Problem making DVDs

[MacTraderBoy]

I am trying to back up my son's copy of The Batman and Superman movie.

DVD Size: 3.28GB
Mac: Mac Mini: 1.5GHz Intel, 756MB ram
Ripping: Mac The Ripper 2.6.6
Burning: Toast 7.1.2

When the DVDs come out they are choppy and missing sound/video. Since the DVD is small enough, there is no compression.

How can I tell if it is the Ripping or the Burning that is causing the problems?

Anyone have any suggestions?

[rumplestiltskin]

Play the VIDEO_S folder that was ripped to your HD using DVD Player. Does it play well? If so, the ripping is fine.

Pick up a copy of Burnz to try the burning elsewhere. Burnz will burn whatever folder you drop onto it as a disc. So drop what would be the top-level folder (inside of which the VIDEO_TS folder resides) onto Burnz and then report back the results.

[lawnman]

What media are you using?

I would donate and get the newest beta version of MTR. Then I would invest in DVD2oneX for the newer DVDs.

[MacTraderBoy]

Does Burnz offer compression? Because Toast does once I get to bigger DVDs. I just wanted to start out with smaller ones and make sure it was all working before getting to anything larger.

[rumplestiltskin]

Burnz (http://www.thinkertons.com/) does not have any video processing capabilities; it just burns...and burns well. Set the format for HFS+ and it encompasses all other file systems (including UDF for DVD).

I've found Toast's Popcorn component (compression) for result in rather poor quality. I prefer to split movies that are too large for DVD5 rather than attempt compression. (Of course, if I'm transcoding to my iPod, there's plenty of compression!)

[term]

Hi - I also had some choppiness on the Godfather, but that might have been a poor disk. On the other hand, I tried a pristine copy of Pirates of the Carribean 2 last night and had no trouble copying the enitre disc to ISO using Ripit4me and DVD Decrypter, but the copy was fairly choppy. I did not use DVD shrink, but just copied to DVD.

Any clues? Do you think it will work better if I copy to VOBs?

thanks,
term

[AntnyMD]

Media media media.
Just get Verbatim discs and be done with it.

[term]

Really? Do you all think this is just a media problem? I have been using Memorex double layer and have been pretty happy, but maybe I will switch,

thnx,
term

[pixel zombie]

you really need a newer version of MTR as some of the newer movies are impossible to copy with the version that you're using...

[term]

just thought I would share this experience, since I think it verifies the comments about using the best media. I copied several movies (Batman Returns, Last Starfighter, others) to Memorex Dual LayerDisks. Almost all began to skip and hang - consistently about 30 min into the video - in my DVD players. On the other hand, they were perfect when played back on my computer. So I ripped MY DEFECTIVE BURNED COPY through DVD Shrink and burned to a 4.7 Imation DVD and got playable videos. True the visual quality was not as good as the original or dual layer, but at least a full movie without skips.

I wonder if anyone would recommend a double layer blank of quality? Does the Verbatim consistently work well?

thanks,
term

[rumplestiltskin]

DVD Shrink is awesome. The user interface is pretty darn nice for a Windows app. Wish it would run in OSX. I'll have to try it in Parallels and report back.