What best for backup DVD's-Using Main movie & keeping me

[RimmeR]

I use IC7 and DVDfab at the moment, but according to Mr Bass's guide using IC to remove extras can cause incompatibiltity in set-tops.
I just want to keep the main movie but use the menus ie "play movie" and "scene selection"
Can anyone shed some light on this subject?
Thanks

[andkiich]

There is a tool called menuedit. this will allow you to de-active dead buttons that once went to the extras.

The other option is to use DVDXCOPY to rip the movie with all the extras, catch being, you put the extras to disc 2 and DVDXCOPY will create dummy extras files. There is a very well written guide on this site to do this.
http://www.dvdrhelp.com/forum/userguides/175347.php

[RimmeR]

What about the new version of DVDFAB??? anyone give it a go?
Thx

[ImaWeTodd]

I've been using the new version of DVDShrink. With it you can remove the subs and sound you don't want, and then shrink the xtras to stills.

As an example, I just looked a one I did that had 12 VTS besides the main movie. Using stills dropped these VTS from ~ 1 gig to about .16 gig.

This has got to be by far the quickest method. And before you say IC is much better quality, Shrink is a new version with new options. I haven't compared, but it would take well under 1 hr to try for free.

If you want to go the harder route, 2Cool has some really good guides with IFOEdit over at the doom9 forum.

-- Edit --

I just read that xcopy method that andkiich pointed out. Sounds like a great way to sqeeze the last bit out. It looks like you get an xtra 5% doing this over stills.