Do the various DVD rippers completely ignore the layer break

[CobraPilot]

Do the various DVD rippers completely ignore the layer break in the original, and thus always require the user to select a new one when using Imgburn? If so, is it possible to determine what the layer break was on the original?

[MOVIEGEEK]

Do the various DVD rippers completely ignore the layer break in the original, and thus always require the user to select a new one when using Imgburn? If so, is it possible to determine what the layer break was on the original?

(Forgive me if this seems like a hijack, but it wasn't covered in the OP's question and the subsequent answers and seemed like a missing piece of the layer-break puzzle in this enlightening thread.)

DVD Decrypter will maintain the layer break info if you rip in ISO mode and use the MDS file, in ImgBurn go to Write mode and select the MDS file as the source.

[jman98]

Do the various DVD rippers completely ignore the layer break in the original, and thus always require the user to select a new one when using Imgburn? If so, is it possible to determine what the layer break was on the original?

(Forgive me if this seems like a hijack, but it wasn't covered in the OP's question and the subsequent answers and seemed like a missing piece of the layer-break puzzle in this enlightening thread.)

215 posts and 5+ years here and you hijack? Next time just start a new thread. Every question does not HAVE to be related to some old thread. This is not the AVS forums.

[johns0]

I have split and moved this post to general discussions,please do not hijack old threads and make a new post next time.

[CobraPilot]

Mea culpa, jman98. I am suitably repentant, in sackcloth and ashes. As usual, you are right on top of things with helpful, poignant, and unnecessarily hostile comments. It must be SUCH a burden for you to monitor everyone and keep us striving for your perfection . . .

Thanks, johns0, for the simpler polite reminder and move.

Moviegeek: Thanks for the useful information. I haven't really tried to record to DL so far because disc cost is so much higher than SL. Seemed more prudent to shrink to SL. 'Bout ready to take the plunge.

Is DVD Decrypter the only one that maintains the layer break? It's getting harder to use it for newer encryptions, as has been noted many times.

[MOVIEGEEK]

All rippers have a setting in options that allow you to disable removal of the layer break, it's not a good idea though if you rip just the main movie. When burning DL ImgBurn will still ask you where you want the layer break.

[tinker]

I am not sure why do you want to keep original layer brake, but if you make 1:1 copy of disc and the disc is full, ImgBurn will, most likely, choose the same place, as there are complex rules for a layer brake to be in correct place.
If you delete anything from original full disc, than you will get more possibilities for a layer brake. That way you can choose the best place so you will not see the transition during play.

[CobraPilot]

As to why I might want to keep the original layer break, my thinking is that the original DL disc's layer break was already in a suitable place, so why would I want to mess with that for a 1:1 backup?

Valid? A mistaken assumption?

[tinker]

Your assumption is valid, but like MOVIEGEEK say, if you backup Movie only, than a layer brake will change, because most DVD burning software will try to put layer brake to split burn in half. With ImgBurn you still have a choice to set splitting point higher that half burn, if what you are burning does not require full DVD-DL capacity.
For 1:1 backup, your assumption is 100% correct.