Simpsons Season 1 Boxed Set Reencoding and Re-authoring. Need help.

[Chainmax]

A couple of months ago, I bought the complete first season of "The Simpsons" (I guess the PAL version since I bought it in Argentina) on a boxed DVD set. As you guys know, its quality doesn't even deserve to be qualified as mediocre.
What I intend to do is rip the DVDs, filter and reencode the video, and lastly burn an exact copy of my original discs (but with the enhanced video) on three DVD-Rs. Is this possible? If so, could someone point me to info on how to do it?

(note: don't worry about recommending me filters for the cleaning up, I'll ask that in the proper section of this forum).

[Matthew]

Well I'm inclined to think garbage in, garbage out, but anyway...

As you are applying filter's I'll presume you will be using avisynth/CCE. If you want to replicate the original DVD's structure then you may want to use DoItFast4U/DoCCE4U/ReAuthorist.

There are guides for this stuff on the main page, the forums are more for posting specific issues that aren't covered in the guides :)

[Chainmax]

Actually, I will use avisynth+TMPG. I don't know why so much people here prefer CCE. Maybe you could point me to a thread where this issue is explicitly discussed? I don't knowt what to put on the search engine in order to find such a thread.

Anyway, I am only starting to learn the ways of re-authoring, I'd be grateful if you could tell me exactly where to start looking, be it threads from the forum or guides in the main page.

[Matthew]

I'd be looking at these guides to start:

"DVD-9 -> 1 DVD±R - AKA REAL backups ;)

Quality over Speed (using CCE)
- using DVDMaestro - by Trilight, last updated 07/21/02
- using Scenarist NT - last updated 05/15/03
- using Scenarist NT, advanced procedures - last updated 05/15/03
- using Scenarist NT & the big 3 (DoItFast4U, DoCCE4U & ReAuthorist) - last updated 05/28/03"

Linked here:

http://www.doom9.org/mpg/dvdbackup-guides.htm

In terms of the specifics of your case it depends on the DVD structure. What I was getting at was that you should try the guides and if you run into troubles replicating the specific structure you face (they can vary quite a bit from DVD to DVD) then post with details. Otherwise it's a bit like saying "can you help me fix my car?" without outlining the problem :)

[Chainmax]

Thanks :).