DVD2One with makeiteasy and a lot of different vobs [Archive]

schlaufer

11th February 2003, 13:43

Originally posted by moose69
Anyone used this method with a movie like Episode 1 the second disk with the extras...It has like 3 different sets of vob files that are around 2.5 or 3 gig so could you use this method without ruining the quality of the movie

I've did this with LOTR-SEE disk 4 (appendices part 2). This DVD has 13 VOB-sets containing three and a half hours of video plus image galeries. I used four different methods to compress the VOBs for my new compilation:

1. I just copied all VOBs containing image galeries - no possibility to compress them without ruininmg them
2. I compressed very small VOBs (i.e. less than 300 MB) using ReMPEG2
3. Medium sized (300MB-1GB) VOBs were compressed with the IfoEdit/CCE method.
4. Large ones (>1GB) were compressed with MakeItEasy/dvd2one.

This was mainly an exercise for me because I am totally new to the DVD-backup business (my burner is now nearly three weeks old). The whole job has lasted two days and the result is nearly perfect. Image quality is still good. The only defect I have found so far is multi-angle. There is one VOB showing 6 sources for the cutter plus the final version and you can switch between them using your angle button on the remote control. Unfortunately, this posibillity was lost.

Some hints for the MakeItEasy-padding calculations for such projects:

1.) Do everything that not needs MakeItEasy/dvd2one first!
2.) Start with the largest VOB and contuine with next smaller ones.
3.) Use following method for calculation (everything in bytes):

XTR = Size of all material allready done (IFOs, menu-VOBs, precessed VOBs)
VOB = Size of all material still to be processed
RATIO = ( 4,700,000,000 - XTR ) / VOB
GOAL = 4,700,000,000 / RATIO
CUR = Size of VOB currently processed
PAD = ( GOAL - CUR ) * 1.02 / 1024 / 1024

Recalculate GOAL after each VTS. Due to the 2% error margin, its value should be slightly decreasing.