Burning a DVD9 Movie onto one disk with NO video qualityloss

[Bc-Zero]

I'm backing up some of my more favorite movies, and I don't want to lose any video quality or sound quality. I have seen the special features over and over again and don't care if I don't get them in there, is there any way that I can burn a DVD9 onto a single disk *without* any Video or Audio quality loss. If not then there almost is no point in backing up a movie, if someone out there can help me it would be great.

Thanks.

[msstatebdfan]

Have you already taken out the foreign languages and if any director's comments and the subtitles as well?

Many DVD9s can fit on a single disk aftering taking all that crap out without needing any compression at all.

[adam]

If after removing all extra's and any unwanted audio streams and subs, the resulting files fit on a dvd-5, then yes the video and audio quality will be the same as the source DVD. If after stripping all of these things the movie is still too large than you would have to re-encode it in a lower bitrate so yes you will lose some quality. How much quality you lose depends on the bitrate of the source, which largely depends on the length of the movie.

There are plenty of guides on how to make a movie only DVD backup.

[Bc-Zero]

I've taken out as much as I can. I am using DVDXCOPY, is there a better program out there like DVD95ONE? Which one would you recommend. Thanks for the responses as well.

[dlb]

Both dvd95copy and dvd2one are good. DVD2ONE wins on the speed side, but I have not found any difference in quality.IC7 is also good but in my opinion takes too long.

dlb.

[Goldenaxe4000]

well well buy dvd rw 9 !

it cost 600 $

that is all !

u may also use dvd x copy or ifoedit or dvd2one

[RealaT]

well well buy dvd rw 9 !

it cost 600 $

Show me where I can get one of those, I think that's a good price for a DVD9 re-writer seeing as they don't exist

[Goldenaxe4000]

u may find one at
fuji site or hitachi or pioneer
nore ... it is like old LASER DISK
need to flip the disk in the middle of the movie

u may how ever use dvdshrink for dvd-r 4.7

[txpharoah]

DVD shrink is good to remove unwanted parts. And if it still won't fit, there are various levels to transcode. I used the Level1-3 just fine. Only on 4 do I really see a difference.

My LOTR discs was impressive. (FYI: That may not mean anything to you guys as strangers, but my colleagues know something is up when I'm impressed.)

And a DVD-9 RW? WTF? Do you guys even know what you're talking about? I don't think so. It's just a DVD5 on two sides. You can do the same thing in DVDXCopy and a normal DVD-R drives. They sell DVD-R dual-sided 9 discs all over the place (meritline, etc). Just use both sides and DVDXCopy.

[Faustus]

Actually it exist, but you dont even need one. If you notice on the other side of the copy protect slider there is a little knotch on the disk, cut this out and they burn DD just.... oh wait sorry thats old FLOPPY Stuff! your right it doesn't exist that I've seen, and I pay attention, I think the whole community would know the day a DVD9 Burner was anounced.

[nd4speed]

This works for me with most movies but the longer ones require some reencoding.

1. Use DVDxcopy 1.4 to rip only the main title leaving all extras off (if you want them it will be harder to make everything fit) and increase your split point as to create the largest file size for Disk 1.

2. When prompted to Burn go to your hard drive and rename the "DVDXCOPY" folder where the files were ripped to. Skip to Disc 2 and rip it after you have removed all the extras if you choose. Rename "DVDXCOPY" folder.

3. Use DVDshrink 1.03 to reauthor both the VIDEO_TS.ifo files you created from Disk 1 & 2 to seperate folders removing laguages, notes, subs,... and to crop off "Insert Disk 2" ,credits and intro (becareful not to crop intro into chapter 2 -i.e. movie "Signs" or chapt. 1 plays twice) .OR maybe re-encode to fit both, but I don't know if it works.

I open two dvdshrink windows to compare DVD output sizes to be less than or equal to 4.38GB. Sometimes you only have to reencode the second disk.

4. Go to the folder you where you DVDshrank disk 1 and look at the .VOB files. They usually look like this "VTS_01_1.VOB" then "VTS_01_2.VOB" and so on. Look for the highest numbered .vob file (usually like four or five but not always) and remember this number. Delete all the other files that are not .vob files.

5. Go to the folder where you DVDshrank disk 2. Rename all the .vob files to be numbered higher than the number you were to remember in step 4. Say the highest .vob from dvdshrank disk 1 was VTS_01_5.VOB then you would rename in sequential order the .vobs from disk 2 starting by renaming to VTS_01_6.VOB.

6. Move all the renamed .vobs from DVDshrank disk 2 to the folder containg the .vobs from dvdshrank disc 1. Can delete the leftover folder and files that are not .vob.

7. Open IFOedit v0.95 and select "Create IFOs". "1 PGC only". "Create chapter for each cell". Your Output stream is the .vob files you created. Check off "Same as Source". Hit "ok".

8. Use a software DVD player to check the chapters, playback, sync,... after ifoedit has finished.

9. Burn the files to DVD (in a folder named VIDEO_TS of course). I use NERO 5.5.10.7 in UDF/ISO mode with UDF 1.02 format, no multisession, and unchecked joilet and all ISO restrictions, ISO Level 1 , ISO 9660.

I have not tried including menus but someone said it can be done if you do not "reauthor" your files in DVDshrink, but previoulsy in a post there was a problem mentioned about freezing at the "Insert disc 2" prompt where the split would be.