Burn burn burn...

[maxcheese]

Hello everyone!

I've been reading for a while on this forum, but there is so much info that I'm now totally confused! I understand that the first step to copy a DVD (with menus and all) is to rip it. I used DVD Decrypter and it gave me a whole bunch of files. Then the other step is to shrink it. How should I know if it needs to? I understand I should use DVD shrink for this. Finally, I have to burn. I downloaded CloneDVD for this. DVD Decrypter asks for a 4,27gigs free drive to 'unpack' the files. When it's finished I open Clone DVD and choose the directory where the files are. It reds the files but it asks for a 4,27 gig free disk space too. Am I compressing the movie multiple times here and loosing quality? I've read multiple forums here but none of them could provide clear and straight-to-the-point info.

Thank's for advising!

 

[mersup80]

lets see if i can help

max cheese
this is how i back up my dvds with menus and all
you will need hard drive space so make sure you have at least 15 gigs
first
use dvd decrypter and decrypt all the files
after that is done load your decrypted files in to dvd2one
select full disc select your audio and let it compress it
after that i burn it to dvd with copytodvd
i have yet to have one fail on me yet
and no quality loss
this process did very well on my band of brothers back up

hope this helps
p.s this is the short version of a guide i found a while back i just wish i knew who wrote it so i could give them credit
mersup80

 

[ChickenMan]

A few simple points you need to understand, if the DVD is less than 4.38gig in size (thats real gig, right click on the VIDEO_TS folder and go to properties, it will tellyou exact size in GIG) then its just a simple matter of using DVD Decrypter in IFO Read mode to mak an iso image and then use IFO Write mode to burn it to a dvdr blank. You end up with a "cloned" copy identical to the original.

Only if the movie is greater than 4.37gig will you need to "compress" or re-encode/transcode it down in size to fit to a DVDR. Shrink is a quick and easy option for people new at it as it produces good results and its free also. Then you burn out the files with Nero in UDF/ISO mode, or with RNM/RN Dx, etc.