just got my new toy (dvd burner)

[stewart2000]

well i just got me a dvd burner, so the idea of converting dvds to mpg 1 for vcd are gone :)

some tips please on the best method to copy dvd's, mostly tv episode disks, eg babylon5, stargate ect.

i have read a few things on here but not knowing the software people mention im in the dark there.

however, i from what i read i think i need dvd squeeze, but do i go from dvd to dvd direct, or is it best to dump it all onto harddrive first? (i have a dvd drive and a cd rom that reads dvds)

i was thinking along the lines of only backing up the main part of the disk, (episodes and menu)
i know the *.vob hold the episodes, but what file is the menu?
thanks for any help guys

[dragongodz]

avoid dvd squeeze.

instead go to the "DVD and miniDVD" section of this forum.

for dvd9 to dvd5 you can go with a transcoder(dvdshrink(free), instantcopy(comercial)) which is fast and can give good quality when not reducing too much, or full encoding(DVD-RB etc) which can give much better results for heavy compression but will take much longer and can use different encoders (QuEnc(free),CCE(comercial)).

so check out the section i mentioned but have a good read before asking anything there.