DVD2one problems

[ibanez78]

i just tried using dvd2one and it's not working, it creates my ifo and vob and bup file but the total size is like 40k, what am i doing wrong?

[budzrgood]

do you got just the demo cause that only does 30mins of the video.

[musher70]

did u rip a dvd?whaz the total file size??4-7 gigs>?
did ya create folders?did ya buy full vers?

[curryman]

i think you might be trying to do it straight from disc, instead of ripping first and it's only creating shortcuts to the vobs

[Super Warrior]

do you got just the demo cause that only does 30mins of the video.

I think that is crappy that they only allow 30 minutes to be encoded.I downloaded the demo and it seems like a nice enough program.

But it sucks that i can't test it out properly,by encodeing a whole movie and well as other testing.Like trying to do it with the menues intact,etc.In order to determine if this thing is truely worth $40.

[DTWells2k2]

This program is worth 40. Its great right now and he is making updates to make it even better. Just buy it.

[letgoofmyears]

Yeah, you need to rip it first. I had the exact same problem, but immediately went to the DVD2one forums and discovered my error. I'm sure that as good as this prog is already, in the future this may be possible, just not right now. But, yeah, totally worth the money.

[letgoofmyears]

Oh yeah, what's pretty amazing is the fact that both movies I've done so far had a total file size of 4.36 gigs. I don't know if this is just a coincidence or not, but if so, this prog is downright scary.

[Super Warrior]

Anyone know a good way to convert the entire DVD-Includeing extras.As well as keeping all the menues after?

[ibanez78]

i am ripping the movie first, but maybe i did something wronmg during the ripping process, i ripped the files to a folder, use that as the source, use another folder as the output, and chose the sound and subs and click go, i get the screen with the progress bar but it never moves, then in like 3 or 4 minutes it says complete

[DTWells2k2]

Star Warrior, check out doom9s guides. They have one for keeping everything, you are just going to sacrifice video quality. I believe this is what your looking for.

http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/maestro2.htm

[Ndb;-))]

i am ripping the movie first, but maybe i did something wronmg during the ripping process, i ripped the files to a folder, use that as the source, use another folder as the output, and chose the sound and subs and click go, i get the screen with the progress bar but it never moves, then in like 3 or 4 minutes it says complete

When you rip the DVD make sure you rip in FileMode so you get all the ifo's, bup's etc as DVD2One needs this extra info. Don't just use the normal rip film mode.

[Super Warrior]

Star Warrior, check out doom9s guides. They have one for keeping everything, you are just going to sacrifice video quality. I believe this is what your looking for.

http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/maestro2.htm

I was asking about retaining the menues with DVD2one.

[Ndb;-))]

Star Warrior,

DVD2One is only really for backing up the main movie, if you tried to fit it all on a DVD-R (extras and all) you would have one shit quality movie, after all the extras etc eat up the bitrate.

DTWells2k2 gave a perfect answer as you did not actually mension the word "DVD2One" in your post and loads of people post off topic on forums, so his answer was a good one.

[Super Warrior]

Star Warrior,

DVD2One is only really for backing up the main movie, if you tried to fit it all on a DVD-R (extras and all) you would have one shit quality movie, after all the extras etc eat up the bitrate.

DTWells2k2 gave a perfect answer as you did not actually mension the word "DVD2One" in your post and loads of people post off topic on forums, so his answer was a good one.

I doubt that highly.Many DVD movies these days go crazy and have bitrates of up to 4000-5000kbs.

While a Nice looking SVCD is around 2520kbs or less in bitrate.If all the movie&extra files were re-encoded to SVCD-type quality&file size.The resulting collection of movie files would probabley be able to fit onto a 4.7GB DVD-R easily.And still have Nice quality.

But thats all easy.The tricky thing is getting the crazy menues to work along with it....

[DTWells2k2]

Star Warrior, just use the link I posted. But you have to figure with a movie thats 8 gigs or so, it will only be about 60% bit-rate so it may turn out to look like an SVCD. You could probably do that with a movie around 6 gigs max and get it to still look good. Hopefully this guy releases an update that will do the whole movie and menus and all (and maybe some kind of option for the extras to be downsampled more so than the movie, but thats asking a bit much).

[defense]

I doubt that highly.Many DVD movies these days go crazy and have bitrates of up to 4000-5000kbs.

4-5k is a pretty low bitrate for DVD's. Most DVD bitrates are over 6k, and the more action packed films such as LOTR can go up to close to 9,000 kbps.

[Ndb;-))]

Star warrior,

While a Nice looking SVCD is around 2520kbs or less in bitrate.If all the movie&extra files were re-encoded to SVCD-type quality&file size.The resulting collection of movie files would probabley be able to fit onto a 4.7GB DVD-R easily.And still have Nice quality.

A Super Video CD is around half the resolution of a DVD, so of course it can get away with such a low bitrate, but we're talking about a transcoding device, not an MPEG encoder.

SVCD is not DVD Compliant even though you can make it work most times (but not 100% of the time) with a bit of playing around. Then again if your going to do this, you may as well go whole hog and turn to CCE/TMPGenc etc and the method DTWells2k2 gave you.

Why is it that people always want more before they realize what they have

[jopereira]

I doubt that highly.Many DVD movies these days go crazy and have bitrates of up to 4000-5000kbs.

4-5k is a pretty low bitrate for DVD's. Most DVD bitrates are over 6k, and the more action packed films such as LOTR can go up to close to 9,000 kbps.

CCE will make a good looking DVD with 4000-5000 Kbps. Other encoders could leave some quality out at this bitrate...
At 9000 Kbps even the worst encoder gives you good results.

I never did it but using D1 resolution 352x576(480) could give good results at a bitrate as low as 2000 Kbps.
I think the loss of quality using 720x576(480) @ 3000Kbps is greater than using D1 mode at the same bitrate. One loose resolution, but the video will not have artifacts (macroblocks) - better final image.

I have gained lots of quality encoding SVCD @ D1 resolution when bitrate were @ 1500 Kbps

[hshevitz]

I had the same problem right after I purchased the full program and was very aggravated. It didn't take me long to discover it was the fault of the ripping process. I tried a couple of programs to rip...SmartRipper and DVD Decryptor. Both ripped just fine but the SmartRipper files gave me that "non-processing" problem with DVD2One. The files ripped with DVD Dycryptor worked just fine.

I'm sure it's just a matter of settings, but I'm not a real pro when it comes to backing up my DVD's and was looking for the fastest method with the best results.

Here's my simple method:

1. DVD Decryptor
2. DVD2One
3. Nero to burn

Works good for me!

[Ndb;-))]

I used SmartRipper without any probs, but you must rip in file mode to keep the ifo files etc, not like ripping for divx i.e. just the vob's.

I have not use DVD Decrypter, maybe it defaults to file mode, as it does a lot more than SmartRipper does i.e. disk burning etc.

[ibanez78]

hi everyone, i was using it wrong, i was using just the vob's, i always used smartripper and just ripped the movie, now i do all the files and it's works great, did a movie last night, took about 10 minutes for it to encode or whatever it does and i can't even tell it's a copy, and i kept the dts track which uses up more room and leaves less for video, a great program!