How important is the Audio folder ?

[JonRead]

Instant Copy Related...

Just did my second sucessful backup from DVD9 to DVD-R. First one was a 3 hour video with endless bonus features and it came out great, even though it was a 8.4gb disc, I was amazed. Sure, some artifacts, but considering it was cut in half it was excellent. Second backup was Back to the Future 2, has come out perfect, I can't tell the difference (but then I don't have mega sound systems, etc etc).

The first one I did via a ISO (using DVD Decryptor) and the second one I did via the file system (skipping out having to extract the ISO contents). Now, they both came out perfect, so, what I want to know is how important is the Audio folder that using the file system ignores ? I know with ISO it copies the ENTIRE disc, but using File it leaves out the audio folder. Now, as my DVD player is playing it back fine, with all bonus features, is there any reason for me to use the ISO system ? If I do it the ISO way then I have to extract the ISO image, but I can of course skip this out if I just extract the whole contents to disc first. I just hear conflicting views about compatibility issues.

Any advice ? Cheers.

[REECYCUP]

There are other posts discussing this very same thing
i have made hundreds of backups with none having an audio_ts folder
i havent had a problem yet

[int 21h]

A search of 'Audio_TS AND folder' yielded these threads:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47133

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47183

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=46688

[mrbass]

what are you talking about if you rip in .iso or file mode...both take same amount of space and time....no clue what your talking about extracting from an iso.....more like process from the .iso / virtual dvd-rom.

[JonRead]

Mrbass, didn't you write a guide asking the same thing though ? The following link is at an address called Mr Bass, and it was this guide that made me wonder : http://www.mrbass.org/instantcopy (which I must add is a great guide, ironically enough I was backing up BTTF2 when I came across the guide)

If I use DVD Decryptor I have a choice out of saving it to an ISO image or just the files. If I select just the files it misses out the Audio folder and is a few bytes less (I checked both sizes, I assume the byte difference was just the folder). So obviously I was missing something so I was curious. As far as me extracting ISO goes, I use ISO Buster and it allows you to extract the contents of an ISO image on to your hard drive. As for taking the same amount of time, well of course it doesn't, as ripping direct to file leaves out having to use ISO Buster to extract the ISO image. I know you guys use a virtual drive, but I don't, so for me it takes 10 minutes to open up the 8gb ISO file. I am a newbie at this so I didn't think about virtual drives, but now I know, if it saves time, then I shall use one.

No one seems to mention ISO Buster, they all seem to use Daemon Tools, but if anyone is after the excellent free ISO Buster, then you can get it from http://www.isobuster.com

[Wayne Murphy]

People have different ways of getting the AUDIO_TS folder back into the DVD. The way that i do it is that i use DVDDecrypter in File Mode to extract the files to my hard drive (just to get rid of the copy protection really).

Then use Instant Copy to make it fit onto a DVDR5. Now, i think the thing here is what to do with the resulting PDI file. Some create an ISO from it which misses out the AUDIO_TS. I personally prefer to use the PDITool to extract the files out of the PDI file so that i can use Nero (or something else) to create the DVDr. This way you can not only put the AUDIO_TS in but you can also put a label on it.

Hope this makes sense

TTFN

Wayne