How to burn to DVD without losing quality?

[OHKRLL]

Hi, I've kept ripped video files from my DVDs that were getting old and scratchy ( I have the habit of leaving my CDs out of the case...). I'm new to this, but I burned one copy of Harold and Kumar and I noticed the quality of the picture is not the same. The ripped files have better video quality then the burned copy. I want the burned copy to have the same video quality as the ripped video file. I use DVD-R , I mainly use Nero to burn my DVDs. Could anyone help me? I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

[guns1inger]

What did you use to rip them ?
What did you sue to burn them ?
Did you recompress the files to fit on a single layer DVD ? If so, what did you use ?

[OHKRLL]

I used Smart Ripper...
I use Nerovision Express 2 ...
I'm not sure about the compression...

I don't have any problems with the ripping... the ripped video files come out very nice and just how I want them.

BUT...

when I burn it to a DVD using NeroVision Express 2... the DVD's video quality is lower... I want them to be the same.

Any suggestions, programs that might help me?

[D.A.R.J.R.]

Did you select high quality mode? That always makes mine perfect.

[OHKRLL]

I tried putting high quality mode... It only lets me put 60 minutes into a single DVD-R .... most of my DVD's I burn end up being standard or super long play... very annoying. Most of the movies I burn are around 1/2 to 2 hours.

[D.A.R.J.R.]

Well It think I know what you are doing wrong. You are not "Shrinking" the dvd you are "re-encoding"a new dvd with Nero Vision Express.

Use Smart Ripper to rip the files off the disc them use Nero Recode "Recode entire dvd to dvd" option and select "high quality mode(slow encoding)"

[jtoolman2000]

Exactly! A rip is identical to the original DVD so of course it will look good. Now you also know that one 1hour is the max fit a DVD-r when using your program and here you are trying to squeeze more than that in the same size disk. Well guess what? Something has to give and that usually is quality. Are you doing a movie only backup? If not, you need to. Only keep one audio, english AC# or 5:1 SHITCAN ALL ESTRAS.
Now you have only the essentials and you may actually already be able to fit it without compression or at least very little.

If you would just use DVDShrink and DVD Decrypter to burn, it would make life a lot easier.

Set up the a custom target size of 100 mBs less than max. That will do away will most skipping/freezing at the end of the movie. Assuming you are using good quality media to begin with. Please don;t use Princo Crap and then come back and complain. It will not result in any simpathy for anyone.

Analyze in DVDShrink and choose Reauthor.
Locate the main Movie and drag it to the left window. SOmetimes there will be two titles. Preview them to see which one you want. You can't have both!!!!! It will result in LOTS of compression and lousy quality
Hit the compression settings tab and undo all but one audio and subs ( if you want them ) I would avoing DTS over 5:1. DTS is HUGE and you want the room for the video
The File indicator may or may not be on red. If it is, it will indicate the amount of compression required to get it to fit in a DVD-R
If it is green, than you are ready to simply COPY not transcode the movie to a something that will fit with no compression. You will NOT notice the diference.
Hit the back up tab and there you can choose several more quality settings to further preserve the original quality. There are guides for those here in this forum. If the file is already small enough to fit these settings will be grayed out.because they would be irrelenvant
Choose to back up to "ISO and Burn with DVDDecrypter" ( assuming you have two drives, one for reading/ripping and one for burning)
If not,backup to ISO anyway, switch the original for a blank DVD-R disk.
If you did have two drives, the process is pretty much automatic. If not you will have to switch disks and open up Decrypter to burn the ISO file to disk.

Thant's it