DVDR Single Disk Copy

[Timoleon]

...just so I'm clear on this: I've enjoyed doing the SVCD thing to CD over the past few months. I normally use 2 disks to make a decent copy of a DVD. Now that I'm buying a DVD burner, I need to know the following from someone with experience doing the same thing:

If I take a 9gig DVD movie, recode the whole thing including all the menues, extras, etc., and put it on a ***single*** DVDR, will the movie still look pretty damn good? Will it look as good as an SVCD? Or will it generally suck because I'm lowering the bitrate and DVD players don't like lower bitrate DVD's....

Thanks for any comments!!

[ghoster]

you won't even notice the difference but you won't have the extras. it will just be the movie.....

[thxkid]

try DVD2DVDR very impressive program and most Dual layered DVD's can be put on one DVD just no extra's and 5.1 still intacted. Now get into a 3 hour movie like Titanic, My Fair Lady, Sound of Music then you will have to reencode to get it all on 1 DVD.

[jarvis1781]

I have a method where you can reencode the entire movie to put it on one DVD while still keeping all the menus, chapters, and extra goodies

PM me for more info

[pimp97max]

I have a method where you can reencode the entire movie to put it on one DVD while still keeping all the menus, chapters, and extra goodies

PM me for more info

why not just share it here?

[bartman]

I hope this doesn't become one of those "how much can I fit on a disk" things again.....I've seen enough "fit 450 hours on 1 cd" messages to last a long time....

Honestly....who uses the menu's anyway....99% of the DVD that came out in the last year go straight to the movie anyway so what's the point ? Besides....if you want to see the menu, load your original disk (because you ARE backing up your disks....aren't you???)

[[_chef_]]

It doesnt only depend on the media-size... how much is the movie and how much are the audio-tracks and the extras...?!

So, normally you'll not detect major decreasings in pic quality (sure, depending on the re-coder you used)...

Finally, you have to check every title once - no golden rule.

[Timoleon]

Thanks all

Jarvis, I hope this isn't a come-on for DVD-Squeeze :P

I realize that I can pop "just the movie" on one disk without any problem, but does anybody have any experience with putting "the whole kit and kaboodle" on a single disk after re-encoding, say a two-hour movie --- and does the thing look any good?

[jarvis1781]

here is how to do it so all the world may know

and as for the above question about quality, I just finished
Lord of the Rings which is a 3 hour movie and I did a 3 pass with CCE and the quality is just fantastic

1) Rip entire movie with Smartripper (backup mode)
2) Use DVD2SVCD to reencode movie (make it small enough to fit with chapter data)
Recommends to use min 1000 avg 3500 and max 9000 use powerbit14 to calculate
3) Use Chapter Extractor to extract chapters from main movie chain of original DVD
4) Click the Format tab under Presets at the bottom
5) Select DVDMaestro
6) Click Save Data at the bottom and save the file as a DVDMaestro *.CHP file
7) run Pulldown if you have to
put Pulldown.exe in folder with files
go to cmd type in Pulldown project.mpv output.m2v -prog_frames p
8) Drag ac3 file and m2v into bottom right of DVDMaestro
9) Double click on Movie1
10) Load parsed m2v and ac3 into this
11) right click in the top to add chapter file .chp
12) click on compile
13) rename vob's from compile and replace them in the original DVD rip folder
14) open IFOUpdate
15) open original movie ifo file open authored ifo file
16) click update, get sectors, region free
17) double check in ifoedit to make sure resolution is 16:9 if it is supposed to be
18) make AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders
19) burn with Nero or make image to test using dvdimager
20) then burn and enjoy!

if you have any questions about this please let me know

also, if you have extras on the movie just reencode that vob and follow the same process above that you used for the main titleset

[Timoleon]

Jarvis --- You R-O-C-K !!!

Thanks ever so much --- that was exactly the sort of information I was looking for!

[vinchi007]

Big thanx. It's a pretty easy Guide and very useful

[Zoloft]

Jarvis, regarding step 13, do I rename and move *all* the vob files that have just been created (in other words, do I include VTS_01_0.VOB, or do I leave it behind)? What about the ifo file? Do I rename and move the new one, or do I keep the original one in place?

Thanks for posting this--it's an excellent guide and I am now trying it out with Sunset Boulevard.

[jarvis1781]

In step 13) you move just the main title VOB's over to the original ripped directory.

then you run ifoupdate using the original title ifo as source and then the newly authored ifo in the second box

then run update and get sectors and region free

that's it