Sopranos giving me trouble

[FCPguy]

I've been trying to back up my season 1 sopranos and ran into huge pixelation issues.

I took the route (copy entire disc) on MTR and DVD2oneX encoded, then toast.

I would've just taken the episodes, but that really isn't an option. (the episodes are rather large).

Anyone done this backup with good results? if so, your workflow please

[schmeg]

Try JOINing together a smaller number of episodes (three?) per disc using DTOX. (Rip entire disc using MTR first, then select titles using DTOX.)

You can select titles from more than one original source folder and combine them into one new disc, too.

And you can also check the results using Apple's DVD player before you burn. Just open the new VIDEO_TS folder and watch in full-screen mode to check how pixelly things are.

[FCPguy]

Nice- Good idea. I've never heard of DTOX- is that fairly easy to use?

[bilestyle]

thas just shorthand for dvd2oneX - DTOX... that is going to make the quality even worse lol.... this is hte problem that is unavoidable w/ the methods requant and dtox use, they dont re-encode (theres various theories to what the programs actually do, truth be told i doubt anyone outside the authors REALLY knows) but this is the problem i've mentioned from the gate w/ this software, when you use it on anything outside of animation on full size dvds (ie sopranos on the dual layer) and you hit massive, mostly unavoidable quality decline, which results in artifacts and pixellation... (what i mean by full size are movies, tv shows that fill up an 8-9 gig dvd without considering the extras and stuff, another example is minority report)

[wulf109]

Season one is difficult because there's four episodes per disk. I did them 2 episodes per disk. I'm on a PC so I used CloneDVD and preserved the menus.