Looking for a program to burn Episodic dvd's (Simpsons, ...)

[RKelly]

Looking for a good program to burn these types of dvds. Any suggestions? Also, if anybody is willing to hook me up with a copy of the software please let me know...thanks!

Ryan164@hotmail.com

[wolv6769]

Type "Episodic" in the search field, in this forum. There is plenty on this subject. I plan on doing the same.

[ddlooping]

Doesn't DVD Shrink v3.0b5 work with them?

[Morloc]

I used DVDShrink to back up my Family Guy DVDs. Used deep analysis and shrunk to about 60% with no apparent loss of quality. Shrunk the whole DVD, menus and all. No need to extract individual episodes to multiple DVDs - although Shrink can do that too.

Morloc

[lordsmurf]

I used DVDShrink to back up my Family Guy DVDs. Used deep analysis and shrunk to about 60% with no apparent loss of quality. Shrunk the whole DVD, menus and all. No need to extract individual episodes to multiple DVDs - although Shrink can do that too.

Morloc

Ditto. DVD SHRINK BETA 3 R5

[David K]

I use Shrink and recommend it too.

But for episodic discs, I think CloneDVD offers a feature that Shrink cannot do.

You can save the menu structure and then pick however many episodes you want to save per disc (assuming, as most are, that the episodes are different DVD "titles.")

Say for example you have six half hour episodes on the original disc.

Using CloneDVD, on your first backup disc you save the menu and episodes 1,2, and 3 On your second backup disc, you save the menu and episodes 4,5,6. This way you get minimal or no compression and the backup still have the menus (with scene selection etc.).

Now DVDShrink's reauthor feature is nice if you want to avoid or minimize compression and want to combine episodes across discs. For example many DVD episodic discs have three one hour episodes per disc. You'd have to compress down to 70% to get them on one DVD writeable. But with reauthor you can put two on each backup with little or no compression. If you're doing a whole series this is particularly handy. Say two original discs with three episodes on each (six hours total split two ways) becomes 3 back-up disc each with two episodes on it (six hours total split three way).

The only draw-back is you cannot save the menu if you use DVDShrink reauthor. But everything is a tradeoff.

[lordsmurf]

@David K
I use DVD SHRINK for episode splits too. No compression or minimal. Just make the "unwanted" episodes STILL PICTURES with no audio. Everything will still work, disc wise and look the same. For next disc, reverse this.

This is what I've come to know as the "flaystus" method, as he was the first one I ever saw doing it.

[David K]

Thanks Lordsmurf. Great tip.
The more that one learns about DVDShrink the more versatile it is.

[MackemX]

Shrink has many uses . I like its variable compression within a title

as for how you split an episodic DVD, well there's many ways to skin a cat

[Gazorgan]

DVDShrink makes it obnoxiously easy to do episodes. Stills/No Audio is one of the secret cheats people never think of on their own (for the Menu dependent anyway).