Help needed bad!

[aMaZed]

Heres the problem, i have 20 movie DVDS on my PC which i ripped with smart ripper i wanted to burn them all of because i am having problems with my PC so i got DVD shrink to shrink them so i could fit em on one cd but then it gave me a hole lot of problems it cant locate files and error cant go any further with this operation and $hit so i cant use that then i atleast wanted to take the copyright bs out of the DVDS so i could burn them to DVDR'S i got dvd decyrpter and the program only works if the movies are still on cd..and not on your hard drive so thats why i am here i am pretty screwed there has to be another way of doing this what i need is another shrinking program so i can fix up the rips on my hard drive and i need a copy right remover any one with any information or any links or programs you know which can help me please post them!

Thank you all for your help!

[tsantsa]

First - There is a saying that hacking communities often use, and I will quote that here: READ READ READ. There are many guides and tutorials present on this site, use them Jedi, use them well.

Second - This belongs in the Newbie Forum I think.

Not trying to be a d1ck, but you gotta get hazed a little! :P

[Timmychuck]

When you rip a dvd to your hard drive it takes off the copyright

[aMaZed]

Lol sorry for not reading guides, just i have a short time left on this PC and i need to burn them ASAP and i thought i could get a faster answer if i posted on the forums.

[aMaZed]

Lol sorry for not reading guides, just i have a short time left on this PC and i need to burn them ASAP and i thought i could get a faster answer if i posted on the forums.

I load up the movie to NERO and i set it all up for the burn i am about to press the "burn" botton and its disabled? any ideas, i thought it was because of the stupid copyright

[Timmychuck]

Did you trancode your movie at all?

[aMaZed]

Did you trancode your movie at all?

Trancode i'm still a newb so explain what that means?

[tsantsa]

Did you trancode your movie at all?

Trancode i'm still a newb so explain what that means?

LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good gawd man, you need to READ!

[aMaZed]

Did you trancode your movie at all?

Trancode i'm still a newb so explain what that means?

LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good gawd man, you need to READ!

Go easy on me man We all gotta start somewhere. :P

[overloaded_ide]

I been gone awhile, posting this and heading back out.
Hello to any friends, I will return again soon, just busy!

As for the post,
First if you have the DVDs just start over and if not, well you should have, your not pirating RIGHT!

Either from hardrive or DVD, DVD shrink 3 should work just fine! I use it for everything and never had a problem. Even when I master my own DVD's to the hard drive and they are to large, I can still shrink them to fit a dvd R with shrink! Look for guides for exact details if you need to.
Basically just show shrink where the files are, DVD drive or hard drive and let it do the work, then they should end up the correct size.

If shrink ain't working for you, have you checked for file problems? System problems? And I think you mean "copy protection" not "copy right"
Copy protection is what stops you from burning copies, copy rights just say hey joe smoe owns the rights to this. I have many copy rights myself, but I don't copy protect anything.

[Timmychuck]

You need to trancode so it will fit on a dvd


You said you have DVD shrink thats a trancoder

Try this guide http://www.dvdshrink.info/reauthor_basic.php

[aMaZed]

Thanks alot guys i'll try the ideas you gave me but if any one else has any ideas just keep posting :P

[Timmychuck]

What's wrong with your pc?

[aMaZed]

I had a few viruses i got them through getting a bad copy of winamp 5 i dont know why my virus protection did alert me i cleaned them all off now my PC is running as slow as a snail so i wanna reformat so i wanna burn all my stuff to dvd...

[johns0]

Before you can shrink your files they have to be authored by a dvd program such as tmpgenc dvd author,dvdshrink will not shrink straight mpg or vobs files,only files in dvd format ready to be burned as a compliant dvd for viewing on a player can be shrunk.

[presto]

Heres the problem, i have 20 movie DVDS on my PC which i ripped with smart ripper

There are many ways to rip with Smart Ripper.

If you want to burn with Nero and/or shrink with DVD shrink you need to have .ifo .bup and .vob files from those DVD's. If you don't have those files you need to let us know what you do have so someone can tell you what program you need to use.

[aMaZed]

1 IDX file
1 DZV file
1 IFO file
1 LST file
6 VOB files

in each folder.

[tsantsa]

Wow. I'm amazed.

[aMaZed]

Wow. I'm amazed.

Wtf is your problem dude?

[tsantsa]

Nothin really. Just like giving you a hard time since you feel it's necessary to give the forum a hard time by asking questions that would easily answer themselves if you took more time to read around a bit.

I mean, if you took the time to RIP the movies, then you MUST have taken the time to learn about what to do with the rips, yes? Seems how you have a burner and all. When you run into a REAL problem, ie jittery burns, plays on one dvd player not another, can't figure out the interface of some prog, then feel free to ask. But since you decided to just ask and obviously NOT read, as has been suggested, you are wasting our time. If you were to go on up to the newbie questions forum, you would find many answers to this post without even having asked a thing. Amazing eh?

I am not trying to be elitest here, and I myself have run afoul by the members of this board, but that's not to say that I'm wrong to criticize your obvious lack of preperation for your questions.

Look man, just read around a bit and you will find some answers. Maybe not all of them since you'd like to get this done in a hurry, but at least you can slim down how many you feel you need to ask.

As for my advice, invest in a couple rw's. That may save you a bit of time in the long run.

Oh! And consider my obvious rant to your noobness just a bit of tough love. Just figure a few things out on your own THEN come on and ask. One other thing: Be sure you add as much info about your process as you have tried it as you can.

[northcat_8]

aMaZed -

first, you need to cut people some slack. You came here and asked the questions and people are trying to help you instead of saying "go read a guide and come back when you have intelligent questions" We know what we are doing, so keep it straight on who is need of the help here.

tsantsa is amazed because everything you are asking is covered thoroughly in just about every tutorial and guide written on the subject and basically you are just too lazy to click on the left side of the page and read a little bit.

1 IDX file
1 DZV file
1 IFO file
1 LST file
6 VOB files

You don't have any BUP files? From what you have listed here it looks like you just ripped the movie only.

So here's your movie only process...

If your ripped DVD is not in a VIDEO_TS folder, create one and name it just like I have it written capitals are important.

Place all of your VOB files for first movie in the VIDEO_TS folder.

First delete everything except your VOB files.
Then rename your VOB files exactly as follows:

VTS_01_1.VOB
VTS_01_2.VOB
VTS_01_3.VOB
VTS_01_4.VOB
VTS_01_5.VOB
VTS_01_6.VOB

Now you need to download IFOedit

using IFOedit
Click "Create IFOs" button, browse to find your VTS_01_1.VOB file
Click "Get VTS sectors"
Click "Region Free"
Click Save

Now in your VIDEO_TS folder you will have the 6 VOB files and you will also have VIDEO_TS.IFO and VIDEO_TS.BUP

Your VIDEO_TS folder is complete and you can now start PowerDVD or WinDVD and play the DVD from the folder.

Now you need to drag and drop that VIDEO_TS folder into the root directory of a drive. So for example C:\VIDEO_TS

Go download IMGtools from doom9.net and start IMGtools and open the drive where your VIDEO_TS folder is in the root directory.

Define a output file name and location. and click make image.

Once the image is made, go download DVD Decrypter. Start it and go to menu - mode > ISO > write browse to find your image file you just created, open it and click burn button.

Your DVD is done in about 12 minutes if you are burning at 4x.

Now I hesitate to ask this but since a VOB file is typically around 1 GB in size it looks as if you need to re-encode the files.

So you will need to use DVDshrink or Instant copy 7 or similar to compress the files.

If having to go this route you will get an image file as an output from DVDshrink and PDI files from IC. With IC you will need to download pdi2iso to convert the pdi files to an ISO file and then you go to the DVD Decrypter step above.

Also with 6 VOB files you may have ripped a full DVD, I don't know, it depends on the DVD. If you did rip the whole DVD then you need to use Instant Copy or DVD Shrink in the very beginning. I don't know what you are working with since you didn't give any specifics of the files. You could always highlight all 6 VOB files and see if it is over 4.7 GB...if it is they need to be re-encoded, if not follow the process above that you READ.

On a side note, I have yet to run into a virus that after removed has had such an impact on my PC that I could not fix the problem without reformatting and re-installing XP. Maybe your PC is slow because your 240 GB hard drive is carrying around almost 160 GB of DVD's and your disc maybe fragmented considerably. Like I said, my PC has been in serious dire straights before and I have never had a situation that with a little research and common logic and understanding I couldn't fix without doing a fresh install. But that seems to be the way of the times...don't fix it, just wipe it out and start over.

I personally think you should just delete all of the DVD's and start over, this time ripping with DVD Decrypter. But let me guess, the reason you have 20 DVD's on your PC is either:

A. you just ripped them as you rented or borrowed them and now you have a burner and want to burn them

B. you downloaded them

If you owned the DVD's there is no way you would have 20 on your HD before you learned how to back them up.

So there is a movie only tutorial for you using IFOedit, you could have read 20 of them just like it long before you read this one.

[aMaZed]

yer thanks alot guy's, sorry for any problems caused i'll be sure to read all the tutorials next time.

Thanks again

[Will Hay]

yer thanks alot guy's, sorry for any problems caused i'll be sure to read all the tutorials next time.

Thanks again

Glad you're heading in the right direction
It's good advice to start with reading a guide and then asking questions, but there's a right way to say this and a wrong way.
Let's hope you don't run into the same arseholes next time, the ones who want to remove this wonderful forum and replace it with a search box.
Will Hay

[northcat_8]

aMaZed -

The reason for the guides is so people don't post repetitive information. I am more than willing to help anyone who doesn't know and wants to learn or figure something out but your question is in the mind of any and all folks new to the backing up process that is the purpose of the guides and why you were advised to read them.

What I posted was essentially a guide...you had to read it...so why not read a guide posted in the guide section? You know what I mean?

But no worries, no harm done.

Some advice for you though, there are a ton of guides using a variety of programs in a wide variety of combinations. You will want to try a few different ways and find the one that works best for you.

[BOZ53]

I think this thread should be a stickey. to show newbees what happens when you don't take the time to read the rules, don't take time read the forums, don't take time to read the guides, but take outher peoples time and waste it asking questions that are already covered in the guides.
how many of us have asked a teacher (wen were in school ) a question and they said look it UP, or it's in the BOOK?
at doom9 wen you register you have to wait for 5 days before you can start your first thread, make your first post, so you can do a lot of reading.

btw if you fall in to this catigory? don't complicate yourself. stick to dvd shrink or some other one click program and nero6 or some other burning program. and don't change programs when you get them to work. your just asking for problems.

[Matteo693]

What's wrong with repeating information in the threads? Doesn't that give someone more of a chance of stumbling across an answer? I think it is good to resurrect an old old thread now & then, even if it means going over a lot of the old info. Instead of blasting Amazed, why not give him links to the old threads/guides/whatever? Or just give him the info he's after? Others (like myself) will have more of a chance of stumbling across it. As for reading "all the guides"...well this whole dvd ripping/video editing/etc bizzo is one helluva steep learning curve (as I've discovered these last 12 months!)...there's MILLIONS of guides out there, often with contradicting info...it takes a LOOONG time & a LOT of hard work & trial-and-error to sift thru it all & educate yourself. Sometimes it's just simpler to post a question on a cool forum such as this!!!

Then again, insulting people can be a rewarding hobby! So really, I don't give a shit what you people say to each other! Ha ha!