Ripped MPG file but not sure how to re-encode it.

[joelore]

Hi,

I followed a guide and used VOB2MPG to rip a (approx) 7.5 gig DVD to an MPG file. It was off an older disc that was scratched to hell and took lots of tried and cleaning to do.

I ripped the disc to my HD first with DVD-Decrypter so I still have the image in case I have so far not taken the right action. I mounted the image to a virtual drive then ripped it to an MPG with VOB2MPG. Now I want to do a full re-encode to get it to fit on one DVD-5 disc at the absolute best quality. I already tried DVD-Shrink but the quality is horrible. I have done some other work with Encoders and hope I can get a better quality copy by re-encoding rather than transcoding.

Am I on the right track?

I tried loading it into TMPGEnc but it loads the file as a video source only and when I demux the file it does not recognise the files in order to re-encode them.

What can I use?

Thanks,

J

[bits]

DVD Rebuilder Pro, re-encodes using free encoders like HC and can be used with Procoder and CCE. Takes longer than transcoding but well worth the extra time. The Pro version is well worth the $10 - $15.

[joelore]

Actualy I tried using this to re-encode the image and the disc is made was unplayable on my, several, dvd player.

I will play around with it more.

~j

[bits]

joelore wrote:

Actualy I tried using this to re-encode the image and the disc is made was unplayable on my, several, dvd player.

In the ISO Output Options I select to have it burn using ImgBurn or DVD Decrypter. DVD Decrypter may not be available any more but I know ImgBurn is and it is free. All you need to do is have ImgBurn installed on your system and DVD RB will find it and use it to burn the DVD.

[joelore]

Ok, I will give it a try.

~j

[joelore]

OK, it worked great. But I must not have a setting properly set because even though I have one click backup checked it keeps bringing up a window waiting for me to click encode for every file. What am I missing?

~j