When do I start stripping features?

[imd_man]

Hello! I have relatively new at DVD ripping, but my post is relevant to DIF4U, DCCE4U and ReAthorist, so this is why I am not posting in the newbie section.

I have for about a week now been trying to rip Raiders of the Lost Ark DVD-9 to a DVD-5. I have been using Doom's FULL DVD BACKUP GUIDE (Scenarist NT & the big 3) and I am having some problems.

First off, at what point do I start stripping features off the DVD? Do I rip everything in DIF4U in the beginning first step, with all VTSs and PGCs and audio tracks and subs? If so, then at what stage do I start selecting what I want to keep and discard?

Secondly, I thought I did everything correctly at around my 5th attempt, and when I played back the ISO (with Daemon) on my PC, and then on my Set top DVD player, it freezes half way and doesn't go to the next chapter (probably where the dual-layer break was originally). So I am not sure how to overcome this...I think it may have to do with VOB ID or something...

Sorry for the long post and thank you to anyone who reads it and offers some advice...even if it's a link to another forum/thread/site. I have searched through the forums, but my search string may have not been specific enough.

Thank you :)

[influenza]

Well first of all dif4u is not meant to strip things. It's meant to make a full backup. Only things you can leave subs and audio out, but not complete vtses or pgcs.

[allright]

The lockup sounds like something went wrong in the ifoupdate step, try repeating the step and make sure that you update the right files.

Influenza is right, dif4u is primarly made for full backup - but you can uncheck some of the extras if you want to - I would say that you shouldn't go under 2500 in bitrate in the main movie - but this is only my personally opionion.
I would drop trailers and so on to get a bit more bitrate - but I would keep interesting things such as directors comments, how the made the movie and so on.

[OvERaCiD23]

To strip, check out 2COOL's guides on blanking out complete VTSs. What I do is let DIF4U do it's thing on the items I'm going to re-encode. Then, after it finishes, I close ReAuthorist, go into the VIDEO_TS directory where DIF4U put the rest of the files, and start blanking out stuff I don't want. Then, re-open ReAuthorist and check my bitrate and all of that, after removing the features I wish to exclude. Seems to be the quickest way for me to do it and keep a valid DVD structure.

[imd_man]

Thank you all for replying! It is much appreciated. After doing some more searches on these forums, I found that I am not the only one with problems copying the Indiana Jones movies (particularily the first and last ones)
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?threadid=64927&highlight=indiana

I will do as suggested Influenza and copy everything with dif4u, leaving only the audio and sub tracks that I don't want.

Thanks again.