DVD to DVDR method. Works 100 percent of the time

[skunk]

I'm not telling anybody here anything new. I just wanted to share my success story. I have been reading forms here for months trying to make decent backups of my movies without spending an entire day on each one.

Final solution for anyone that just wants to put togther something that works.

DVDDecrypter. Most say rip the whole disk. I just let it pick the main movie in file mode and click decrypt. Saves some time since the extras are going to be stripped anyways. I have a big harddrive so you can put one after another in and each DVD will be labeled in its own directory for re-encoding later.

DVD2ONE V1.0.0. I hear everyone say that they see this and that. The quality is terrible etc... Maybe its my hardware, maybe I cant tell the difference. But I have put both the original and the copy in side by side and freeze framed them in the same place and I cant see the difference on my 36" Sony XBR. Even on the Matrix which I thought I would cause the original was about 8gig, looks perfect to me.

Nero. The latest version. I hear people complain about it too. But I have had not one failure although it seems that ever other time I click to burn, I get a message that states "Your about to burn a multisession CD continue?" or sometimes it says "You don't have enough room to write on this DVD unless you want to finalize it after its done. Do you want to finalize?" or sometimes it just burns the damn thing. Reguardless it doesn't seem to affect the playback.

I am using the following hardware.

AMD 1.2Ghz on a MSI K7T2 system board with the VIA KT133 chipset. (which I am not happy with but for other reasons not related to this)
ATI Radeon 7500
80 Gig IDE Seagate Baracuda drive
HP DVD 200i (Have also tested the 300i)
Memorex DVD+R 50pack spindles
available at BEST Buy for 99.00 Part number 3202 5557

My player is a Sony NS400D (have also tested the copies on APEX and Pioneer with no issues)

Total time is about 1 hour for the copy.

15 or so minutes for the RIP
20 or so for the DVD2ONE conversion
and the rest to write.

As I said above, I batch copy. So I may read in 10 or so at a time to my drive, convert each to its own directory and then batch write them one after the other. But basically I use 3 simple programs and have created over 40 DVD's with 0 percent failure. Zero.

All needed artwork is available at www.cdcovers.cc. The have scanned in everything. Its free, but sometime slow.

I hope this helps anyone looking for a simple solution. It works great for me. Thanks to all the posters who have helped me get to this point. Without this forum I would have never have made it.

Now if we can just get DVD2ONE to do episode disks.

[ghoster]

i use the same method. done over 50 dvds using that method. only had a problem with one. that was apocalypse now it was a 3 hour 20 minute flim. the rest of the dvds like lotr green mile the quality was awesome.