New Tutorial: Movie Only Backup with Menu/Scene Selection

[galactica]

This is great for those of us out there like myself you love to have Highest possible quality movie but still retain a working menu / scene selection as found on the dvd. (means you dont have to make your own!)

this has been mentioned a few times here before, but now you can find a tutorial on how to do it for youself on my new website.

Highest Possible Quality DVD to DVDr Backup


enjoy!

[thoughton]

Nice work Galactica!

One question: it seems like it would be a little easier to replace all the extras before using DVD2OneX and then just set the size to 4444MB? Or would it not work as well doing it this way round?

[galactica]

i tried that.... dvd2one doesn't accept that VIDEO_TS file with text files in it. Gives you an error saying all of the files are not present....
so i just assumed it meant it wouldnt work that way.

this isnt all that difficult when you think about it.

[terryj]

aaaggghh...!
math!


great job as always mighty one!

[galactica]

yea i knew that would turn people away....

hahahah thus ADVANCED title

its really not that difficult once you do it a few times....

[macsys]

Quick question in your tutorial on DVD to DVDr backup you have a color coded graphic representation of a video-ts folder. How did you find out what the different files are?
Dark Blue:*** Disc Warning Title
Red: ************** Universal Studios Intro Scene (extras material)
Orange:******** Macrovision Intro Scene (extras material)
Yellow:********* DTS Intro Scene (extras material)
Green:*********** Outtakes from Movie (extras material)
Blue:************** Movie Menu / Scene Selection
Purple:********** The Movie Itself
Grey:************* Extras Material
Thanks Wayne.

[galactica]

drag and drop each .vob to VLC to watch it. you can tell what they are based on what you see

i call anythign thats not the MOVIE or the MENU extras. also the warning file is usually the 1st .vob of any size over a few k after the VIDEO_TS.VOB

make since?

[emhag677]

Hi Galactica.
Wouldn't it possible to replace the VIDEO_TS files you want to get rid off with VERY small movie files (some hundred k)? In that way you don't have to all that complicated math and you will hit the size goal more often with the compression and DVD2ONE might like the files better than text files? Just a thought, kind of new to this.
Next question, how do you make small VIDEO_TS files...

Thanks

Emil

[galactica]

thats just the thing.... how do you?

come on, a ratio is hard?!?!?! this is the easy math fellas...

i swear, once you do it a few times you will be like duhhhh it makes perfect sense. That and for you youngsters it will help with your college algebra classes...


is the math really that difficult?!?!?

[thoughton]

math schmath :P

I dont think the complaint here is about doing the math, but more that DVD2ONEX seems to be pretty inaccurate about the final file size. I used to set my output file size to 4444MB (as suggested in your own tutorial), but half the time the output file was too big to fit onto a DVD-R. So I started using 4300. But even that sometimes produces files that are too big, so these days I'm down to using 4200!

Maybe my DVD-Rs are just puny