modern, common practices for dvd archive?

[fibbingbear]

I am curious what format / how much processing people do to their DVDs when backing them up for archival quality (no conversion). My questions:

1.) Do people just rip the VOBs and leave them as is? Do they index them / extract chapter information / subtitles / etc. and mux that into another format (like mkv) [perhaps this makes processing them easier at a later time]?

2.) Do people that have archival video write AVS scripts to do run-time post-processing, so the video looks better (but is fundamentally unchanged)?

3.) Do people consider pure DVD rips a silly concept in the first place, and just re-process all the videos they archive?

I found a few things when I searched this forum, but nothing that definitive. Also, "common practices" change over time, so no idea if the older posts are accurate. Thanks!

[Guest]

I just ISO copy DVD5 to DVD5 and DVD9 to DVD9. I store the ISO images on a hard disk as well. Fast perfect backups every time. :)

[setarip_old]

Hi!

Based on the myriad related postings I've read (and threads in which I've participated) here and at other forums, it appears that I am very much in the minority when it comes to making backups of my DVD collection.

I always burn complete (decrypted, of course) backups, "warts and all", including all languages, all subtitles, all FBI/Interpol warnings - usually compressed by either DVD2One, DVD95Copy, or DVD Shrink and burned to a DVD5. If I determine that a DVD compressed using these specific tools suffers visually (typically either lengthy or high-action titles), I'll make an uncompressed DVD9 (I use Verbatim D/L DVD+R, made in Singapore, exclusively).

[Guest]

(decrypted, of course) Why "of course"? Players all do the decryption and if you later need clear data it's not hard to rip an ISO.

[Ajax_Undone]

Hi!

Based on the myriad related postings I've read (and threads in which I've participated) here and at other forums, it appears that I am very much in the minority when it comes to making backups of my DVD collection.

I always burn complete (decrypted, of course) backups, "warts and all", including all languages, all subtitles, all FBI/Interpol warnings - usually compressed by either DVD2One, DVD95Copy, or DVD Shrink and burned to a DVD5. If I determine that a DVD compressed using these specific tools suffers visually (typically either lengthy or high-action titles), I'll make an uncompressed DVD9 (I use Verbatim D/L DVD+R, made in Singapore, exclusively).

You know I do the same thing...

neuron2 I don't know I suppose its because in order to shrink the DVD9 to a DVD5. DVD shrink and others either decrypt the video them selves, or require that the video is unencrypted before it will processes them...

[setarip_old]

@neuron2

Hi!Why "of course"?As "Ajax_Undone" pointed out regarding my initial post to this thread, more often than not, I'm compressing DVD9s to DVD5s - and this procedure requires decryption and elimination of any other type of copy protection...

(Additionally, for travel purposes, to lighten my load, I frequently use MPEGMediator convert a slew of DVDs to "movie-only" .AVIs and place from 4 to 7 on a single DVD5. Preliminary setup for this requires full DVD "packages" [.IFOs, .BUPs, and .VOBs], rather than .ISO image files.

[linyx]

I make exact copies of the main movie to my harddrive and compressed copies to dvd5.

[EPiPH0NE]

When I watch the movie I just do ISO and play from my NMT. Before that I would just watch the DVD in my player and decide if I wanted to archive it which used to involve DVD Rebuilder Pro + CCE (8 pass) -> DVD5 or just DVD5 -> DVD-R5. Now a days I do DVD5/9 -> MKV using 2-pass x264 (keeping only main move + audio) which gives me the same quality that my CCE rips used to give me but at 1/3 the size so I can put 3 movies on one DVD-R. I don't believe in HDD storage as optical storage is much cheaper. As you said, standards change. Who knows what we'll be using to archive stuff in the future.

[mr soft]

Thing is, there´s no compatibility probs with vobs.

Main movie, in good old ts folder, on HD for me. DVD 5 or 9.
Shrink out all that stuff at the beginning and most of the credits
(unless it´s a killer track)

DVDs are cheaper ,but lots of spindles gets messy.

[EPiPH0NE]

Thing is, there´s no compatibility probs with vobs.

Main movie, in good old ts folder, on HD for me. DVD 5 or 9.
Shrink out all that stuff at the beginning and most of the credits
(unless it´s a killer track)

DVDs are cheaper ,but lots of spindles gets messy.


Yeah, as I said I keep VOB in ISO when first watching DVD on my NMT or just play disc from my player which currently is an Xbox 360. HD I watch 720p/1080p x264/MKV rips or my own 1080p ES rips in TS/M2TS with 5.1 (L)PCM/AC3/DTS. And when 320GB HDD's become $8.99 please let me know.

[Shinigami-Sama]

now that have a 1tb drive and plan on getting a couple more of them
just straight rip to ISO, clean it up with fixvts and such and be done with it