DVD9>5 of Blade Trinity

[CrisCr0ss]

Ok I have blade trinity collecters edition and i want to make a backup. Its in dvd9 format. It contains the extended edition and the theatrical version. For the purpose of the backup i just want the extended edition. How would i strip away the theatrical version keep everythng else except for extras and useless audio so that i can use dvdrebuilder + cce to convert to dvd5

[cetheriel]

don't have the dvd itself, but i guess i can help you.
let's see, try dvd decrypter, ifo mode, select the extended version at the input frame (look for its vts/pgc by its runtime). i really doubt it will exceed the 4.3gb from a regular dvd5, but use the stream processing feat to remove unnecessary audio and sub (audio matter for size, though sub means nothing). that will rip from a .ifo, some .vob and a .bup (maybe) (and also some txt, ignore them).
ok use ifoedit (ifoedit.com) to repair your .ifo (open the vts_01_1.ifo), check your subs and audio, click 'get vts sectors' (also a nice time to remove region protections) and voilá.

[jel]

to be honest, the extended version does not contain a great deal of extra footage than the standard version ....

personally, if you have the pro version of dvdrebuilder (as it can re-author ILVU titles such as blade trinity), i believe it would be far simpler to back-up both versions of the movie as the bitrate decrease by keeping the ILVU will be negligable, and use the segment editor to remove the unwanted extras, audio etc.

hth
j

[cetheriel]

i tried compressing with dvdshrink today, it is easy as cake (way easier than the other way i explained, though you should try ripping only the extended version)

[CrisCr0ss]

@jel, do you think? I've never ran an ILVU title through DVDRebuilder before.

But to my idea id rather have the highest bitrate because the extended is pretty much theatrical +. Its not like whats included in theatrical isnt in the extended so i see no point of keeping the theatrical.

Ill try with shrink to remove just the theatrical and see if it works. Otherwise ill just try ur method ceth.

[Mug Funky]

IIRC, the bitrate of (both) features is very low (around 3.5 mbps!!).

you could probably just DVDshrink, ditch one feature and the extras (who cares how they made it? those things are all the same :)) and you'll be able to fit it on a DVD-5 without any recompression, so the quality will be the same as the original.

in addition, you could do it again, but this time keep the extended feature and the extras and burn a "disc 2"...

to be honest, it's not really worth it on this movie :) the DVD is interesting only in that it contains 2 features on one disc, and has interesting menus.

[CrisCr0ss]

ye it may not be but its kind of gonna be borrowed by some family and well i know it will get trashed somehow which is why im doing it in the first place. I fired it up in shrink and it has no way of seperating the extended/theatrical version it does however contain lots of soundtracks which was able to reduce compression from 60%->88%

However i'm gonna try Ceth's method see how it goes run in it in PDVD if it wrks then ill burn otherwise ill probably just try the DVDRebuilder method.

May I add i have DVDRemake, would it be possible to remove the Theatrical version within it?

[jel]

...i'm gonna try Ceth's method see how it goes ...be warned though that you will lose all menu functionality with this method.
have you tried using dvd remake to remove all unwanted audio/extras etc to see what the final size is? i can guarantee that keeping both versions will have very little impact on the overall size - from memory the biggest space wasters on this disc are the DTS, DD5.0 and multiple commentary tracks .....
... ditch one feature and the extras (who cares how they made it? those things are all the same :)).pfffttt ... speak for your self matey ... i happened to find the featurette on jessica biels work-out techniques very ... ermmm .... enlightening :p

[CrisCr0ss]

i ended up using dvddecrypter to rip in file mode then VobBlanker (dvdremake was crashing) to strip theatrical + extra stuff + DTS/director commentary/2.0 AC3

Then i fired up DVDShrink to compress it 98% so that it fits from 4.6 > 4.35 then i edited menus with menu edit and created iso with imgtools classic and burned with imgburn.

All seems great.