Quesiton about using DVD2ONE on Episodic DVDS

[Dkreaky]

i followed a guide that i got from here (dont remember the link) but basically it went like this..

The example I will use is for a 4 episodic DVD..

The guide basically says: use DVD to one and do a "movie" only on each of the seperate episiodes on the disk. (from here you serpate each episode into its own set of VOBS)
Edit the VOB and create a new IFO and use DVD2ONe again to fit it all on one disk. (so it keeps all the same chapter points)

Now theoretically.. one episode should be less than 4.3 gb (usually 2/.5 or something along those lines)

my question is if Im following this guide, does that mean that the DVD is being compressed twice? Or because when Im using DVD2ONe the first time, it realizes that the one episode will fit on one regular DVDR and just seperates it?

basically what Im getting at is on a 4 episodic Disk, I would like to seperate it into 2 episodes per disk (with minimal compression) but if possible keep the chapter points (like the ghuide specified)
I have used the gude before and havebnt noticed too much of a difference.. but i want to know if im compressing it twice..

or again, if DVD2ONE realizes that when i do a movie only it sees that the 45 minute episiode can fit on one disk so it just seperates it out..

Please help

thanks!~

[da_playa]

Try DVDShrink 2.0 (new and free!) or InstantCopy 7.0. I think trying to use dvd2one on episodic disc is too complicated.

[thxkid]

well I use DVD2one on Star trek next generation, keep all 4 shows on one disk, keep only the 6ch audio and do a full disk conversion and on my dads 46 big screen still looks very good, and looks fantastic on my JVC 36in. I use DVD2ONE 1.13.

[Dkreaky]

hey THX do you know how big the TNG is?

how much are you compressing?

im a little hesitant because i dont want to make coasters..

the dvds i usuallyburn are about 7.5 gigs.. and UI have compressed all 4 episodes to one DVD and it looked the same to me.. but like you know how when you know something is compressed you start to look for little things and then second guess yourself "does this look right" "is this how it looks originally?"
but everytime I look at it i just have to wonder.. so I end up splitting the episodic disks..

but if youre saying 4 TNG episides fiit on one disk and good tv looks good.. then wth!

oh and are you doing a full disk ? or you splitting up the episodes?

[mkelley]

I'm hesitant to jump in here because it looks as though THX has directly addressed your question, but I will say that I agree with the other poster about using DVDShrink. It's what I've been using to backup my STTNG disks, and I split two episodes off onto each disk. It's extremely easy and quick (all you have to do is turn the two episodes you don't want into level 8 compression, or "stills" and eliminate the audio from them) and you get zero compression so thus you get perfect quality (it takes about 15 minutes per disk for DVDShrink to do this).

As to whether you can see the difference -- everyone has a different set of eyes and criteria. I can sure tell the difference between high rate encoding (which would only give me two episodes per disk) and medium rate encoding (which would give you four) but if you see no difference don't worry about it.

Then again, I always think if you are going to back something up you should make an exact copy -- it would be like backing up your digital images in JPG format (something I would never do). To each his own.

[Dkreaky]

thank you !

ill look into DVD Shrink