mghtbgiant
6th January 2003, 06:14
is there a way to (or restated, how can i???) rip a DVD where the movie is larger than 4.7GB... but heres the catch.. i want to keep EVERYTHING in tact.. menus, chapters, special features.. im aware of the fact that some video re-encoding will have to take place, and although i haven't done much of that, im sure i can do it.
say there are 5 VOB files of movie.. each at 1,048 MB.. i just want to take those and re-encode them to reduce their size (with as little video loss possible) somehow maintain the chapter markers, yadda yadda..
if you could just re-encode certain VOB files (obviously talking m2v files) to reduce their size.. sometimes its a special feature that takes the disc over the limit. but, you would need to be able to maintain everything else about the file that was there before the change.
here is what im currently familiar with (no re-encoding).. i use DVDDecrypter 3.0 to rip DVD to hard drive. Then, i use VOBRator to find the junk.. IfoEdit 0.95 to do the magic.. and viola.. Nero makes me a joyus DVD of my own. BUT, this method obviously only works when a.) the entire DVD is under 4.7GB or b.) the movie itself is less than 4.7GB. i havent been able to get IfoEdit 0.9 or 0.95 to split to 2 DVD-Rs successfully.. i downloaded DVDXCopy (i think that was the prog) to do this, but i havent dont it.. ive been procrastinating the whole 1 DVD to 2 DVD-R leap. for obvious reasons, i could stomach an almost unnoticable (if at all) picture quality loss for the saving of the precious, hard-earned greenback.
i just read a thread about putting LOTR 2 DVD-9 on to 1 DVD-5 and that involved avisynth which i am not at all familiar with, but probably need to learn for this process..
anyway, after possible exhorbitant rambling.. heres what i want to do.. re-encode possibly individual VOB (m2v) files to reduce size, while maintaining chapter markers (or i guess i could just insert them myself if i had to.. here i come forums!!)
does this make sense? i will post more to reduce confusion if necessary.. is there a thread out there for this, or has someone done this that can let me in on the secret?
say there are 5 VOB files of movie.. each at 1,048 MB.. i just want to take those and re-encode them to reduce their size (with as little video loss possible) somehow maintain the chapter markers, yadda yadda..
if you could just re-encode certain VOB files (obviously talking m2v files) to reduce their size.. sometimes its a special feature that takes the disc over the limit. but, you would need to be able to maintain everything else about the file that was there before the change.
here is what im currently familiar with (no re-encoding).. i use DVDDecrypter 3.0 to rip DVD to hard drive. Then, i use VOBRator to find the junk.. IfoEdit 0.95 to do the magic.. and viola.. Nero makes me a joyus DVD of my own. BUT, this method obviously only works when a.) the entire DVD is under 4.7GB or b.) the movie itself is less than 4.7GB. i havent been able to get IfoEdit 0.9 or 0.95 to split to 2 DVD-Rs successfully.. i downloaded DVDXCopy (i think that was the prog) to do this, but i havent dont it.. ive been procrastinating the whole 1 DVD to 2 DVD-R leap. for obvious reasons, i could stomach an almost unnoticable (if at all) picture quality loss for the saving of the precious, hard-earned greenback.
i just read a thread about putting LOTR 2 DVD-9 on to 1 DVD-5 and that involved avisynth which i am not at all familiar with, but probably need to learn for this process..
anyway, after possible exhorbitant rambling.. heres what i want to do.. re-encode possibly individual VOB (m2v) files to reduce size, while maintaining chapter markers (or i guess i could just insert them myself if i had to.. here i come forums!!)
does this make sense? i will post more to reduce confusion if necessary.. is there a thread out there for this, or has someone done this that can let me in on the secret?