Newbie question about folder2iso

[fayewolf]

I've ripped my dvd using dvdfab decrypter, so now i have a folder in my documents/dvd and it contains 2 subfolders: audio and video_ts.

Trying to follow this guide here-
While this sounds like an extremely easy task, you have to remember that simply selecting the folder that contains the DVD files (.vob, .ifo, .bup etc...) WILL NOT WORK!! On a DVD, for compliancy issues you need an AUDIO_TS folder and a VIDEO_TS folder. The AUDIO_TS folder is usually empty but the VIDEO_TS folder must contain all you DVD files. So copy all your DVD files into a folder and call it VIDEO_TS. Create a new folder called DVD or something and put the VIDEO_TS folder into it. Then create an empty folder called AUDIO_TS

I don't understand what I'm suppose to do. can i just select dvd file? What does it mean by copy all my dvd files into a folder and call it video_ts? Ialready have such a subfolder... sorry if i'm really stupid...

I want to use imgtools,but i don't have nero.

Thanks!

[gadgetguy]

The file structure on the DVD will have a VIDEO_TS folder and an AUDIO_TS folder. The VIDEO_TS folder has the video files, the AUDIO_TS folder is empty. All the guide is saying is that you have to follow this convention and set up these folders under a common folder, and then burn those two folders to the root of the DVD.

Edit: Wait, your creating an ISO, ignore the burning part. You just want a folder that contains the two subfolders to create the ISO with.

[redwudz]

First off, what are you trying to do? If it's just to make an copy of a DVD, Decrypter will do all that.

And imgtools doesn't need Nero to burn, as long as you have a compliant DVD video file, as in 'What is' DVD to the upper left. <<<<<<<<<<

EDIT: I guess I should add, most commercial DVDs won't directly fit on a standard DVD, you would need a dual layer DVD disc. Or you could use DVDShrink with DVDDecrypter to burn a ISO copy of the Shrink(ed) files to a regular DVD.

[fayewolf]

What i'm trying to do is copy a dvd. According to one of the guides, imgtools requires nero installed, and I dont have it... so I'm stuck..

using file2iso to burn the image won't allow me to play the dvd on my standalone dvd player...


Any suggestions? Thanks!

[guns1inger]

Which guide ? Imgtools classic creates an ISO. The guide may use Nero to burn this image, but you can just as easily use ImgBurn to do it.

[fayewolf]

sorry, i was confused, imgtool burn req nero, but not plain imgtool.

So please tell me if this will work:

Rip with dvdfab decryter
Use DVDshrink to make it fit on my cheap dvd media
Use IMGtool to make an ISO copy of the movie
Use DVD decryptor to burn the image



Thanks!

[mats.hogberg]

Use ImgTools Classic.
Select the folder above VIDEO_TS & AUDIO_TS as source dir (not VIDEO_TS) and create the iso. Burn ISO with ImgBurn or DVDDecrypter.

simply selecting the folder that contains the DVD files (.vob, .ifo, .bup etc...) WILL NOT WORK!!

No, it wont.

/Mats

[guns1inger]

If you are using DVD Shrink to reduce the size, and you have DVD Decrypter installed, when you hit the Backup button, select Create ISO and Burn with DVD Decrypter as your output option. Pop in a blank disc, hit OK, and shrink will take care of everything for you. No need for imgtools clasic and all the associated faffing around.

[fayewolf]

If you are using DVD Shrink to reduce the size, and you have DVD Decrypter installed, when you hit the Backup button, select Create ISO and Burn with DVD Decrypter as your output option. Pop in a blank disc, hit OK, and shrink will take care of everything for you. No need for imgtools clasic and all the associated faffing around.

This is the way I backup one of my dvds.. this is one nof my older ones, and I used dvdshrink to back it up, (forgot about dvdfab decrypter.),
is it true that unless it's a newer dvd, dvdshrink will be ok to rip the dvd onto my HD? Seems like it's easier this way...

Also, if the encription is too new, at which step will I know that it didn't rip properly? Do i have to wait till i pop it to my standalone dvd?

Thanks~!

[mats.hogberg]

Shrink only chokes on more recent releases, with ARccOS "protection", yes, and I usually use it to both rip&shrink in one go. Very few requires you to first rip with DVDFab Decrypter or DVDDecrypter.
If you have a ARccOS disc, Shrink will tell you it's failing already at the "Analyzing..." stage - not many minutes wasted.

/Mats

[fayewolf]

DVDDecrypter.
If you have a ARccOS disc, Shrink will tell you it's failing already at the "Analyzing..." stage - not many minutes wasted.

/Mats

Thank you so much. You mean even if it started the process at the analyzing stage, i can still use the dvd disc??

[mats.hogberg]

You mean the emty DVD-R? Oh yes! I just let Shrink rip&shrink to ISO, then burn the ISO with DVDDecrypter later on.

/Mats

[fayewolf]

Thank you!! that was very helpful!