altmind
12th October 2004, 04:18
I assume that this is the correct formum to post in because I am still fairly new at backing up my DVDs. I went to the computer store to get technical support for backing up my movie and then burn it onto a dvd that would be able to play in a DVD player. They told me that they couldn’t show me how to do that that because it ain’t legal to give advice, but it’s my movie that I want to back up. I tried the movies that I had and none of them worked to even load the file into the program to burn the movie onto a dvd and not only that,
the dvd burning program was totally confusing? They did tell me some things that I need to do. They looked at the file structure of my movies and told me that it was “raw”, whatever that means, but because I had a bunch of VOB files it would not work. They told me that it needs to be an MPEG file and then I will be able to burn it onto a DVD and it would be able to play on a DVD player. They told me the steps to take with the dvd burning software to get started on burning a DVD. They told me about DVD Shrink at the computer store. DVD Shrink is supposed to make a movie into a MPEG file, so I showed them that 1 movie that I used and it didn’t make it into an MPEG file. I did the “backup” thing, but I noticed that it said, “not encrypted.” I thought that backing it up was going to encrypt it, but apparently not. I tried to read the directions in doom9 and it was totally confusing. I probably just haven't found the right page, yet. On the page I was looking at said something that if the movie doesn’t need to be shrunk, go to dvd decrypter and I have used that for movies and apparently it is supposed to make the file into an MPEG and I tried that and it doesn’t become an MPEG. I tried a couple of different methods and the movie copies onto the hard drive like the way it is on the DVD, but it doesn’t become an MPEG file. There was a part in there that mentioned something about codec. Actually, I totally forgot about codec and heard that it was something that was needed to make divx files, but I have been able to successfully figure out how to make my movies into divx files, but I can’t figure out how to make movies into MPEGs. I have been able to use Robot4Rip and Gordian Knot to make my movies into divx files and I have been successful at that. I assume that I do knot use either of those programs to make my movies into MPEGs and use DVD shrink, but DVD shrink didn’t make my movie into an MPEG file. I have a movie that is small enough to fit on a 4.7 gigabyte DVD and would I still use DVD shrink to make the movie into an MPEG file? Also, I know that I downloaded codec, but don’t remember using it to make my movies into divx files. I went to the part in Doom9 where it mentions MPEGs and what they mentioned didn’t relate to converting what’s on a DVD to an MPEG. It was just confusing. I think the same thing is used for video CDs, but I ain’t sure? Is it possible to have an MPEG movie at 700 megabytes? Also, at the computer store, they told me that divx files can be converted to MPEG files, but you need a program that does that. What program does do that? It might be easier to make an MPEG file from a divx file? I will appreciate anyone who can give me instructions on how to do this.
the dvd burning program was totally confusing? They did tell me some things that I need to do. They looked at the file structure of my movies and told me that it was “raw”, whatever that means, but because I had a bunch of VOB files it would not work. They told me that it needs to be an MPEG file and then I will be able to burn it onto a DVD and it would be able to play on a DVD player. They told me the steps to take with the dvd burning software to get started on burning a DVD. They told me about DVD Shrink at the computer store. DVD Shrink is supposed to make a movie into a MPEG file, so I showed them that 1 movie that I used and it didn’t make it into an MPEG file. I did the “backup” thing, but I noticed that it said, “not encrypted.” I thought that backing it up was going to encrypt it, but apparently not. I tried to read the directions in doom9 and it was totally confusing. I probably just haven't found the right page, yet. On the page I was looking at said something that if the movie doesn’t need to be shrunk, go to dvd decrypter and I have used that for movies and apparently it is supposed to make the file into an MPEG and I tried that and it doesn’t become an MPEG. I tried a couple of different methods and the movie copies onto the hard drive like the way it is on the DVD, but it doesn’t become an MPEG file. There was a part in there that mentioned something about codec. Actually, I totally forgot about codec and heard that it was something that was needed to make divx files, but I have been able to successfully figure out how to make my movies into divx files, but I can’t figure out how to make movies into MPEGs. I have been able to use Robot4Rip and Gordian Knot to make my movies into divx files and I have been successful at that. I assume that I do knot use either of those programs to make my movies into MPEGs and use DVD shrink, but DVD shrink didn’t make my movie into an MPEG file. I have a movie that is small enough to fit on a 4.7 gigabyte DVD and would I still use DVD shrink to make the movie into an MPEG file? Also, I know that I downloaded codec, but don’t remember using it to make my movies into divx files. I went to the part in Doom9 where it mentions MPEGs and what they mentioned didn’t relate to converting what’s on a DVD to an MPEG. It was just confusing. I think the same thing is used for video CDs, but I ain’t sure? Is it possible to have an MPEG movie at 700 megabytes? Also, at the computer store, they told me that divx files can be converted to MPEG files, but you need a program that does that. What program does do that? It might be easier to make an MPEG file from a divx file? I will appreciate anyone who can give me instructions on how to do this.