Sopranos to DVD guide?

[The Stinger]

Does anyone have any idea or have an easy way to take a series dvd and burn them to a DVDr? I have read all the forum posts and got a lot of help from many people, but most of them are confusing and a bit long. Is there any way to do this simple and easy?

[Gazorgan]

It's not hard. The Soprano's are DVD9's.

The conventional guide doesn't help, because you get 1 episode split on 2 disks.

Use DVDDecryptor and rip individual episodes. They average 55 minutes. Simply Re-Author at 2 eps/DVDR or re-encode and go for 3 eps/DVDR. Re-encoding to SVCD looks okay, they are a bit long for 1 CDR. However, XSVCD looks awesome, lots of still backgrounds in some places.

Soooo, re-encoding won't really lose quality. But 2 eps/DVDR would be a lot quicker.

[Marco33]

DVDXCOPY will do the job. It will put 2 episodes on each disk. Since they are already jamming the disk with 4+ hours of film re-encoding it will make it worse than it is.

Only problem is some of the Soprano disks DON'T have 4 episodes on them. Those you will have to do the old fashion way unless you want to waste a disk on one episode.

[mreed80]

I just did some Six Feet Under discs, same thing, but here are two ways.
1. use this guide, it works fine
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/146795.php

or

2. DVD Decryptor - rip out the main movie files
DVD2AVI - Open the VOBs you ripped out and save the project
- This will give you .d2v and a .wav file
Open these in TMPGE, then in the 'source range' just find the beginning and end of each episode and create a mpeg-2 file for each episode and burn them however you like.

That is the long way to do it, and I didn't get as good of results either.