DVD Decrypter Rip & Burn: MD5 only?

[Sasha]

I originally started posting in the Newbie forum, but I think my activity is more closely aligned (and appropriate) to this forum.

I recently purchased Gillaigan's Island Season 1 box set and was sorry to learn that it is a double-sided offering. All of my television DVD's are in a 400-disk changer that does not support disk-flipping. As such, the convenience of a 400-disk changer is lost in cases of 'flipper' DVDs.

I figured that what I could do is use DVD Decrypter to rip each side (labelled 1A and 1B) to two ISOs files stored in separate folders. This went without a hitch. I then ran into problems trying to burn an extracted 'episode' due to some problem with the audio being incompatible with the DVD Writer's accompanying software (Ulead DVD Moviemaker 3).

I gave up on that approach and decided to use someone else's suggestion about using DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink. This morning I tried to use DVD Decrypter to burn the first ISO file (side 1A) but when I selected the ISO file I got a warning saying that I should have selected the MD5 file (also in the folder with the ISO). Then, I was informed that the ISO was too big, but I know its not.

The ISO file is only 3.18GB yet the MD5 file reports the ISO being +8GB. I tried again this time changing the file type from 'All Files' (or something like that) to 'ISO files' and got the same message leading to the same problem condition (3.18GB vs. +8GB).

I thought that maybe the MD5 file was potentially reading both sides during the original ripping process, but that cannot be as the 1B side ISO rip is a hair under 8GB--and the combined sides would have been around 11GB. So, as it stands I am stumped. Are MD5 files required to burn an ISO file in DVD Decrypter?

[BobK]

I don't think the mds file is required. Why not just delete it (or move it to another folder) and try to burn without it?

[blinky88]

A better way to achieve a good result is to use DVD Shrink to decrypt, re-author, encode to a single ISO image and shrink. Then use DVD Decrypter to burn that ISO image. An easy, user friendly 2 step approach .... be sure the drive receiving that image is formatted NTFS.

[Sasha]

BobK, testing that right now ...

[drjtech]

If you are doing a Read ISO/Write ISO to DVD+R DL then you must use the MDS file to ensure the layer change is correct. If you are doing a Write ISO to single layer media then the MDS file is optional.

From the DVD Decrypter release notes:

.5.4.0 Released: 21st March 2005
* Changed: Creation of an MDS file is now only 'forced' when ripping to a FAT32 drive (like how it was in 3.5.2.0), rather than when also ripping a DL disc. A warning has been added to the 'Create MDS File' option in the settings instead.

3.5.3.0 Released: 18th March 2005
* Changed: Loading ISO images when an MDS file exists no longer causes the program to tell the user to load the MDS file if the image is < 4,700,000,000 bytes in size.
* Changed: MDS file association is now on by default.

-drj

[Sasha]

Actually, I am doing a Read ISO/Write ISO to DVD-Rs. I moved the MD5 file and it burned without a hitch. I have NTFS filesystems and I also just updated DVD Decrypter.