DVD2ONE results

[gobama]

With a multiple disc movie like Pearl Harbor, Rose Red, The Shining etc I believe you can rip the main movie files from each disc into separate folders and then rename the 2nd disc files and import them into the Disc 1 folder. Say if you have vts_01_01,02,03,04.vob. And disc 2 has 4 vob's then you would name the disc 1 vob's as :vts_01_05-08.vob and then place those into your first directory. Then use ifoedit to create new ifo's and then run this through dvd2one to put it onto 1 disc. Does this sound about right? Gosh I love ifoedit. There's so much you can do with this little tool!

[dvasco]

I played an original on 1,and a DVD2ONE copy on the other,SPLIT SCREEN!There is a clear loss of detail and pixilation on the copy!I then tried a 2 disc copy done with X Copy,About as close to the original as you could get.I compared the DVD2One to the X Copy,X Copy wins.I even switched decks,just to make sure it wasn't a hardware thing.Bottom line DVD2One is very good on smaller movies,but I will not replace my X Copy with it,but will use DVD2One as well.

jeepers94
Are you comparing a 2 disc Xcopy to a single disc DVD2One copy? If so, is the DVD2One less than half as good?
Is there anyone else out there that can give an apple to apple comparison? BTW, I don't plan on owning an HDTV or projector of any kind for at least a couple more years. I had been doing SVCD and settled for the quality but desired better. Total SVCD video file size = 1.9 GB, planned DVD video = 3.9 GB

[azuberi80]

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[jeepers94]

dvasco,no the 2 disc DXC backups are not twice as good.DVD2ONE does a good job,but with a HDTV home theater setup,with a 300 disc changer,I will go with the BEST quality.I tried Spiderman as a test burn.I would rate it at 8 compared to 10 for DXC,on my setup.So,in most cases on titles of 2 hours in length,DVD2ONE would be acceptable.

[jeepers94]

azuburi80,was the remark directed to me? If it was,I know more about the subject than you will ever know! I was pointing out to the people that are saying DVD2ONE is "perfect",it is not! We can all guess at the comparisons of the programs.I wanted to offer my "actual" test results.
If the remark was directed at me,read the previous posts on DVD2ONE,then you may have the facts!

[dvasco]

dvasco, no the 2 disc DXC backups are not twice as good. DVD2ONE does a good job,but with a HDTV home theater setup, with a 300 disc changer, I will go with the BEST quality. I tried Spiderman as a test burn. I would rate it at 8 compared to 10 for DXC, on my setup. So, in most cases on titles of 2 hours in length, DVD2ONE would be acceptable.

Wow, that is great. dvd2one is sounding like a good option after all.

[jeepers94]

azuberi80,forgive my coming down on you! I just read some of your previous posts,I didn't understand how little you know on backing up dvds! Three days ago,you asked about a comparison of svcd to dvd.Since then,you must have become a master at dvd burning!Hang in there,your ignorance will might be displaced,by knowledge!

[ilscuro]

Dvd2one apart from anything else has taken us a step nearer to making dvd copying so much easier!
And surely thats got to be a good thing!

[IvIark]

I tried Spiderman as a test burn.I would rate it at 8 compared to 10 for DXC,on my setup.

How did you manage to get a decrease in quality for Spiderman with DVD2One? Mine shows no difference whatsoever between DVD2One or the original because it turned out less than 4.7GB.

[Zozark]

I have The Phantom Menance origianl and want to back-up. I want only the fullscreen version, however when I use Decrypter, DVD2ONE I end up with widescreen being encoded. Does anyone have any tips on what should be done prior to encoding with DVD2ONE to get only the fullscreen version? Is it something I'm doing or not doing with Decrypter?

Thanks,

Zozark

[jeepers94]

Well,Iviark there IS a loss of quality! If you would like to come to my house,I will show you side by side!You may not notice it on an average setup,but there is minor pixalation near the scsene where the Goblin is fighting Spiderman.

[Scarpad]

eh The Phantom Menace Full Screen and Widescreen Disks were two seperate releases so I'm not Sure what you mean... and if you really want the Full screen version I have three Letters for you VHS.

[musher70]

EPISODE 1 was only released in full screen recently, so most
of us blokes only have the widescreen disc, thanks to george
for that one, he delayed episode one like a year or so after
the tape came out so most of us would buy it twice...

[Ndb;-))]

I have The Phantom Menance origianl and want to back-up. I want only the fullscreen version, however when I use Decrypter, DVD2ONE I end up with widescreen being encoded. Does anyone have any tips on what should be done prior to encoding with DVD2ONE to get only the fullscreen version? Is it something I'm doing or not doing with Decrypter?

Thanks,

Zozark

Why not just set your DVD Player to Pan & Scan ?? then all your widescreen DVD's will fill the screen.

[Scarpad]

I have The Phantom Menance origianl and want to back-up. I want only the fullscreen version, however when I use Decrypter, DVD2ONE I end up with widescreen being encoded. Does anyone have any tips on what should be done prior to encoding with DVD2ONE to get only the fullscreen version? Is it something I'm doing or not doing with Decrypter?

Thanks,

Zozark

Why not just set your DVD Player to Pan & Scan ?? then all your widescreen DVD's will fill the screen.

You know a Hollywood video Manager told me once that he tells all his customers to do the same. He must have alot of pissed off customers. That won't work. The Pan & Scan option was originally going to be utilized for P&S on the fly. But the disk manufacturers never utilized it.

[rubberman]

Not sure if anyone else tried this but if you keep using DVD2one on the VOB files that it will keep shrinking them. I have a VIDEO_TS folder that was 4.8gigs. I used DVD2one and shrunk it to 4.36gigs like normal so i ran it again on that new folder and reduced it to 3.8gigs. Just wondered if you could keep shrinking till you could make a vcd? i know video quality wont be the same.

[NYPlayer]

rubberman,

Just tried your theory. It came out exactly the same size. Maybe yours didn't complete....

[johnmeyer]

From the documentation, it says that it doesn't do anything if the VOBs will fit on one DVD. I hope it doesn't!

[IvIark]

Well,Iviark there IS a loss of quality! If you would like to come to my house,I will show you side by side!You may not notice it on an average setup,but there is minor pixalation near the scsene where the Goblin is fighting Spiderman.

I don't need to come to your house, I've got the DVDs here and can see for myself. It's either in your head or you kept enough streams to take it over the 4.7GB limit. The main video, main 6ch audio and 1 subtitle stream is less than 4.7GB, and so the video stream wouldn't be touched by DVD2One unless yours is doing something that no one elses copy does.
If you've kept additional audio and subtitle streams then it seems strange that someone who is obviously so anal about "original quality" would compromise it by doing so.

[azuberi80]

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[kitty]

Let's keep the bashing / flaming down or the thread will be locked

Lower bitrates almost always means loss of quality, maybe a bit, maybe alot depending on how it is done.

You have to compare equal things. A DvdXcopy on 2 discs should be better than a DVD2one on a large DVD (for a DVD5 it should be about equal).

For those who want 100% perfection: save time & money - buy a second commercial DVD and forget copies. Especially if you have a 300 disc changer (how many times will you take out of the changer? The laser won't scratch the disc...)

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Kitty has it 100% and nuff said

[jopereira]

Why not just set your DVD Player to Pan & Scan ?? then all your widescreen DVD's will fill the screen.

Well there's a problem here. I posted it twice on this forum, but it seems that no one has the same problem as I.

My Pioneer 535 will play a movie WITH letterbox, no matter I select Pan&Scan or 4:3 Letterbox mode. Why?
Because there a flag to do automatic letterbox, and most of commercial DVD have it set to ON.
It seems that Pioneer uses this setting to override manual (default) selection.

However, if I backup up that disk (any method) and use IFOEDIT to set that flag OFF, the Pioneer will take the default setting and displays in Pan&Scan mode (or any other mode I put it - 16:9 or 4:3 Letterbox).

With DVD2One backups it won't work as expected because I loose subtitles in Pan&Scan. When I select 4:3 letterbox on Pioneer it plays the movie just fine (in letterboxed mode...). That's the main fault I found in DVD2One.
That's why I still use IFOEDIT with movies that don't take the full 4,3G, and DVD2DVDR to the others.

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jopereira

OK

[Rennic]

I just bought the programm and tried to backup Men in Black 2
It was a great succes. I can't see any difference on my bigscreen TV.

MIB 2 is not a big movie. Tonight i will try the Green Mile which is a bitt longer.

If it doesn't work out i will use DVDXCopy for the 2 hours + movies and for the movies under 2 hours i will use DVD2ONE. I don't mind losing the Menu option, which happens with DVD2ONE.

DVD2ONE is very easy to use and (i think) one of the best programms out there. Normally i wouldn't pay for any programm, but i did for this one
I know my money is wel paid and hope that "dutchman" hoe wrote it will use it to improve it.

[thippe]

I've had great results...only burned 4 movies so far.

I just tried Bourne Identity last night, and selected DTS for the audio track. But my receiver does not recognize the copy as DTS...so does the program not work for DTS??

It's not really a big deal to use the regular 5.1 surround instead, just wondering if anyone else tried this.

[mikef07]

My question to all?

Unless you are copying a Series why would anyone want menus. If all you have are the movies anyways why are menus needed?

I hate the menus. They take 30 seconds to start up sometimes. I love hitting play and then movie starts.

[kitty]

Menus are a personal preference - keep, remove, whatever you want.

My understanding is the audio is copies 1:1, NO processing so if you chose DTS or AC3 or whatever you get what you selected. Check your settings. Only the video gets processed according to the website.

[gobama]

I just did the Complete First Season of Sanford & Son. There are 2 original dvd's in this set, and I backed them up to 2 discs. The first disc is over 3 hours, but looks good enough for me. I don't personally want the menus, just the main feature is fine for me. 8)

[FT Shark]

I just tried Bourne Identity last night, and selected DTS for the audio track. But my receiver does not recognize the copy as DTS...so does the program not work for DTS??

Is you reciever DTS compatible? Have you ever played a DTS sound track on it?

I just used DVD2ONE on ET the other day. I selected the DTS sound track and all played well. The video was excellent and the DTS was superb.