two titles in Main Movie authoring - which to use plus?

[dADDo]

I used DVD Decrypter to capture a 3h20m Japanese/eng subs movie from a DVD (two layer?) and saved to hard disc from where I want to play it (and later to burn toDVD disc).
Opened with DVD Shrink to reauthor to save only main movie plus subtitles.
Open files show TWO titles - one at 3h21m approx 7.1gb and other at 3h26m at approx 7.3gb.

Do I save both (14Gb!!) or one and how do I determine which one?
Or do I have to watch 7 hours of movies and hopefully see the difference?

[guns1inger]

You have a branching title, which Shrink sees as two separate titles. You just have to pick one or the other. Often the longer is a directors cut, but it could also be as simple as translated titles.

[dADDo]

You have a branching title, which Shrink sees as two separate titles. You just have to pick one or the other. Often the longer is a directors cut, but it could also be as simple as translated titles.

great, I've said it before but this board is the best.
I've chosen the longer title as suggested

Now to get rid of the jerkiness in the original decrypt!

[guns1inger]

What jerkiness ? There should be no jerkiness from a DVD rip, unless the original DVD was created with the jerkiness.

[dADDo]

What jerkiness ? There should be no jerkiness from a DVD rip, unless the original DVD was created with the jerkiness.

yeah, right.
In the meantime and frustration I blasted all the files on my hard disc and starting again.
In maybe 10 DVD movies this is the first time I've experienced this problem

For the record the original DVD plays perfectly on my lappie drive.
Using DVD Decrypter I ripped it to an ISO foile and when played with VCL & WinDVD was "jerky"or really slipped a frame or so" about every 30 secs but I wasn't too concerned.
I then reauthored this ISO file and saved uncompressed as ISO - this file when played was similar to first, missed/haltingframe here and there.
Went back and loaded orig. DVD and it played perfectly, no problems.

I always do the defrag/cleanup/close programme routine for every movie I make and I've got heaps free disc space (82Gb+ and 1G memory). The only thing I can thik of is I didn't diable my Virus prog. and maybe, just maybe the internet connect was on in the first rip.
Would a (WinXP) screen saver cause problems? should I disable that as well?
I'm also wondering whether I should save to VOB files etc rather than direct to ISO?

If forum is interested I'll post results.

[guns1inger]

A screensaver running during the ripping process will have no effect. A screen saver running during playback might, but how would you know ?

[dADDo]

Update...after blasting everything to cyberspace re-ripped DVD with DVD Decrypter.
All worked well, no jittering in saved files or new burned discs from those files.
What caused it, who knows?

All's well that ends well.