Hi Everyone, I've been reading these forums for a while and although I haven't made many posts so far I have gained a huge amount of knowledge from all of your questions and answers! I also know how hard it is to get started in this with no prior knowledge so I wanted to give something back to the people who helped me and help other newbies like myself. When I started off I was under the impression from reading peoples posts that the whole process of ripping the movie from a dvd9, re-encoding it into a dvd image and then burning it onto a dvd-r would take anything up to 17 hours!! I wasn't having any of that. But I have found the following method works perfectly every time. I have burned over 20 dvds now and i haven't had one mis-burn (coaster). All work fine on my pc dvd drive, laptop dvd drive, my 3 year old standalone player (Matsui DVD110), and IBM Thinkpad laptop DVD drives. Also has worked on friends I have lent them to. My DVD-R drive is nothing special... a Panasonic LFD311 (otherwise known as Matsushita). Software needed : SmartRipper Nero Burning Rom DVD2One All are available from kazaa ;-) latest versions recomended. Firstly, use SmartRipper to get the main feature off the DVD. This will probably take about 15 minutes depending on the speed of your drive... could be faster. Now the main files for the movie are on your harddisk. Open DVD2One. Create a new folder to put the processed movie into. Then in DVD2One select the source directory (the movie you have just ripped) and the target directory (the directory you have just created). Press Next and it will ask you to select a title. Select the longest on as this is probably the movie... often there will only be one choice. On the next screen you can choose which audio tracks and subtitle tracks you can include. I usually just include English AC-3 6 Channel (Dolby Digital 5.1). Remember the less included the less space it takes up. Press Next again and the processing will begin. Simple! DVD2One will make encode it in such a way that the final image will be exactly the right size to fit on a 4.7gb DVD-R (4.36gb). At first thought I wondered if this would compromise on quality but I soon found that this wasn't the case... playing the copy side by side with the original I could see no difference and the sound quality was identical. Usually the ripped movie is under 5gb anyway so very little if any compression is required. This stage usually takes around 30 minutes depending on your processor. The final stage is to burn the movie back onto a DVD-R. You can test it before on DVD software if you like. Load up PowerDVD (or whatever) and select 'Open DVD file on harddisk'. Then go to the processed directory and click on VIDEO_TS.IFO. This will show you exactly what will happen when you put the dvd into a player. Should just start playing the movie. Anyway, load up Nero and select New DVD Video. Then go to your processed directory and select all of the files in there. Drag them across to the VIDEO_TS directory on the new DVD. Note, that the AUDIO_TS directory is left empty (dunno why though!). Now you're ready to go... Burn Baby Burn! So there you have it.. perfect copy in just 2 hours. Try it out. If you've been having so far and this works for you then please let me know! Any feedback is welcome [bold]LiquidTX[/bold]
This is off topic. There is a DVD2one forum section. So this it not new... ! First of all DVD2one does not encode but compress. Second, it's also possible to keep the Menu and all the extra's with DVD2one (did it allready a few times). Third, it takes me about an hour. Thanks liquidts anyways...
