The Basics For A Guy Feeling Stupid Please...

[GhostPoet]

I am so unbelievably confused. I bought my dvd burner thinking "ok yea...i'll just get my dvds, use a little program..click a button that will convert it for me and send it to my hard drive...stick a blank dvd-r in and use MyDvd to burn it to the disc. no problem! easy!"

um...man was I wrong. I downloaded dvdshrink...which supposibly is easy to use..and i'm sitting there drooling with a blank look on my face :)

Is there like...a step by step guide that can tell me how to transfer a dvd movie onto my hd and then onto a dvd-r?

also one for transfering Avi files to dvd-rs as well. (I have a movie that is 700megs and it's 2 files..each file is that size)

any help would be GREATLY appreciated :(

also..I don't want to lose any quality...so I'd probably have to cut the movie in half.....somehow...

oh yea, forgot another thing..when I use dvdshrink..I get a folder with a bunch of files that I have no clue what to do with :) MyDvd seems to not want to open then.

[jggimi]

I have a few suggestions. Taken in order, these should get you on the road to results. Calm yourself. Transcoding is complicated. If breathing deeply doesn't work, then I recommend a relaxing adult beverage (assuming that consumption meets your legal and moral standards).

Doom9's guide pages have a section called DVD Basics (http://www.doom9.org/dvd-basics.htm). This points to about 14 guides on things like DVD structures, aspect ratios, and other important things. You won't be an expert by the end of reading these guides, but you won't be a complete newbie, either. You'll be able to throw around terms like "VOB stream" or "16:9" and have an inkling of what that means.

Doom9's guide pages also have some DVD Backup Guides (http://www.doom9.org/mpg/dvdbackup-guides.htm). This includes a step-by-step guide to DVD Shrink (http://www.doom9.org/mpg/dvdshrink-main.htm), the tool you are trying to use.

Once you've run into the inevitable trouble or confusion by using the guide, you'll be able to ask specific questions for clarification, or you'll be able to point to an area where something went wrong. Because you'll be using a guide, there will probably be a lot of folks who will be able to help you, and will ask you to post the appropriate log files or other information that should get you straightened out fairly quickly.

Have a second adult beverage before posting, if you're not calm again.
(Thanks for editing the title.)

[Buddy]

When u use schrink you have to incluid the video_ts.ifo and bup in the files schrink gives you.
I strip the movie of everything I don't want with ifoedit and when the file is still to large I use schrink.
I've tryed what they say in help but I don't get a disk that is readable either because the ifo and bup are missing. I use the ifo and bup from the stripped and burn it with prassi or recordnow max.:D
Still working in my desktop player.:p :p

[GhostPoet]

Originally posted by jggimi
I have a few suggestions. Taken in order, these should get you on the road to results. Calm yourself. Transcoding is complicated. If breathing deeply doesn't work, then I recommend a relaxing adult beverage (assuming that consumption meets your legal and moral standards).

Doom9's guide pages have a section called DVD Basics (http://www.doom9.org/dvd-basics.htm). This points to about 14 guides on things like DVD structures, aspect ratios, and other important things. You won't be an expert by the end of reading these guides, but you won't be a complete newbie, either. You'll be able to throw around terms like "VOB stream" or "16:9" and have an inkling of what that means.

Doom9's guide pages also have some DVD Backup Guides (http://www.doom9.org/mpg/dvdbackup-guides.htm). This includes a step-by-step guide to DVD Shrink (http://www.doom9.org/mpg/dvdshrink-main.htm), the tool you are trying to use.

Once you've run into the inevitable trouble or confusion by using the guide, you'll be able to ask specific questions for clarification, or you'll be able to point to an area where something went wrong. Because you'll be using a guide, there will probably be a lot of folks who will be able to help you, and will ask you to post the appropriate log files or other information that should get you straightened out fairly quickly.

Have a second adult beverage before posting, if you're not calm again.
(Thanks for editing the title.)

Thanks! That's actually helping. I must have missed this one in my panic and frustration.:p