Backing up Episode Disc

[Syro]

Using DVD Shrink, I've backed up a lot of full length movies, but I never backed up episode disc sets. I want to backup my Chappelle's Show Season 1 (not on one disc), but I want it at the best possible quality with the menus. DVD Shrink automatically gives compression at 58.6% and I want better.

Any ideas on this disc or episode discs in general? I'm open to other DVD ripping/copying programs that may get the job done.

TIA

[jimmalenko]

I think maybe VOBBlanker or TitleSetBlanker might do what you require. What you can do is make two DVDs out of the one original. Say for example Disc 1 in your Box Set contains 6 episodes. You could have 3 eps + menus on one and the remaining 3 + menus on the other. All menus remain functional too.

[Shudder]

Just do the mentioned above with DVDShrink.

If there's 6 episodes, do a still picture for episode 4-6 then redo the DVD doing the same to episodes 1-3.

Personally I don't find TV shows to be that bad at even 55% Movies are annoying but shows don't bug me.

[Syro]

Thanx

But I don't want 4 discs for this 2 disc set. I'm going to try the full backup at 56%

thanx again. any other suggestions would be appreciated

[ChickenMan]

I would suggest you use DVD ReBuilder then, it uses CCE for its encoding and will give you better quality at 55% than Shrink will.

CM

[dimad]

You can have lower compression ratio if you remove things you don't need from the disk, like studio logo, credits, etc

Many episode disks have duplicated material (like credits for each episode). You can use DvdReMake Pro to keep only one copy and "reuse" it in all episodes.