Im getting mad!!!!!!!!!

[HDDVD]

Can someone PLEASE!!!!!!!!! tell me what is the best way to to go for the best posssible dvd copying quality. i dont care if the program is free or not i just wat the absolute best quality i can get. I also want a program that can copy all the extras i want too.

[lordsmurf]

Here: https://www.videohelp.com/tools?s=19#19
Read. Test. Good luck.

I suggest DVD SHRINK.

[dvdguy4]

Ive had nothing but fantastic results with dvd2one and dvdshrink.You need to buy dvd2one but dvdshrink is freeware. I prefer DVD2one personally.Never had a crappy copy. Never

[stiltman]

Can someone PLEASE!!!!!!!!! tell me what is the best way to to go for the best posssible dvd copying quality. i dont care if the program is free or not i just wat the absolute best quality i can get. I also want a program that can copy all the extras i want too.

Abosolute best??

split the dvd to 2 dvdrs, keeping everything
Infoedit is what I use

edit: listed wrong tool

[888888]

Can someone PLEASE!!!!!!!!! tell me what is the best way to to go for the best posssible dvd copying quality. i dont care if the program is free or not i just wat the absolute best quality i can get. I also want a program that can copy all the extras i want too.

There is no way to backup a full DVD-9 disc to a DVD-5 burnable disc without losing a lot of quality due to compression. Even with DVD Shrink's extra quality settings, 50% compression still looks like crap.

Your best bet is to divide up a DVD using DVD Shrink and burn it without compressing. Then it will look just like a retail one.

[ghoster]

Abosolute best??

split the dvd to 2 dvdrs, keeping everything
DVD Rebuilder is what I use[/quote]

what he said.....

[jimmalenko]

Can someone PLEASE!!!!!!!!! tell me what is the best way to to go for the best posssible dvd copying quality. i dont care if the program is free or not i just wat the absolute best quality i can get. I also want a program that can copy all the extras i want too.

Is a forum search or reading the user comments in the tools section too much to ask ? It's all here already, you just need to look for it and read, read, read

[hech54]

Can someone PLEASE!!!!!!!!! tell me what is the best way to to go for the best posssible dvd copying quality. i dont care if the program is free or not i just wat the absolute best quality i can get. I also want a program that can copy all the extras i want too.

The BEST possible?
Buy a dual layer burner and media.
Buy another of the original factory pressed DVD.

If you see and complain about the quality outcome of programs like DVDShrink or even pay programs....read the above again.

[waheed]

For the best quality, you will need to re-encode the movie rather than to use a transcoder.

Or split to 2 disks, or invest in dual layer technology.

[skebenin]

For best quality, sell all your DVDs (and everything else), move to tibet and join a monastery.

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[smerral]

Well, I have been using DVD rebuilder for the last few weeks and the quality is excellent.

You will find it here:

http://www.doom9.org/

Just use dvd decrypter to rip off the DVD, then choose from one of various free decoders to use with DVD rebuilder - I use Rejig - the readme file explains what to do and where to find the software.

Hope this helps.

[handyguy]

Quality depends on the eye of the beholder.

[Tattman]

I suggest Intervideo's DVD Copy 2. I've used most of the free ones and nearly every commercial one on the market. Not the fastest but I feel it is the easiest and it gives consistent results. I've never burned a coasted with DVD Copy 2.

[BSpielbauer]

>>>tell me what is the best way to to go for the best posssible dvd copying quality. i dont care if the program is free or not i just wat the absolute best quality i can get. I also want a program that can copy all the extras i want too.<<<<

If your post truly expresses your desires, then you have no choice. You will have to split many of your DVD backups onto at least two discs.

Think about it -- In so many cases, you are trying to copy a dual layer disc which holds approximately 9 Gig. Your target is a disc which holds one half of that.

There are those who will tell you to "use this program, I do, the compression is grat, and I can't see any difference." That advice, though, tends to be meaningless, unfortunately. The fact is that there IS a loss, as soon as you make the decision to compress. The person who posts that simply cannot see the loss. But, you might. The person who posts that advice may be viewing on a 17 inch television display. You might be viewing on a 42 inch display. Or. they may be used to viewing VHS tapes, with a resolution of perhaps 240 scan lines. You might be used to "better." Or, they may be viewing their TV from a distance of 21 feet away. You might sit 9 feet away. Or, your eyes might be better than theirs. Or, they may simply be much less "picky" than you are.

Fact: As soon as you make the decision to compress, you will lose quality.

I am a bit picky. Actually, I am a LOT picky. About video quality. I am also picky about audio, but even moreso about video, believe it or not. I am picky about video quality. I realize that I am unusual in this regard, and that is fine. (I am often disappointed when I visit my local cineplex, and want to scream at the management, or the projectionist, or both!) I also usually watch my DVDs on a television display which is 65 inches in size, and which has been carefully ISF calibrated, and I sit about 11 feet away. To make matters worse (or better), I view mostly HDTV sources when I am not viewing DVDs, so DVDs represent the "weakest link" in my viewing habits.

Because of all of the above, I decided early on that I could not use any compression when I back up my DVDs. In my case, (unlike you), I do not give a rat's bottomside about the "extras" and the "special features." So, I can sometimes fit the entire film on one DVD-R or onto one DVD+R. But, when I cannot, I do NOT compress. I simply split the film. I choose "No Compression," and then go ahead and cram as much as I comfortably can onto a first disc (without risking maxxing it out, since I know that most burning problems occur at the ends of films, at the very outer edges of a burned backup disc). I choose "NO compression." I split the film at a chapter stop, usually with DVD Shrink (although there are many other tools which will do this just as well, of course).

Then, I go back and re-rip, beginning with the very next chapter, for a second disc. Again, I choose NO compression. I have found that, in many, many cases, I am able to add the extras (or at least some of the extras) onto the end of Disc 2, with room to spare.

Yes, this means we actually have to get up off of our duffs and we have to change discs. This is the one compromise. However, there are many commercial discs which require you to get up and change discs (the cut of "Pearl Harbor" I own, for example, and also my Superbit versions of "Das Boot" and "Lawrence of Arabia"), just as there are discs which require you to actually get up and turn a disc over. That is a small compromise, to keep my original discs pristine, and let the kids actually handle things themselves. (The only reason I do this is because of the "peanut butter and jelly factor," since my kids cannot seem to learn some lessons as well as others...)

We are a household which is accustomed to getting up to change discs, anyway (I have owned three laser disc players over the years).

This is the only way I can satisfy MY need for the very best in video quality. I am not suggesting that everyone should follow my practices. I fully realize that I am in a minority when it comes to my levels of pickiness and the fact that I have been spoiled by true HDTV for two years. Most viewers are NOT as compulsive about video quality (my wife, for example). Most viewers are NOT watching on a very large video display. And, for those who are, most of those viewers are NOT watching on a display which has been carefully calibrated. Most viewers are NOT sitting so close that they notice video noise on a picture. Most viewers do not have 20-20 vision. Most viewers have not been spoiled by watching years of high definition television, and much of that devoted to source material which was actually shot using high definition cameras. Every viewer must find their own levels of satisfaction, and decide what issues are most important for himself or herself. Your original post suggests that you might consider eliminating any compression, though, and this can be done very easily, even without paying $7 to $10 for a dual layer blank disc. I have done this for my entire collection of 450 + discs.

-Bruce in Chi-Town

[deh707]

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i love this guy.

[lordsmurf]

^
i love this guy.

.... get a room!

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