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pani68
19th January 2007, 05:32
I have got a copy of the audio and video folders of a video DVD on my HDD (while copying I did not have a DVD player and I used to watch the movie on PC). Now I have a decent DVD writer and a home theater DVD player. Can anyone suggest how to copy the movie on my HDD to a DVD without losing quality. Being a newbie I do not know wheter any reencoding is required or not.

Please help.:eek:
CWR03
19th January 2007, 08:39
Can you not play the original DVD on your home theater, or are you just creating a back-up for your personal use?
prOnorama
19th January 2007, 09:14
Well if the DVD files are under 4.3 Gb or so you can burn it to single layer DVD so then you don't need to re-encode. If they're bigger then you can either re-encode/transcode or burn to a dual layer DVD disc.

ImgBurn (http://imgburn.com) can burn the VTS/VOB files from your HD to a DVD.

I think there's a guide in their forum if you need any help :)
wanguy2k
22nd January 2007, 04:52
If you did a straight copy of the VOB files to your hard disk, they may be more than 4.7 gig, so you'll need something to shrink them down to the size needed for a single-layer disk. (Unless you're burning to a dual-layer disc). Try dvdshrink.

http://www.mrbass.org/dvdshrink/
pani68
1st February 2007, 12:02
If you did a straight copy of the VOB files to your hard disk, they may be more than 4.7 gig, so you'll need something to shrink them down to the size needed for a single-layer disk. (Unless you're burning to a dual-layer disc). Try dvdshrink.

http://www.mrbass.org/dvdshrink/

I copied the content of the DVD directly to a folder in my hard disk. The total content of the folders is 6.8 GB. I wonder how the contents were put to a 4.7 GB DVD. Does direct copying increase the file size?

Please suggest how to copy the DVD (video) be without increasing the size of the contents.

Thanks.

Pani.
wanguy2k
1st February 2007, 15:15
The original DVD was a dual-layer DVD, so it has the capacity to hold twice as much data. If you want to fit the 6 gig movie onto a single-layer DVD you need a tool to shrink the size of the video files. DVDShrink will do this, and it's free. You can strip all the unneeded menus, extras, languages off the disk and generate an ISO file you can use to write the new DVD.
pani68
3rd February 2007, 18:20
Thank you. I'll try to follow the steps.