I recommend Nero 6 as the second “must have” starter program. A complete DVDShrink program download and step-by-step guide can be downloaded from – http://www.chrismccann.co.uk/DVD_Shrink_v3_beta5.htm A 30 day, free, fully functional Nero 6 download can be had here: http://www.nero.com/us/631939541422774.php It's a powerful program, easy to use - Give it a quick try, you'll have a perfect burn this afternoon, really – Enjoy, “P”
