Help from someone experienced with DVD copying.

[davidian]

Hey. I've followed a guide at doom9.org (http://www.doom9.org/mpg/doitfast-guide.htm) and it works very well, but now I'm trying with a title that doesn't work that well.

It's a concert. It's got one VTS and 3 PGC's. I follow the steps in the guide as usual, but the problem comes with the audio, I don't get any AC3's ripped, only one WAV-file. And that WAV-file is only audio for one of the PGC's. Any idea how I can put it all back together properly?

[Gurm]

Yikes. Any particular reason you're using the single most difficult method of DVD duplication?

The Big3 can give you nice quality, but it's HARD TO USE for beginners.

- Gurm

[davidian]

I want to get great quality. But I solved the problem.

The DVD seemed to have only PCM audio for the PGC's and AC3 only for the menu.. and it got f*cked up when I tried extracting the audio the way the guide uses. So I .. did it a kind of difficult way, but now it works!

[DoubleShadowIce]

I want to get great quality. But I solved the problem.

The DVD seemed to have only PCM audio for the PGC's and AC3 only for the menu.. and it got f*cked up when I tried extracting the audio the way the guide uses. So I .. did it a kind of difficult way, but now it works!

@davidian

Just wondering how long it took you when using the Big3 method on your DVD...I haven't gone that route yet. It looks intimidating.

[davidian]

I finished last night! I was kinda suprised everything worked

It's not that intimidating, but you can't follow the guide to 100%, there are some things that you need to change to make it suite your DVD ofcourse.

I don't know how long time it took really.. a few hours + many hours for the encoding (I used 5-pass VBR). I just took my time and read it carefully and tried to understand what the hell I was doing and more important, why I was doing it.

It's very educational. But the guide is not perfect ofcourse, there are several steps that aren't explained in detail ofcourse, so, like he says in the guide, you do need some experience.

[Gurm]

I mean, for 99% of us slapping the disc in and running DVD Shrink is just fine...

- Gurm

[davidian]

Well, for me it isn't.