What do you guys do?

[superjerman]

Since I got my DVD burner a couple days ago, I learnd a shit load of stuff about copying DVD's!! I know know its not as easy as copying a CD like most people think!

My question to all of you is, wht do you do when you have a DVD-9?

1. Use DVD X Copy and put it on 2 DVDR's? ( I would not mind doing this, but I have a DVD+R(W) and the DVD's are not cheap!

2. Rip the video from the DVD, reencode it and make it smaller and fit on i DVD-5... (No Menu or Bonus stuff)


I have read SO MANY GUIDES and I don't know which one to go by!

Just let me know what you guys think.. Thanks!

[johneboy]

its prob gonna be half and half..
its all really a matter of your personal preference.

Do you feel like getting up half way thru the movie to swap disks?
Do you want to lower the quality (sometimes) to fit the movie on one DVD-R?

Which would you rather do?



personally, i re-encode when needed.. im not gonna use 2 discs for one movie

[dilligaf]

I usually only keep the main movie, ac3 (& commentary) & English subtitles. So far I have been able to get all the dvd9's (70+) onto 1 dvdr with good quality. The method I use is in my sig.

[Vejita-sama]

If the main movie will fit on one DVD-R I use IFOEdit to strip it out and burn that. I HATE re-encoding and one of the main reasons I got the DVD-R was to avoid having to do so (otherwise I might was well kept making xSVCDs).

For movies that are bigger than 4.7gb I'll re-encode, but don't like it

[Doggiedaddy]

This is only for DVD9's that can not be reduced to a workable 4.7 (4.3 GB by ripping just the main movie or all of it if size willing, if so It is just a straight rip and burn with (DVDDecrypter), another good freeware program, or whatever program you prefer.
I have had great success with this method on DVD9to5. It is not all freeware but I have spent many nights and countless time on a lot of software and found this method flawless, if followed precisely, on each attempt. You have to decide for your self what works for you time, cost quality,ect. I have made many, many copy's of my DVD's and no costers since I started using this process. None of this is my software nor do I have any affiliation with the software providers I just know it makes great DVD's and it is all still available unlike most of the guides I tried that get you half way through the process and then you find out some of the software or other necessary component does not exist any more or costs an arm and a leg. 8)

Not free but cheap

SmartRipper
DVD2AVI
TMPGEnc
Dazzle DVD Complete

New Dig's
http://www.dvd9to5.com

[Faustus]

Just movie and chapters here.

[musher70]

Just the main movie here also, sometimes we use dvd2dvr using
rempeg, but i hate putting chapters in...........

[crashbyte]

i think i wait for the DVD9-r and copy 1:1......

[JasonK]

The next step is blue ray, NOT DVD9. You can copy a whole DVD9 to a single.

You can already copy a full DVD9 to DVD5, many times without having to reencode a thing while keeping everything, and many times you just need to strip the extras to fit without reencoding. And if you do have to reencode, I suggest getting rid of as much as possible of the extras so you can encode in CCE or quality encoder at 4Mbs or higher. That's what I do, and the quality loss is minimized, although I can detect a slight loss on my HDTV and progressive DVD player.

Someone said they might as well have stuck with SVCD if they were going to have to reencode. Personally, I think that's s ridiculous statement. For one, SVCD means reencoding every DVD that you want to backup. And for SVCD, it means a MUCH lower bit rate. I never bothered with SVCD because of the poor quality. If you reencode your DVDs while staying around 4Mbs or higher, you will get excellent quality.

[Benzima]

What do I do?

Rule number 1, I never use compression.

I always check out the extras before I decide if I'll keep them.

If the entire DVD is less than 6 G, I'll seriously consider doing just the movie.

Anything over 6G, I'll keep everyting and put it on 2 DVD-Rs.

[JasonK]

6G isn't the magic number. If your DVD is over 4.3G or more after ripping out menus, extras, audio streams, and credits, you're going to have to reencode or split to 2 DVDs.

Note- All DVD video is compressed. Reecoding just compresses slightly more. I just did Phantom Menace, compressed to approx 4Mbs average bitrate on a single DVD, watching the last 1/2 hour of the original and my copy back to back on a HDTV. The results were outstanding, nearly identical.

[Benzima]

Maybe you misunderstood or I was unclear.

To elaborate, to me if a DVD has more than 6G total, that means it has at least 1.7G of stuff that won't fit onto 1 DVD-R. If I burn to 2 DVD-Rs, they'll be at least 66% full which I find acceptable. Less would be unacceptable. So to me, 6G is the magic number

[dc91gt]

Since I got my DVD burner a couple days ago, I learnd a shit load of stuff about copying DVD's!! I know know its not as easy as copying a CD like most people think!

My question to all of you is, wht do you do when you have a DVD-9?

1. Use DVD X Copy and put it on 2 DVDR's? ( I would not mind doing this, but I have a DVD+R(W) and the DVD's are not cheap!

2. Rip the video from the DVD, reencode it and make it smaller and fit on i DVD-5... (No Menu or Bonus stuff)


I have read SO MANY GUIDES and I don't know which one to go by!

Just let me know what you guys think.. Thanks!

I do this:


www.edamon.com/dvd/

-d

[Craig Tucker]

personally, i re-encode when needed.. im not gonna use 2 discs for one movie

The only film I have used 2 discs for is LOTR extended version, 3 1/2 hours, too much for one disc methinks.

[JasonK]

Benzima, OK, I can agree that you can't put 6 gig on a DVD, but that you can split it.

However, if the DVD was 5GIG after stripping menus, extras, audio tracks, you still could not fit to a single DVDR without reencoding, and your #1 rule was never to reencode. I used to say the same thing about reencoding, but with CCE, I get excellent quality if I can get the bitrate up around 4Mbs, and it's reasonably fast on my modest system.

[Haku]

Well ive just started doing dvd > dvdr myself.But to your question..

I just rip the video(.m2v)file,the DD 5.1 audio,and the chapters.Maybe a sub track if need,like in attack of the clones.

Then i author it in Ifoedit,and burn with record now max.

Cant be asked to keep the menus,extras and other crap,they just take up disc space.Cause if u have to re-encode to fit the movie on a dvdr u want the max amount of disc space u can get.If i like the film that much i'll just buy it,not like the films are that expensive unlike games.
Ive picked up alot of movies in sales for about £10.

I cant see the point in using dvdxcopy to split it to dvd dvdr's,the whole point of a dvd movie is so u dont ave to swap, well except lotr extended version like Craig Tucker said.

[crashbyte]

i think it's like you prefer, reencode to 1 disc or split on 2 discs.

like they do in Azia or China : split them on 2 DVDR5 and stick them with the backs together, then you have back 1 disc.

yep, seriousely, they do that there. There are so many illegal copys around that you even don't reconize them

But there is a person here in BELGIUM who has succesfull encoded a whole movie to 100 Mb, in DVD quality. :P it was in the newspapers

But the person wants to be anonymous, i wonder why

[JasonK]

If i like the film that much i'll just buy it,

You shouldn't be copying unless you ALREADY own it. It sounds to me like you just admitted to illegally copying DVDs that you dont' own.



[/quote]I cant see the point in using dvdxcopy to split it to dvd dvdr's,the whole point of a dvd movie is so u dont ave to swap,

Sorry, but the point of a DVD movie has nothing to do with not having to swap. Many DVDs are double sided or on 2 disks, and many of us have changers. That's not nearly as disruptive as having to go to the bathroom or answering a phone. It's ridiculous to make a big deal out of using 2 discs. It only costs an extra 80cents, and is the only way to keep your original quality on a DVD9 disc that won't fit on a DVDR after stripping away all the menus, extras, audio, and credits. .

I WOULD MUCH rather switch discs than have to reencode to an unacceptable bitrate. 4Mb/s is ok. I'll try stripping everything but the main movie before I consider reencoding though.