Dual layer movie only, layer break question

[AND1]

Hi, I have a DVD Fight Club and want to back it up onto a Verbatim DL disc. The original disc is almost 8 GB and the movie is around 6.7 GB.

I want to put ONLY the movie on the dual layer disc. My question is DVD Shrink has the option to remove or leave the layer break. What's the best way to place a movie ONLY on a Dual Layer disc? Can I decide where to place it or is it done automatically?

I'd like to have it change at the end of a chapter instead of during a scene.

[guns1inger]

For best results you should use DVD Decrypter and do a simple ISO->Read, ISO-Write. This will remove all the restrictions, so you can skip the intros and menus etc., but keep the layer break where it is. It will all fit on a DL disc anyway.

There are erstrictions to the placement of the layer break on (re)writable disks which may restrict you from placing it where you please.

If you must strip it down to movie only, I would suggest you then use a DL aware authoring program to create new chapters and to place the layer break where you think it works best.

[Seeker47]

If you must strip it down to movie only, I would suggest you then use a DL aware authoring program to create new chapters and to place the layer break where you think it works best.

Being still mostly untutored in this, I have long wondered about the purpose of the "Remove Layer Break" option in Shrink, as well as the pros & cons. (I frequently left that option checked, without a bad result, so far as I could see.) Presumably this was only intended for use in having the movie go onto DVD5 ? If you needed a DL for length reasons, this would probably be a bad idea -- right ?

[guns1inger]

Once you strip down the structure to movie only, the original layer break becomes wortless. Because of the way writeable DL DVDs are burned, a whole new layer break piont must be calculated and created.