Advanced DVD to DVD-R

[wizzy]

I want to backup a DVD but, i want to remove all the add's inside like a comorciale (sorry my english) and a warning logo etc.
the DVD is 4.3GB and can fit with no re-encoding but i want to remove all that BS arround.
any usefull guide for this?

[garryheather]

I'm not sure there is a guide as such, because different discs will yield different results, however titles like Die Another Day had a similar problem with the odd branching they employed with the extras.

What I would suggest is ripping the disc to your hard disc, and then load the VOB files into DVD2AVI.

Then you can preview the titles and see which CELL ID's are the affected ones - chances are they will have their own CELL ID, and you can strip those out with the VOB EXTRAS function in IFOedit.

Then just recalculate the VTS VECTORS and away you go. Probably !

(I use this method to get rid of trailers at the end of the movie, trailers and promos at the beginning of the move, studio credits if that's all it takes to make it fit without re-encoding etc).

[northcat_8]

I mentioned this in another thread but I can't remember which one, so....

After you have the DVD ripped. Go to any explorer window (My computer window will work) and click on the "tools" menu, then "folder options". When this opens there will be 4 tabs at the top, click on "file types", wait for the list to populate then scroll down to the VOB file. Click on the VOB to highlight it and then click the change button and browse for your DVD playing software (PowerDVD, WinDVD, etc). Click "OK" until it all closes. Now what we just did was we made PowerDVD or whichever program the default program for viewing that file extention.

Now go to the folder where you ripped the DVD to. and start clicking on VOB files to determine which ones you want to keep and which ones you want to get rid of. PowerDVD will popup and play just that VOB file just like Windows Media Player would popup and play an AVI or MPEG file when you double click it. When you find one that you don't want just delete it, make sure you watch it all the way through and be sure you want to delete it. Once you have just the VOB files you want. Go a head and delete the IFO and BUP files that were ripped so that your folder is just VOB files.

Next rename each VOB file like this:
VTS_01_1.VOB
VTS_01_2.VOB
and so on until you have renamed all your VOB files. Capitalization is important.

Once they are all renamed, open IFOedit, Get VTS sectors, Region Free it and save the new IFO files. If you are wanting to delete extra audio and subtitles, do that in IFO also before you make and save the new IFO files.

At this point you should be able to open PowerDVD and play the DVD from the folder and check to make sure it is OK. It should be but you never know.

If the DVD is OK, then Copy the VIDEO_TS folder that your DVD is in to the root directory of a drive. For example it has to be C:\VIDEO_TS

Now go to www.doom9.net and download IMGtools. If you don't have them already.

Open image tools and select the drive where your VIDEO_TS folder is and select "make image"

Once the image is made, burn the DVD out with your favorite image burning software. If you burn with nero then you probably don't need to do the IMGtools, you can just burn the VIDEO_TS folder. I always burn with image files and I always burn with Decrypter so that is my method.

But what you should now have is a DVD that is just the movie.

Now I should mention that there is another way to do it but it is a fairly involved process and you need to re-encode the VOB's and then crop them taking out what you don't want but really you can ditch quite a bit of warnings, ratings, credits the way I described. And you weren't interested in re-encoding anyway. Me either.

[garryheather]

That's OK if all the "extras" you want to remove have their own VOB files - not all do.

While that will work, I'm a great advocate of my earlier post and IFO edit - I tend to strip off any subtitles and audio streams I'm never going to use at the same time and my method allows that.

I have found a great many discs that have these rogue elements as seperate cells but only a small handful which have them as seperate VOB's. This could be a region issue, where they author the discs differently in the UK than they do where you are, but there is no reason to say they MUST have seperate VOB's, unless they change aspect ratio which is a no-no in the DVD Video specification. Let's just say the majority of R2 discs with these trailers, warnings etc will have them as seperate cells, not VOB's.

Don't get caught out !

[ImaWeTodd]

I want to backup a DVD but, i want to remove all the add's inside like a comorciale (sorry my english) and a warning logo etc.
the DVD is 4.3GB and can fit with no re-encoding but i want to remove all that BS arround.
any usefull guide for this?

If you only want the movie (no menus), try an IFOEdit movie only guide.

If you want to just skip the junk when you first play the movie (and everything is already fits on a dvdr), try this.