DVD Ripping...

[skip2mylou]

hello everyone, i recently ripped a DVD but it was one of those with like 6 or 7 GB on it. so i used DVDDecrypter rather than DVDShrink and ripped the VOBs, IFOs and BUPs to a folder. however how can i "shrink" the files size so that it can fit on a standard DVD+R. at first i was gonna use DVDShrink to do the whole thing, but it was gonna take like 5 hrs, and i just cant stand waiting...any ideas?

[MOVIEGEEK]

DVDShrink->Open Files.
It shouldn't take 5 hours unless you have a PII :P ,if you want to speed up the process don't use Deep Analysis or AEC.

[skip2mylou]

yeah see i would always use deep analysis because i thought it betters the video quality, does it really. or is there no noticable change?

[skip2mylou]

o BTW, i need to burn the DVDs to be able to play in a PAL player, im pretty sure the disks are in NTSC format, how can i make sure what format the disk is in, and how can i change it?

[skip2mylou]

i saw that when i ripped with DVDShrink, i ticked the REGION FREE box, does this mean that the DVDs will play in NTSC as well as PAL, and does DVDDecrypter have this option...?

[skip2mylou]

should i NOT select this option:

[waheed]

Region has NOTHING to do with NTSC/PAL.

[skip2mylou]

o is that right...so wat do u suggest i do?

[cd090580]

Some PAL players can play NTSC disks. But to have a 100% compatibility, convert it to PAL (if it's NTFS). There are lots of guides here.

[budz]

you will need to convert the NTSC disc to PAL. look over at the guides to the left on conversions. it may be easier to just get a dvd player can playback NTSC & PAL discs.

[steve2713]

Deep Analysis and AEC both lengthen the time it takes to transcode the video, but both will also improve the quality. I'd say, at the very least, do deep analysis. I always use AEC as well though, transcoding time increases as you go from Sharp to Smooth to Max Smooth (never use Max Sharp). Use Sharp at about 75% and up for most content, Smooth from 65-75% compression, and Max Smooth around 65% or below. Max Smooth will take a long time, though. It also depends on the bitrate of the original video, but these are good guidelines to follow.

[skip2mylou]

o ok, i always do the deep analysis, and usually set to the default of sharp, however most of the time, my compression is usually below 65%, but i still use the default, why do u recommend i use max smooth?

[steve2713]

Use smooth or max smooth, your results will be improved using either of those with high compression, especially when compressing 2 1/2 hours+ of total video content.

[skip2mylou]

ok thanks...ill try that out.