Problems with Instant Copy, I may have an answer

[northcat_8]

I was having a problem with instant copy losing part of my movie. I figured it out and thought I would post it incase anyone else had the same issue.

I am only working with the movie here, no menu's, no extra's...just the movie.

I ripped Bourne Identity with Decrypter. It ripped to 5.4 GB. I used Instant copy to shrink it and lost the end of the movie, about the last 8 minutes. But the time on WinDVD said 1:58:00 which is the length of the original movie. So there is my problem...

I took the pdi files created by Instant Copy 7.01.114, converted them to an ISO using PDI to ISO.

Used Daemon tools to mount the ISO and played it on the virtual DVD drive using WinDVD 4. (movie still stopped at same place, 8 minutes still to go but time said it was over)

I then ripped the virtual DVD with decrypter (in file mode). This gave me my smaller VOB files and gave me fewer than I had when I ripped originally, they should be they were shrunk in IC7.

Once ripped, I used IFOedit to create the IFO's, GOT VTS SECTORS!!!!!!!!! and saved my new IFO's. (already region free from the first rip)

Opened WinDVD 4 to check the video, it played perfect, quality was outstanding it looks as good as the original but I'm a few beers in now too.(better than atari...um...i mean DVD95copy).

Used Imgtools 0.89 to create an image file

Burned with decrypter. It's playing in my stand alone right now.

Apparently the problem was that when the video got shrunk by instant copy 7 it threw off my IFO file in such a way that all it knew was that the movie was 1 hour 58 minutes long and when it reached that time stamp the IFO told my player that the movie was over.

And on a side note the debate over DVD2ONE, DVD95copy and Instant Copy 7...it's not even close, IC7 is the clearest one I've used, I used the other 2 and both looked so pixelated that I could have been playing pong, but the sound was fine

Anyway, that's what I did. If it helps anyone then great, if it was common knowledge then sorry for wasting your time, I'm retarded.

[judgmentday]

I decrypted Red Dragon in File mode all files selected to my hard drive, once in there I used IC7.01.114 to shrink it, then I converted the PDI files to the ISO image, mounted the drive but I wasn't successful playing it thru PowerDVD, so I extracted the files again using PDITool, this way I could play it with PowerDVD but I noticed that some parts of the movie were letter box and others were wide screen. I was watching the movie in letter box format and suddenly it will change to wide screen. What do you guys think was the problem? I noticed that even in the decrypted copy it would do the same.