Need 2 Make "Autoplay" DVDs for car (w/CCE)

[tonemgub]

I'm a long-time simple DVD Shrink user, who never could figure out the more complex tools.

Now, I have a real need to burn DVDs to "autoplay" -- so that when we pop them into the player in the Car, we don't have to limbo into the back seat to play them!

I'd like to use CCE (cinemacraft encoder) and be able to just drag-and-drop the main movie to a "do it" window, like DVD Shrink lets you do.

Any advice on what tools and "how to"? Is there a term for these "autoplay DVDs"?

Thanks!

[motors4fun]

The best thing you could do for the car is to use Shrink in re author mode. Just drag ove the main movie and then shrink as nessessary.
you pop the disc in your car and it will immediatly play the movie.

hope this helps

[tonemgub]

But this doesn't allow me to use CCE

Unless there is some way to tell Shrink to use CCE???

Thx

[whitejremiah]

if your talking about taking a movie or something like that, or music videos or whatever..., that can be done fairly easily, just decrypt the original dvd (if nessacery) then you can author it with DVDLab....there's a way to make it autorun through there, im pretty sure (ive never actually done it myself though..i perfer menus and such)

[tonemgub]

Whitejremiah, will DVDLab allow me to use CCE?

[BJ_M]

what do you want to use CCE so bad for ?

CCE is an encoder only - you still have to author your disk and encode the audio in another app ..

in ANY authoring app you can make whatever you want first play and it will --- play ...

[BJ_M]

if you mean you have a back up disk you want to not have menus and jsut auto play from the begining of the movie - you can do that with shrink also ..

if you want to use CCE - you will have to reauthor the movie -- though there tools at the left that will use CCE to do this in a step or two ..

CCE SP is a 2000$ app -- waste of money for dvd backups , CCE basic or any of the other encoders is what you would be looking at ..

[ybeard]

But this doesn't allow me to use CCE

Unless there is some way to tell Shrink to use CCE???

Thx

Tell you what... Do like they said and use DVD Shrink in reauthor mode and drag the main movie only over there. Get rid of the foreign language tracks if there as well as subtitles you don't want. Go to Compression Settings and set it so it rips the movie in 100% or uncompressed mode. Don't worry about it if it says it is too big to fit on a DVD. Rip it to an ISO on your hard disk.

Get yourself ahold of DVD Rebuilder. Mount your newly created ISO of your movie on Alcohol 120%, Daemon Tools or whatever you like, just saving you a DVD by using a virtual drive. Use CCE as your encoder under DVD Rebuilder and let it encode. You can then rebuild the re-ripped image using Shrink, DVD Decrypter and then burn it. It isn't going to re-encode it the second time since DVD Rebuilder has already fit it to a DVD-5 format.

I do this all the time if the percentage of shrinkage is below a certain level and it works great.

[guns1inger]

If I am using DVD Rebuilder then I just write the file to the HDD, and not bother creating an ISO. Having to then mount it seems an unnecessary step.

[steptoe]

If you insist on using CCE to encode the video, assuming its bigger than a single DVD-R, you'll have to use DVD-RB as that fully supports CCE plus a few other freeware encoders that claim to be just as good, but take longer to encode. Yes, the final quality is much better than DVD Shrink which is why I assume you want to use CCE

If the movie will fit on a single DVD without using DVD-RB, just use DVD Shrink and DVD Decrypter to burn it. Just remove what audio tracks and subtitles you don't want

Have a look at this guide on my site, it will explain to you how to do what you are looking for, when using DVD Shrink

I'm looking into doing a simple guide on using DVD-RB Pro as its a complex bit of software that can do an awful lot, and changing some simple settings can screw up the final output if you don't understand what they really do

http://www.thescrapyard.org.uk/files/video/backup%20any%20dvd%20using%20dvd%20shrink%203.2.htm





There is a freeware version of DVD-RB, but for a measly donation of $10 you are better getting to Pro version which is updated more often

Also, I'm assuming you have either a full SP version of CCE or the basic version which allows a maximum of 2-passes



What you mean by auto-start after you insert the DVD will probably be movie only, as auto starting an episode disk would mean re-authoring it to tell the player to start playing the fisrt episode, then play the others after each one has finished.

TMPGenc DVD Author can easily do this, as I haven't used other authoring software much I can't comment on them, but I assume they will also

[steptoe]

Thats a very complicated way around using DVD Shrink and DVD-RB

I use DVD-RB Pro, its well worth the measly donation fee to get instant updates and features that are not in the freeware version

DVD-RB Pro will easily accept you're ripped movie or complete episode DVD, and you can remove all the unwanted audio and subitile tracks from within DVD-RB Pro, plus it will now create an ISO image for you and if you have DVD Decrypter on your system also burn the DVD for you, or create the DVD files to use with other DVD burning software, all in literally one click encoding, with much better quality than DVD Shrink can achieve


So instead of using DVD Shrink to remove all the extras, then create your files, then mount the image, then run DVD-RB on those files, just do it all from within DVD-RB Pro



Saying that though, I still use DVD Shrink to edit the start and end frames to remove the rubbish you get before and sometimes the end of the titles of movie only disks

[ybeard]

If I am using DVD Rebuilder then I just write the file to the HDD, and not bother creating an ISO. Having to then mount it seems an unnecessary step.

I mount it to make sure that it plays and was a good rip before I spend hours re-encoding it. It doesn't take me but a few minutes to create the ISO and mount it on average and I'm generally assured of having a properly authored DVD if it plays.

[tonemgub]

Guys, thanks for the help.

Looks like DVD-RB is the tool to use, and that a donation to DVD RB is well worth it. I'll look for guides to help me through that program (as it is just not quite so easy as dvd shrink).

[manono]

If you insist on using CCE to encode the video, assuming its bigger than a single DVD-R, you'll have to use DVD-RB as that fully supports CCE...

Baloney. You don't really mean to say that if you use CCE, you have to use it from within DVD-RB, do you? Not that DVD-RB isn't an excellent program suitable for relative novices, but it's certainly not required.