newbie clarification(s) needed

[sturmie]

being a newbie is never easy...that being said, i've been reading around this forum for about a week or so now and had a few questions as to what people are referring to (and some questions in general)...


what's the "re-sizing" issue in IC?
is this referring to the fact that IC won't let u burn/convert a disc over 4.31GB even tho a DVDR/RW can hold 4.7GB?


follow-up to above question...does the reg hack fix this problem so that u can adjust the size to <4.31GB?
are all the reg hacks available in the GUI that was just released?...v1.01 i think.


why does IC crash on certain DVDs?
i read thru the "What movies cause IC to crash" thread, but it seems that no one has figured out why. i have the Simpsons SE2 Disc4 and it bombs ~3GB into re-encoding while all the other Simpsons discs re-encode fine...Pinnacle support basically says, "we can't ya help, b/c it's a copyrighted DVD"...i can understand their point, but i'm not asking "how to" copy a DVD, i'm asking "why does the program crash" - regardless if it was copy protected at one point or not.


does converting DVD9 to DVD5 discs mess w/ the menu navigation at all?
basically, i converted Blue Crush as a test and everything seemed to go fine, but when i tried to play the extras in WinDVD, it would re-route me back to the beginning of the movie...but, when i played it my standalone Apex, it worked fine.


thanks for the help...sturmie

[MackemX]

Originally posted by sturmie
being a newbie is never easy...that being said, i've been reading around this forum for about a week or so now and had a few questions as to what people are referring to (and some questions in general)...

what's the "re-sizing" issue in IC?
is this referring to the fact that IC won't let u burn/convert a disc over 4.31GB even tho a DVDR/RW can hold 4.7GB?
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48906 answers the 4.7Gb issue as for filesizing with IC, it normally spits out files around the 4Gb mark with a predicted setting of 4.32Gb
Originally posted by sturmie

[b]follow-up to above question...does the reg hack fix this problem so that u can adjust the size to <4.31GB?
are all the reg hacks available in the GUI that was just released?...v1.01 i think. [/QUOTE I think all the hacks are there but apparently the hacks still don't fix the undersizing issue. I set mine all to full analysis of DVD and no savequality and it still spat out a 4.18Gb DVD from a predicted 4.52Gb

[QUOTE]Originally posted by sturmie
why does IC crash on certain DVDs?
i read thru the "What movies cause IC to crash" thread, but it seems that no one has figured out why. i have the Simpsons SE2 Disc4 and it bombs ~3GB into re-encoding while all the other Simpsons discs re-encode fine...Pinnacle support basically says, "we can't ya help, b/c it's a copyrighted DVD"...i can understand their point, but i'm not asking "how to" copy a DVD, i'm asking "why does the program crash" - regardless if it was copy protected at one point or not.nobody really knows, but how do you actually rip it and do you feed this directly to IC after ripping?. The question here is why do some people suffer from crashing yet others have not suffered once like me

Originally posted by sturmie
does converting DVD9 to DVD5 discs mess w/ the menu navigation at all?
basically, i converted Blue Crush as a test and everything seemed to go fine, but when i tried to play the extras in WinDVD, it would re-route me back to the beginning of the movie...but, when i played it my standalone Apex, it worked fine.all depends on how your DVD player reacts to an invalid DVD structure. Did you remove titles using IC?, but there are some problematic DVD's

[fusion007]

is this referring to the fact that IC won't let u burn/convert a disc over 4.31GB even tho a DVDR/RW can hold 4.7GB?


a disc can hold upto 4.38 gigabytes of information (NOT 4.7GB what the disc labels claim 4.7GB is achieved by tweaking the numbers and using 1,000 in calculations between megabyte and gigabyte, when the correct number to be used should be 1,024)




taken from afterdawn.

[sturmie]

MisterX,

danke for the info...i understand how the re-sizing works now - kind of like how a 100GB hdd shows up in Windows as a 93.5GB drive :).

as far as The Simpsons goes, i used DVD Decrytper to rip all the files (VOBs, IFOs, etc) to the hdd and then fed the first IFO into IC to start the re-encoding...like i said, all the other Simpsons discs work fine and i haven't *knock on wood* had any other DVD9 discs fail...it's just weird.

also, i never take anything out of the re-encoding process except the non-English subtitles and the AC3 Stereo audio tracks...everything else stays. since i've installed .114, i now compress the extras down to 30% to leave the most available for the main movie - usually ~75%, which i think YOU mentioned as being a good percentage for quality ;).


thanks again...sturmie