24hourloop
9th July 2002, 01:19
In addition to Doom9's guide on ripping just the main movie I have found that the following without the use of Ifoedit can result i significantly smaller, same quality and guaranteed player-compatible titles:
Use Smartripper to rip main movie and demux audio and video (no VOBs, just the 5.1 audio track). Use chapterextractor to siphon off the chapters into Maestro compatible format. Use pulldown.exe to turn off the dropdown flag (requires latest version of pulldown.exe, not the one from Doom9's site). You will need to turn the drop-frame flag off or Maestro will complain when importing chapters.
Fire up Maestro, load audio and video and place on timeline, import chapters and drop the movie chapter 1 on first play. Compile and burn
This has resulted at several times in much smaller file sizes, DVDs I never thought would fit on a DVD-5.
Just a suggestion. Of course you lose menus but quite frankly I'd get rid off them in the first place. If you wish you can burn extras on a second (or the other side in case of doubnle-sided ones).
Use Smartripper to rip main movie and demux audio and video (no VOBs, just the 5.1 audio track). Use chapterextractor to siphon off the chapters into Maestro compatible format. Use pulldown.exe to turn off the dropdown flag (requires latest version of pulldown.exe, not the one from Doom9's site). You will need to turn the drop-frame flag off or Maestro will complain when importing chapters.
Fire up Maestro, load audio and video and place on timeline, import chapters and drop the movie chapter 1 on first play. Compile and burn
This has resulted at several times in much smaller file sizes, DVDs I never thought would fit on a DVD-5.
Just a suggestion. Of course you lose menus but quite frankly I'd get rid off them in the first place. If you wish you can burn extras on a second (or the other side in case of doubnle-sided ones).