Southpark season backup encoding problems

[syoung]

Im trying to back up my Southpark Season disk sets but i dont want to do it 1/1... Im re-encoding the eps to fit on one disc but i always get the same results... ive change all the setting possible... used different encoders ... even tried DVD2SVCD. nothing gives good results.... Wheni play them back they are jumpy and full of lines(like my interlace settings are wrong)

Any suggestions?

Ive tried doing it manually though DVD2AVI then runnig it throgh TMPGEnc but then i either get no picture when im converting or the picture is gray..

any help would be appreciated

[HatchetMan]

Have you tried ripping them all in file mode to the hard drive first with dvd decrypter, then using dvd shrink to reauthor? I use shrink to create an iso to then burn with decrypter after all that, works everytime.

[syoung]

i could try that but im afraid that ill lose too much quality ..... ill give that a try but i would much rather re-encode to at least preserve some of the quality....

[HatchetMan]

Didn't know how much you were actually throwing onto one disc, an entire season? Deep analysis and maximum smoothness settings help. Dual layer discs help. Maybe try dvd rebuilder w/ CCE. I haven't yet.

[syoung]

southpark theres an average of 13eps a season about 23min each .. trying your way now to see if it turns out ok

[guns1inger]

Any transcoder, such as DVD Shrink, will struggle to give you quality at that level of compression. You are talking about fitting over 3.5 hours on a single DVD5.

DVD Rebuilder is your best option, but I would split it over 2 disks instead of trying to shoe-horn it into one.

[syoung]

Any transcoder, such as DVD Shrink, will struggle to give you quality at that level of compression. You are talking about fitting over 3.5 hours on a single DVD5.

DVD Rebuilder is your best option, but I would split it over 2 disks instead of trying to shoe-horn it into one.

i was thinking the samething... but at this point im willing to try anything....
also at this point its more of a challenge to do now instead of a want... i have a DL burner but the challenge is there now ....LOL

Im not worried about getting it on disk i just wanna fix the encodes

[steve2713]

You could simply blank out half/half the episodes and split to two discs. You can retain menus, etc. and just use a blank, solid color frame for half the episodes using DVD Shrink. Or better yet, blank out half the episodes for each disc using VOBblanker. Either way, it's free, quite easy and you'll retain any menus, extras, etc. and you'll also probably not need to use ANY compression.

For that amount of content, it's probably not worth bothering trying to squeeze it onto one disc when you can easily split it to two discs, being episodes it'll be easy to do.

[jdizzy40]

Sounds too me like you are taking a very long road to get where you want to go. I use TMPGEnc DVD Author to convert back to MPEG. Cut and Chop the shows you want. ReAuthor and then use DVD Shrink to get it down to one disk. I routinely fit 6, 1 Gig shows onto one disk with great viewing quality.

[louv68]

I fully backed up The Family Guy and it looks indistinguishable from the original. I used VOBBlanker to remove all the logos, warnings, etc, thus giving me a little extra space. Then I used DVDShrink to take out foreign language tracks I'll never use. I also compressed the menus and extras as much as DVDShrink would allow and did a Deep Analysis and backed up with Maximum Smoothness. The discs look great. The compression on the episodes range from the low to mid 60's. Southpark has such simple animation, that I wouldn't think compression would give much of a visual difference from the original disc. Just my 2 cents.