After making over 400 + DVD's This is my findings.

It's really none of my business, but, If YOU created the DVD's - why did YOU put the nag screens in just to have to remove them later?

Use Prassi PrimoDVD. Nero is fine too. As is RecordNow Max. Do a DISC COPY. Put original in burner to copy to HD. Takes maybe 5-10 minutes. Put in blank when asked, 4x is 15 minutes. Safest, fastest method.

On-the-fly is faster, but at 4x you'll get a coaster count, even when using top shelf media like MXL, TY, MCC and others (though smaller count with best media).

DVDXCOPY is for newbies that haven't learned better methods yet. Which is fine, I guess. But now you know different.

store all your dvd images on a hard disk (a 1/2 terabyte) should be fine . then just burn the image as and when needed. ALso chuck out the plextor its slower than the pope (i read).
disk duplicators run at a few hundred bucks as well.

If you need multiple copies of a single DVD then the fastest way is to RIP it to your HDD using ISO MODE in DVD Decrypter because once you have that ISO IMAGE file you can keep burning copies from it until you are done ... then delete the ISO IMAGE file.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

Bean-O

Originally Posted by madvideos

thanks for the positive feedback. I also use DVD decryptor , dvdshrink, and nero vision, I guess I am doing it the fastest way then. Copying the video_ts folder to drive. Just seeing if I can shake out some secrets.
Thanks

why would you even need dvd decryptor or dvd shrink if these are your own dvd's you made -- since you could not have burned a dual layer that would need shrinking ..

i smell ARGH MATIE

Originally Posted by BJ_M

Originally Posted by madvideos

thanks for the positive feedback. I also use DVD decryptor , dvdshrink, and nero vision, I guess I am doing it the fastest way then. Copying the video_ts folder to drive. Just seeing if I can shake out some secrets.
Thanks

why would you even need dvd decryptor or dvd shrink if these are your own dvd's you made -- since you could not have burned a dual layer that would need shrinking ..

i smell ARGH MATIE

I hate to be an ass ... I really do ... but I must ...

I hope that if you think this is a WAREZ situation BJ_M that you also reported it otherwise to make such a comment WITHIN the thread and NOT report it is grounds for a YELLOW CARD is it not?

I mean ... as a mod BJ_M ... I sorta kinda expect better of you

Of course this is all said with tongue firmly in cheek :P

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

huh ?


i was just expressing an opinion in a nice friendly way ..

i still tried to help out but really could add nothing to the mix..



i have no reason to yellow card anyone (yet) in this thread ..

Originally Posted by BJ_M

huh ?

i was just expressing an opinion in a nice friendly way ..

i still tried to help out but really could add nothing to the mix..

i have no reason to yellow card anyone (yet) in this thread ..

Well I was referring to past threads where people posted that they thought it was WAREZ but never reported it. Which is sorta kinda what you just did.

There was at least one (if not more threads) where that happened and those people got YELLOW CARDS for posting IN THE THREAD that they thought it was WAREZ but did not report it in that REPORT thread.

In short I was trying to be a wise ass :P

I'll shut up now and go away ...

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

Originally Posted by madvideos

Just seeing if I can shake out some secrets.
Thanks

(don't let this get around)

Originally Posted by madvideos

its all good. Thanks all. I need to shrink due to I want to use a lot more than two hours of video, after using Procoder to convert to VOB I group them until I get around 7 GB then I use shrink to shrink down to a dvd, the quality still looks great and I get more milage. I already use ISO and NRG images from my HD.

I guess you have everyone in this thread confused.

Procoder doesn't produce VOB files you can shrink with DVDShrink. At some stage you need to use an authoring program, either IFOEdit, or DVDLab or TMPGENC DVD Author, or MyDVD, or whatever. These are the programs that multiplex mpeg files into VOB and also add the navigation content.

If that's what you do, it's much better to select the appropriate bitrate during encoding, so that you don't exceed 4.36Gb and avoid Shrinking, which is an extra step and one that reduces quality.

A two hour video encoded at 8Mbps, authored and then shrinked to fit on a DVD has worse quality compared with the same video encoded at half that bitrate and authored.

What people are suggesting is that you encode at the proper bitrate to fit on a single disk and then author. Then keep these folders on disk and record them at will.

Originally Posted by BobK

You couldn't have tried very many different ways DVDXCopy was the fastest you found.

Agreed

BTW, PLEASE don't tell me you edited the VOB files over 400 + movies to remove the obligatory "This is a backup" message that appears when using DVDXCOPY

Try DVDShrink bro

Originally Posted by gmatov

Another thread, the "Sticky Warez", has people asking if, "Then we CAN report it as Warez?", as though their only purpose, now, is to seek out and report anything that smacks of Warez.

Lighten up, people. If all you want to be is the local, most well known snitch, keep on keeping on. Some of the posts, as the Mods keep replying in the "Report" thread, are not Warez, some of the, they give the benefit of the doubt, others, they see as genuine Warez, and do issue formal warnings.

But some of you are like the old woman who said there was lascivious sexual activity across the alley, and when the cops couldn't see it, said "Well, you just climb up on this chiffoniere and look again!"

I think a few people feel a bit of a responsibility to report suspicious threads - after all, no-one wants to see this wonderful resource shut down. The "Report This Post" thread was started specifically for problem members, posts or threads in an attempt to eradicate suspicious behavior. Did you notice that a lot of the posts in this thread say "Warez ?", meaning that the poster is not sure and asking for clarification from a mod ?

I'm starting to think that you are an angry man.

I must say thaat in response to the OP, it seems that there have been a few conflicting stories throughout this thread. For example, I find it hard to believe that you have authored a DVD from your own material, shrunk it to fit on 1 DVD, copied it with DVD X Copy and deleted the nag screens, reauthored and burnt again. All this when you could just encode to the correct bitrate to start with and use DVD Decrypter ISO modes, windows explorer to copy to your HD, or your favorite burning software to do a disc to disc copy.

IMO the quickest way to back up an already backed up DVD is DVD Decrypter ISO Read/ISO write.

Originally Posted by gmatov

Some of you, fulci lives, in particular, seem to have no more to contribute, as it is so easy to dupe a DVD, so are just patrolling to catch perps ...

**** YOU !

I have had some very recent posts where I have helped people how to do PAL DVD to NTSC DVD conversions ... how to re-encode from 4:3 widescreen to 16x9 widescreen, helped various people with capturing questions and blah blah blah

I even ... not that many posts ago ... tried to help YOU with some DVD-R MEDIA questions going so far as to suggest some stores you could go too since we live in more-or-less th same area.

So I take offense to you and your ******* bullshit.

I've heard this shit before from you ... this is the last straw!

YOU are the one no one likes. YOU are the ******* ******* that annoys people. YOU are the ******* problem.

Find someplace else to hang out but if you must continue to hang here then consider doing nothing more than reading ... no one wants to hear your fucked up bullshit crappola.

*******.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

You are in breach of the forum rules and are being issued with a formal warning.
/ Moderator BJ_M