DVD backup?

[tmarcus]

Hi,
Hope i'm in the right place. I've been making backups of my dvd's using dvd decrypter and dvd2one. The backups consist of just the movie and when I play them they go right to the movie. My question is now that I have a dual layer drive and disks, how can I backup the movie without compressing it. I want the movie uncompressed with no extras. Thanks, Tony

[Manngo]

Not clear for me.
You use DL writer with DL disks. You don't need to do anything. Use DVDDecrypter and copy to ISO, than write the ISO.
If you strip the menu and other things, your disk won't be full, but you can't use the rest of the space.
If this is what you want to do, you can use decrypter in IFO mode to demux streams and than you simply reauthor with some authoring program.

[CWR03]

In most cases, your DVD will be uncompressed anyway with your method. I'm unfamiliar with DVD2One, but with DVD Shrink the amount of compression is displayed, and if it shows none your backup will be 1:1. It's certainly your own business what you do with your expensive DL disks, but I personally wouldn't waste them on a "movie only" backup - for that I use single layer and XviD.

[tmarcus]

Thanks for the response. I wouldn't use the DL disks in all cases. I would use them on certain longer movies, say 3 hours or so, that I don't want compressed. I haven't used DVD shrink in a while, that would work? Tony

[ammck55]

Yes, Shrink would work handsomely for that purpose. Take a look at the Shrink Reauthor Guide (http://dvdshrink.info/reauthor_basic.php); following it, you can strip off all the extas and bring your applied compression down to very clean levels. Occasionally, after stripping everything you don't want/need, no compression is needed.

Look over the selection of guides when you get over there, you might even want to dabble with the compilation features of Shrink. There are a number of other transcoders available, these days, but Shrink still holds up with the best of them.

ammck55

[tmarcus]

Thanks,
I had used Shrink a few years ago. I didn't like the set compression levels and settled on DVD2One. Tony

[setarip_old]

I had used Shrink a few years ago. I didn't like the set compression levelsThe final version (3.2.xxx) of DVD Shrink has adjustable compression levels...