load/save job

[fredthompson]

It would be really nice if there was a way to save and load the settings in the removal screen. For really complex jobs, sometimes you just have to walk away to let your brain cool. It would also be real helpful for rebuilding back to full size for hard drive playback or use with higher-density storage mediums.

I've just realized how important this information is. Now I'm burning as data discs, not DVD-Video and including a text file in the root. It has a format like this:

DVDStripper 0.2.0 Settings - DiscTitle

  Item List    Menu Item List

 1- 5 remove     1- 4 both
 6-14 disc 1     5- 8 remove
15-17 disc 2     9-11 both
18-21 both      12-14 disc 1
22-53 disc 1    15    disc 2
54-84 disc 2    16-43 both
85-87 disc 1    44    disc 1
88-93 disc 2    45-47 disc 2
94-96 both
97-98 disc 2

Without these kinds of records, it will be a real bear to try to re-construct the original data. This is a real example from a medium complexity source disc. I've seen some with more than 550 items. Try figuring that out from scratch!

 

[MackemX]

If you think about it, you don't really need teh list as you have already removed what you don't want . Between the 2 DVD's, the only thing you have is the content you wished to kept so you just have to merge them

if you could load the 2 DVD's into DVDStripper, they will both have the same structure and basically if a cell from DVD1 contains video and it doesn't in DVD2 then it DVD1's cell will be kept. The same would happen if it was reversed, DVD2's cell would be kept etc

rebuilding is just a case of merging the 2 DVD's and whichever has the content will be kept if one has missing content

I hope you follow

 

[fredthompson]

Yes, that's how I expect a "reversal" of the split would work but since it doesn't exist in DVDStripper yet, I'm keeping the records. A wrinkle to this is that sometimes an "empty" source element has a length less than 10. As such, it takes up LESS space to leave it in than to delete it. That would have to be accounted for in the combining process or there would be the potential to re-combine to a size greater than DVD9...or the delete function modified to make smaller stubs...

Oh, actually, it would be better if the larger of either disc's elements was kept unless one is determined to be a stub and the other is smaller than it. That way, items which have been processed by DVDShrink or similar to fit on a DVD5 would be replaced by a larger version if it exists on the other disc.

(edit)
Worked on a title with almost 750 elements tonight. Luckily, things go in blocks but it's a real pain to have to click on each title to pick a specific disc. Group selection with a list would be nice. This title even has some play items in the menus. To keep the menuing safe, they had to go on both discs but I used DVDShrink on those items on one of the discs so it would fit on a DVD5. That's what I meant above.