Pioneer A03 What can it do and NOT do???

[Roveer]

I'm presently ripping DVD's using DVD2SVCD onto 3 CDR's but would like to get a Pioneer A03 and rip to a single DVD disk. I don't really need all the extra stuff (subtitles, directors comments etc), just the basic movie.

Is this do-able with the A03? I've noticed that most VOB files after ripping are bigger in total than 4.7 gigs so I'm making an assumption that some form of encoding must be done???

How does this process work, and it it worth investing in an A03 at this time? I read they have copy protection circuitry built in?

Again, if you are doing DVD copies (backups) to a single DVD disk with an A03, please chime in and let me know if this is something that can be done.

Thanks,

Roveer

[chrishad95]

I have an A03 and the problem is that with dual-layer dvds they put all the stuff on the dvd together. So the subtitles and trailers and crap are all in the same set of vobs. The only luck I've had is with dvd's that are short enough and don't have a lot of stuff all packed onto them that everything in the VIDEO_TS directory is under 4.5 gb. (The real capacity of DVD-R -RW)

Using Nero Burning Rom I successfully copied one movie cuz the DVD was one of those 2-sided dvd's where they put all the non-important crap on the 2nd side/disc.

I almost thought I was going to successfully do a dvd-copy on The Crow but the files in the VIDEO-TS directory turned out to be 4.7 gb almost exact after ripping them off with smartripper (they were encrypted on the dvd of course)

Now, you could always:
Use smartripper to rip/decrypt/demacrovision the dvd onto your harddrive,
use dvd2avi and tmpgenc to encode them into dvd video,
giving you a huge mpeg file, then try to author that mpeg file onto a dvd using some kind of authoring software.

The main problem I have found is locating good, relatively inexpensive dvd authoring software. The A03 comes with Sonic MyDVD which absolutely sucks. I still haven't successfully encoded a mpeg2 video that it will accept without producing something that locks up my dvd player. And the only product i've had success with, SpruceUp DVD got bought out by Apple and they don't support it anymore, at least not for windows.

Chris.