DVD-9 to DVD-5 With Original Menu

[XanaXManX]

Hello, I have downloaded a few ISO's and burned them to DVD's. They seem to have the original menu but non of the extras work. How is this done? I backup all of my DVD's with DVD2ONE and have no problems but would really like to have the real menu.

Thanks!

[vric]

this is the most popular question since i'm here (2 weeks) and still no real awnser..

So far, DVDShrink make this if you compress all the extra to still movie..

[thxkid]

newest verion of DVDF2ONE 1.11 has full disc option and it backups a complete copy of the original, DVDxCOPY does also but most will be split to 2 discs, at least DVD2ONE just transcodes to one disc just a little less quality.

[Vejita-sama]

There have been several answers (check the DVD Rip guides to the left). You have two basic choices:

1) Transcode: DVD2ONE, DVD9to5, DVDShrink, etc.

2) Re-author: Instant copy, or try this guide:
http://www.doom9.org/mpg/maestro2.htm

The transcoders are fast (normally 15-25min) but the quaility sucks (YMMV some find the quaility to be fine and many 'claim' they can't see a difference between the transcoded output and the original video). Re-encoding gives MUCH better quaility (esp if you use the above guide with CCE or TMPGenc) but takes time (3-8hrs depending of settings, filters, CPU, etc).

DVDShrink is freeware, you can d/load it from doom9.org

[GreyDeath]

Actually, Instantcopy does it too. I tested it with Star Trek DS9 Disc 1 and wanted to put 2 eps on 1 DVD at 100%. I thought it was just going to put the episodes on there, but when I played it, it started with the menu that's on the original dvd.

And yes, the only working buttons are ones that link to the 2 eps, none of the others work, they're selectable, but they don't do anything. Frankly, I thought it would freeze up my dvd player, but it didn't.

Now if there could be a way for Instantcopy to give an accurate reading on the transcoded filesize. I have a 5.35G movie and shrink it at %99.9, it gives me a final size of 4.15G

[txpharoah]

I've used DVDshrink on several discs.

Some I can tell are transcoded (re-encoded).

But surprising, some discs I can't tell. I ran a DVD5 backup of LOTR:EXT ed. discs 1 and 2, and I can't tell a difference. I removed the AC3-6channel and level 3 encode, and I can't tell. And I'm picky and do some of this for a living. I can't tell. At all. It was impressive to say the least.

I like it better than DVD2One, so far at least.