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30th August 2008, 06:38 | #1 | Link |
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Lossless backup guide?
Is there a guide on doing a lossless backup of DVD's? ive searched and cant find anything. I ripped a dvd using dvd decrypter, of which the VOB's played fine, but when i tried to convert it to a lossless format (im guessing h264?) using handbrake, it gave me "no titles found" and its faq says that means my files are still encrypted. I dont really know what to do at this point, i just wanted to make a lossless backup of just the movie into a single playable file, no special stuff like subs/languages/features.
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The only way I know of to make a lossless copy of a DVD is to clone it by making an image (preserving the original layer brake) and burning it. DVD -> h.264/xvid/divx is a lossy process. Also, DVD decrypter is no longer developed and cannot handle newer protection schemes. Use DVDFab or AnyDVD to rip instead.
If you want to make a lossless backup of a DVD, make an image of it using imgburn and mount it with daemon tools or VirtualCloneDrive. |
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Ok, i meant lossless as in there is no quality loss from the VOB files into a single container format, and maybe if possible with some reduction in filesize.
I was looking at this http://compression.ru/video/codec_co...s_2007_en.html and it says that FFV1 codec is the best lossless compression format. Apparently its included in FFDshow, but im looking at it and i dont see how im supposed to encode my VOB's, or anything for that matter, through it. Is there a guide somewhere for this? |
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MPEG-2 isn't a very efficient format, so if you'll tolerate a small amount of quality loss, you can re-encode to (say) H.264 and save a lot of space. |
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well, lets see, went ahead and took your advice and encoded my VOB through super to mp4 using x264. After 4 hours of encoding, my 6gb 80 minute file is still being encoded, and its now at 7gb.
Wow, thats one hell of a compression scheme you got there. Anyone know of a decent lossy codec that actually compresses? Or i would be happy to leave the VOB as is if i could just get it into a MKV container, but im only seeing a MKV to VOB program, theres nothing about converting VOB to MKV, and virtualdub doesnt accept VOB so thats out of the question. Last edited by ettin; 2nd September 2008 at 23:44. |
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Use PGC Demux to demux the video, audio, and subtitles; then use MKVToolnix to remux into an mkv. There will be no loss in quality. You can also use VirtualDub, but you will need avisynth and dgindex so its kinda tricky, and it wont be lossless.
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Filesize has nothing to do with the "compression scheme"--you pick the filesize by picking the associated bitrate. |
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Anyways, every guide ive ever read on bitrate vs quality states that 8000 is pretty much the DVD quality standard before it starts to take a dive, so if your telling me that a bitrate of 8000 is going to produce a larger file than the source, then i guess technology still has a long way to go before i can turn this VOB into something nice yet manageable. Still, i find it hard to believe that no one has developed a quality lossy codec yet, especially considering the amount of 720p mkv rips floating about the net nowadays. |
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I see you defended its quality vehemently, so ill take your word for it, but i notice you didnt correct my ascertains about its speed. Is that to mean im correct? It takes 8 hours to encode a one hour movie, where CCE could do the same in 20 minutes (granted their encoding to two different formats)? Is that an issue with your encoder, or with H264 in general?
I apologize for what came off as an attitude, its just frustrating to spend hours waiting on something just to have it fail and all you get is an "you should have known that already" attitude from others who are supposed to be helping. This is a newbie forum after all, if your going to help people, you have to assume they know nothing. |
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Obviously, there's a balance to be struck in the middle. Try out Ripbot264, AutoMKV, or MeGUI. They all have options for profiles with reasonable speeds.
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3rd September 2008, 07:20 | #18 | Link |
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This might be a shot in the dark, but why don't you try the demo version of CloneDVDmobile. The latest beta uses ffmpeg and compresses to x264/divx/xvid... and supports the MP4 and AVI containers.
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Hm. i might have to. I downloaded AutoMKV, made sure i had all the dependencies, loaded up my VOB (I joined them into one using VOBmerge, which plays fine), set it up according to THE NEWBIE GUIDE http://www.kayakingcoach.com/GUIDE.htm, but with the container as MKV (x264) and the audio as AC3, and set it to encode.
That DOOM9 approved enough? Well, lets see, according to the "convert file" box, ETA is 38 hours, at a speed of .05x realtime. My specs are 3ghz P4, 3gb ram, x1900 radeon, XP pro. Not top of the line but not exactly an apple II either. Hm, no, 38 hours would be a good thing, that would actually insinuate that somewhere in time this operation would be complete, but i do believe its just stopped working altogether. now what :/ |
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test the procedure with very short input files, 1 minute should be plenty, when you get your xyz method perfected, go with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, which is 2:51 i belive
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