Biggest DVD?

[dead_indian_walking]

What is the biggest DVD u have tried to back-up

[Jayhawk]

I have backup up The Missing at 137 minutes and K-19 Widowmaker at slightly more BUT as a rule do not back up anything over 130. Even then it would have to be a movie I would probably NOT buy again if the original got damaged.

It's that quality thing. My question to myself is "would I watch a low quality backup of a good movie or would I just buy a new copy". For some movies (Godfather, Die Hards, LOTR, Star Wars, Schindler's List) I know in my heart a backup is a waste time. I'd just go buy another original.

For some (The Missing, As Good As It Gets), I could probably get by with the backup. Extras also come into play. Normally I do movie only. If I like the extras and the compression gets up around 30% then I wouldn't back it up.

Might feel differently if I had kids or loaned my originals out.

[Cecilio]

The biggest DVD i have backed up till now has been Pearl Harbor which is on two DVD-9 disks and time lenght is 183 minutes. i was actually thinking about splitting it onto two disks since the original was too on two disks, but i decided to go with half D1. i ripped both dvds to my computer and put them in separate folders, then using DVD2ONE i joined the both cds and i set a custum size of 9999. with this now i had a huge folder with about 9 VOBS. now i delete the other 2 dvds. I then got an Avisynth script using DVD2SVCD, and i encoded the movie using Main Concept Mpeg Encoder 1.4 using one pass VBR with 192 K audio. well i used 3,092 kbs bitrate for a video resolution of 352*480, and it looked PERFECT. im serious i could not tell the difference from the original. Not a single macroblock in any action scene, even when i zoom in. 8) or maybe im just that damn good

[adam]

Last Emperor, 218 mins. I encoded it once in half D1 and once at 704x480 and couldn't see any difference so I kept the 704x480 one. Its only 4:3 too, but the movie is just very compressible.

[Gazorgan]

Dances with Wolves, Director's Cut. This is a DVD18 (only one I've ever seen). Anamorphic and over 3.5 hours with intro's and credits. Not to mention all the extra's.

[kickbxn5]

The Godfather. I deleted the menus, extra languages, etc using dvdshrink

[Cecilio]

Dances with Wolves, Director's Cut. This is a DVD18 (only one I've ever seen). Anamorphic and over 3.5 hours with intro's and credits. Not to mention all the extra's.

did you fit all that onto (1) ONE DVD5 if you did, did you use half D1 or something special to maintain good quality? PROPS

[hhhhbk]

lock stock the series i think it was 7 gig for first disk

[vric]

Dances with Wolves, Director's Cut. This is a DVD18 (only one I've ever seen).

Schrindler's List is DVD18 too.

Bigest compression would be Godfather too. all other movie are on 2 DVD (like LOTR:EE)

[DTSL06]

Lord of the Rings special 2 disc editions (added footage) on to 1 DVD-5 each. Thats like about ~3hrs each.

Oops...the single bigest DVD was Apocalypse Now Redux 202 mins.

[porphyra]

Superman is also DVD18. 2 sided DVD-9s. I wouldnt want to encode that.

[Matteo693]

CASINO (171mins). The disk was physically cracked so after heaps of fooling around, I managed to rip the main movie & DVD Shrink it to a DVD-R. Fortunately (?) it was only the extras that were affected.

(Don't worry, FBI poofs, I'll be buying it again one of these days...on my list after GODZILLA VS MECHAGODZILLA III and a million others, ha!)...

[ViRaL1]

I'm curcious...how good did LOTR Ext Ed look on 1 disc?

[DTSL06]

I'm curcious...how good did LOTR Ext Ed look on 1 disc?

actually very good. If u dont do side by side its good enuf for most viewings. I watch it on a 53" hidef TV. Sure beats changing discs. Its def not as good as original. We veiwed it on a projector with a 10foot screen and its passable but def not as good as the orginal 2 discs.

[EvilAsHole]

I backed up a porn video (thought I might wear it out ) The main feature was over 4 hours long not including menus or extras so I am thinking 5 hrs or so- I used DVDShrink to do it the first time i decrypted it, it said the disc I had was to small so I ran it through again and it burned just like it should and worked perfectly menus and everything.

[Cecilio]

I'm curcious...how good did LOTR Ext Ed look on 1 disc?

actually very good. If u dont do side by side its good enuf for most viewings. I watch it on a 53" hidef TV. Sure beats changing discs. Its def not as good as original. We veiwed it on a projector with a 10foot screen and its passable but def not as good as the orginal 2 discs.

when encoding a movie thats over 2 hours and 30 minutes it might look ok using full D1, but i would recommend using half D1. if the movie is 3 hrs, you could encode at 352*480/576 at a bitrate of about 3000 with 192 kb audio. so you can have 3 hours on one disk look perfect. I viewed Pearl Harbor which i burned onto only one disk which was originally on 2 disks, and i couldn't tell the difference while looking at it on a 53" HDTV, or a projector being projected on a huge wall oh well.