DVD structure of Pirates of the Caribbean.. ??

[jbenj01]

I'm trying to backup Pirates.. using CCE and retaining the menus and extras with some subs/languages stripped.. I opened main IFO file in IFOedit to have a look and yes, it's one of those Disney multi-PGC DVD's.

Can someone please explain why there are 58 PGC's for this movie/main movie IFO. The first is the movie with 17 chapters.. then 57 more PGC's, each a part of the movie all the way thru to the end.. ?? Some as little as 1 minute and others 8 minutes..

And how do i back this sucker up using CCE.. usually when i do mulit-PGC movies, I can never get proper DVD structure after re-encoding with CCE (then inserting authored VOB's back into original file structure).. all the links/menu buttons and chapters are all way off.. I kow it's due to the multi-PGC's but i've yet to get one of these backed up correctly..

[FulciLives]

I'm trying to backup Pirates.. using CCE and retaining the menus and extras with some subs/languages stripped.. I opened main IFO file in IFOedit to have a look and yes, it's one of those Disney multi-PGC DVD's.

Can someone please explain why there are 58 PGC's for this movie/main movie IFO. The first is the movie with 17 chapters.. then 57 more PGC's, each a part of the movie all the way thru to the end.. ?? Some as little as 1 minute and others 8 minutes..

And how do i back this sucker up using CCE.. usually when i do mulit-PGC movies, I can never get proper DVD structure after re-encoding with CCE (then inserting authored VOB's back into original file structure).. all the links/menu buttons and chapters are all way off.. I kow it's due to the multi-PGC's but i've yet to get one of these backed up correctly..

I know this is NOT the answer you are looking for but ... if you want to make your life easy on titles like this just use DVDFab which will split it out over 2 DVD discs. Yes it is on 2 discs which means more money and the need to switch partway through the movie but you will get 100% quality and 5-Disc DVD changers are rather cheap these days which makes the switch from DISC 1 to DISC 2 rather painless.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[Bodene]

Or just rip it, compress it, and edit out what u don't want with DVD Shrink, then burn it to ONE DVDr. No need to use all that other software or burn to multiple discs. What a pain that'd be.

[FulciLives]

Or just rip it, compress it, and edit out what u don't want with DVD Shrink, then burn it to ONE DVDr. No need to use all that other software or burn to multiple discs. What a pain that'd be.

Well since the original post mentioned using CCE to back-up one can infer from that that quality is a major convern to the person trying to back this up thus my suggestion of a simple alternative which is easy and keeps 100% quality.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[scout7]

I don't have gazillions of posts on this board nor am I an expert, but you might look around the board for similar post relating to POC. It is a real test to get a backup of it. DVD Shrink won't do it. CloneDVD will do it , but at a 47% compression. One guy mentioned removing all those sub chapters, don't know how that changes the backup though.

There seem to be many posts on this topic and much advice, little of which has been attempted by those giving the advice.
Just throwing out what you think might work is no help.
If anyone has a method that they have used sucessfully, post it.

[musotechy]

I am not 100% on this but isn't the extra files for animated chapter selection menues.

I have backed-up Pirates (movie only) using just DVDShrink and Nero. Burnt and plays fine.


Thanks

[Falco43]

I used "DVD Shrink" to make a backup of "POC R2" these are the settings after compression:
VIDEO: Auto 100% 3,777 MB
AUDIO: Ac3 6-ch English 451 MB
SUBPICTURE: English - Normal 5MB
English - Normal Captions 5 MB
Total File Size: 4,464 MB

Played back with no problems

[nwiant]

I used DVDXCOPY XPRESS and NERO and did not have one single problem...worked absolutely flawless.

[NightWing]

Deside to test on my copy. Tested with DVDDecriptor and DVD2one then to Nero 5.5. The only problem was disk 1 was a bit over so drop it from 4472 to 4372 I think. Fits and runs. Working on a total movie / extras / DVD-Rom backup also. Not finished yet.

[jbenj01]

Thanks to all.. But FulciLive is correct.. Keeping video quality is primary concern.. I've used DVD2One and IC to back it up, but VQ is unacceptable to me b/c I want to keep the DTS track, which is something like 750MB..very large..

I've finished using CCE and have kept menus, extras and the DD5.1 and DTS audio tracks.. Video quality is excellent but again, the damned chapter points/menu buttons are out of whack.. I used IFOupdate and selected "Maestro Mulit-PGC"--didn't work.. Then i tried "Adjusted Cell Mode".. but still didn't work.. aaaarrrrgh!! i think the problem is how i am importing the chapters into Maestro.. So i guess i need to post in the Authoring forum...

[kenshin himura]

im pretty sure if you check pgc from 32 till last one, they are all unneeded stuff (ie, previews). try getting rid of those and see what happens.

[troyvcd1]

I went the dvd2dvdr route with cce and dvdlab. Got no subtitles or menus but the movie plays back with 100% quality on one dvd.

[sminker]

I just used DVDShrink, deleted all the titles except the main one. Kept the audio i wanted, deleted all subtitles, removed the credits at the end and got a 87% compression. I cant tell the difference on my big screen.