When to use DVD2ONE (new comers)

[rhuala2]

*For all you experienced users, ignore this post. Everything has been covered before in one form or another. This is for new users only*

I have backed up over a 100 DVD's using all types of methods, transcoding, splitting, IFOEdit editing ..etc. I Just finished trying DVD2ONE and am quite impressed. Especially the job it does in re-encoding to optimize the DVD size. It's not perfect but it does a pretty good job, and does it fast.

In the other big thread about who has used DVD2ONE there is a lot of arguing back and forth about when to use it and how it performs and how it handles quality. Here's how I would break down when it should be used, jmo:

1. Movie is less than 4.3GB -> use DVD Decrypter, do ISO read then write

2. Movie is greater than 5.1GB and your willing to loss slight quality -> Use DVD2ONE

3. Movie is between 4.3 GB and 5.1GB and u want exact copy -> use IFOedit and strip the everything but the main sound. Follow this guide : http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/userguides/129774.php

4. Movie is greater than 5.1 GB and you want to keep perfect quality -> Use IFOEdit and Split to 2 DVD-R's. Follow this guide: http://www.doom9.org/ , Guides -> DVD and miniDVD Guides -> Copying a DVD-9 to 2 DVD±Rs

5. Movie is greater than 5.1 GB but you want to re-author and add your own menus or want slightly better quality than #2 -> Transcode using TMPGEnc or CCE using this guide: http://digital-forums.com/dvd2dvdr/intro.htm

Hope that covers everything, and explains when to use DVD2ONE and when it excels. I now use it for probably 30% of my DVD's. If I have a comedy or so-so action movie thats large where a slight quality drop is fine DVD2ONE fits the bill. DVD2ONE drops the quality a bit, but who cares it's hardly noticable (my wife can't tell) yet it's very fast. I am quite impressed and it's going to save me a lot of time. Even though all the re-encoding I do is always at night when I'm asleep, I still perfer DVD2ONE. Saves having to re-author and compile when I get up which can be an hour.

Hope this reduces some confusion on what to use for any DVD you may have.

rhuala

[rhuala2]

Just out of curiousity does anyone have a method that they feel is significantly better than what I have described above...

Always willing to learn something new. Thanks.

rhuala

[NYPlayer]

You can use DVD2one to do this why use Ifoedit?. If after you strip the unwanted audio files and they will fit on 1 DVD-r dvd2one will not transcode.


3. Movie is between 4.3 GB and 5.1GB and u want exact copy -> use IFOedit and strip the everything but the main sound. Follow this guide : http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/userguides/129774.php

[rhuala2]

That's good to know. I thought it might try to transcode, wasn't sure if it was smart enough. Next time I get a DVD in that range I'll give it a go. Thanks...

rhuala

ps. How can u be sure it's not re-encoding?

[dilligaf]

Came across a movie dvd2one had troubles with. It had 8 vobs spread across 4 pgc's, in the dvd2one selection it showed 4 x movies at ~30 mins each. In the end, ripped the 8 vobs, demuxed the m2v & ac3 with vobedit, re-authored with ifoedit (with a quick '5min a chapter' celltimes.txt file). This gave me a 6~7Gb movie, then gave it the dvd2one treatment which shrank it down to 4.36Gb burned with Nero. The movie to watch out for is Fried Green Tomatoes

[dbaker6165]

#1 and #2 and # 3 are the best options to have if you dont want to spend all day copying a movie (you already own)

[sullen]

IfoEdit has a bug and won't work on all movies. I found this out the hard way. I wasted like 4 blanks on Scorpion King. That movie and 12 Monkeys will NOT work with IfoEdit. The mess up around 70 minutes and then freeze. It is not the burning program or the media, it is IfoEdit that does this. It has to do something with NTSC Film movies or something. I just gave up on IfoEdit and started re-encoding everything to make sure it worked right until DVD2One came along. Now I use it for everything. I just want the movies backed up so it does what I want in the time I have. The longest movie I have done was Fight Club which turned out rather well even though it was quite dark and a bit long. DVD2One is like the Ron Popeil of encoding. Small and kicks ass for what it does. "Just set it and forget it."