backing up DVD's with television episodes

[Brent212]

When opening a TV series disc (Curb Your Enthusiasm, season 1, volume 1) in dvd shrink, under the "Full Disc" mode, it shows a main movie listing as "Title 1-6" (there are 6 episodes) on the disc. I'd like to be able to keep all the menus and just set the last two episodes to still pics so that the first 4 will not be compressed at all, but there's no way that I can see in dvd shrink to do this. And the funny thing is that I can go to "Reauthor Mode" and see all the titles separate in the dvd browser, and thus place only the first 4 episodes onto a new disc. This is alright, as I get the four episodes uncompressed, but it'd be nice to keep the menus also. I don't understand why dvd shrink sticks them altogether in "Full Disc" mode. Are there any other similar programs to dvd shrink that don't do this? This has been the case on every TV series set of dvd's I've tried to backup with shrink.

Thanks,
Brent

[Treebeard]

Use clonedvd you can just totally remove the last 2 episodes and keep the main menus. they have a free trial you can use.

[Brent212]

awesome, I'll try that out when I get a chance.

thanks for the suggestion.

[winifreid]

I haven't ever seen that. Sometimes it appears that there are two files for each episode, but I haven't seen where all six are together in either mode. You could also try vob blanker, which is freeware.

[Matt D]

I've been using Vobblanker lately, and it's really good, easy to use, and as winifreid said, free. Whatever you don't want you just blank out and save the space for the rest. Awesome program.

[MackemX]

I don't understand why dvd shrink sticks them altogether in "Full Disc" mode.

go to the options and change the 'combine titles' setting. This should then separate them into 6 titles

they probably have the last cell linked which will be a 0.15 sec blank as this is why completely different titles are sometimes linked