Episodal DVD Backup Information

[9mmruger1]

I have a question regarding do a episodal backup using RB. I want to have the movie and menus working with no extras, and I see that offered in the mode settings. My question is will RB know to keep all of the episodes or just the first one and think that the other 3 are extras?

There are some programs that will only recognize the first large titleset and then disregard the rest.

What would your best opinions be for this. I thank you, Buffy is wating for me.

Cheers. :thanks:

[TBL]

Well, it depends on the way the DVD is authored, all episodes in single or different titlesets. It will select the largest titleset. I think the recommendation is to NOT use movie&menus mode in episode discs.

I personally always use full disc mode and blank everything I won't need beforehand. Be careful doing it, however.

Edit: Of course you can use the included editor (doh!) to blank stuff and remove unwanted audio and subtitle streams.

[jdobbs]

I'm not sure what you mean by "some programs" -- as it is impossible for a program to distinguish the "features" from the "extras" in an episodic disc. The only way to look at it is by length -- and it is entirely possible for an "extra" to be longer than one of the episodes. So whatever program you know of that doesn't work that way would have to be endowed with some sort of magic. :)

The bottom line is -- if you are doing an episodic disc, the only way to blank extras is if you use the viewer/editor and blank them manually.

[Digga]

yep, just blank everything not desired (i.e. extras, to keep the bitrate for the episodes) and do full backup after that for episode DVDs.

[ilovejedd]

I'm not sure what you mean by "some programs" -- as it is impossible for a program to distinguish the "features" from the "extras" in an episodic disc. The only way to look at it is by length -- and it is entirely possible for an "extra" to be longer than one of the episodes. So whatever program you know of that doesn't work that way would have to be endowed with some sort of magic. :)DVD Shrink is actually pretty good at recognizing episodic DVDs. I've tried several - those with each episode in separate VTS, those with episodes in one VTS but separate PGCs, etc. So far, DVD Shrink recognized all episodes just fine. Although quality pales in comparison to DVD-RB.

Regarding Buffy, it should be safe to use Movies+Menu mode since it only has one VTS which contains separate PGCs for the episodes. What DVD-RB has a problem recognizing are DVDs with episodes in different VTS.

[9mmruger1]

Thanks all for the assistance. I used DVDReMake and then blanked the portions that I did not want. It does only have one main VTS file with the episodes built into it.

Just finished watching the first backup and it turned out great.

Cheers.

[blutach]

RipIt4Me (http://www.ripit4me.org/) will tell you this info when you rip. If it's episodic across many VTSs, rip in full disk mode and process in DVD Rebuilder (http://dvd-rb.dvd2go.org/) accordingly.

Regards