Arianos
11th April 2003, 19:59
Well, after 5 successful backups using DVD95COPY 1.4 + IC7 (occasionally), MisterX's guides and MenuEdit, although far from being a "Master", I can say that I really like what I accomplished. Similar to when I "produced" my first custom-made STNG backup with Maestro. Seems such a long time ago...
Anyway, my comments:
DVD95COPY is doing a fantastic job, besides filling the DVD-R to the rim, but ommiting the VOBs of the deleted titles scared me, so I implemented blank vobs, the MisterX's way.
In conjuction with IC7, we have the best we could ask, till something better (or perfect) comes along.
Results:
Perfectly playable on PowerDVD, but then again, what isn't? :)
Pefectly burnable with Nero 5.5.9.17 (Latest version I found 100% DVD compliant)
Perfectly burnable with RecordNowMax 4.5, and people who use it know what a b*tch that lovely program can be sometimes :)
EXCEPT when I only ommited some titles (No transcoding). It produced a silly message that the files were larger than CD's capacity....Oh well. I unburied Nero, and all's well.
And most important...
Perfectly playable on my Philips 743 standalone.
A few words about the player: It ABSOLUTELY refuses to play anything not 110% DVD compliant. That has to mean something. It even refused to play an obscure DVD that came to me "Movie-only" with the credits cut out, which was playable on every friends' standalone. (No, although I tried DVDshrink, I haven't burned anything using this option yet. I'm Greek, and I love to "scan the credits for Greek names"
(Quiz: Which movie (Director's comments) is that line from?)
I write this, first to thank MisterX once again, but mostly to urge people to spend some time to study his site. Once you "get it" it takes 10 minutes tops to "edit" a DVD.
1:1 backup is one thing, but keeping garbage FOR EVER, wasting valuable space, is quite another.
The things that really triggered me to do so:
First a Greek DVD with 2.5 minutes of company logos parading with a really LOUD score when you insert the disc(not to mention about 600MBs of crappy trailers), and second a Universal R1 title that you would HAVE to watch a "Hulk" trailer when you pushed "play" for the movie.
Hulk sees green, but I saw red!
P.S.1
Be sure you use MenuEdit absolutely LAST, or IC7 will ommit ALL the buttons on menus you have edited!
P.S.2
Special credits should be given to 2COOL's guides, which although not used in the cases above, helped me understand how Audio and sub streams "work" in a DVD, so I could move with relative "ease" in Ifoedit.
Anyway, my comments:
DVD95COPY is doing a fantastic job, besides filling the DVD-R to the rim, but ommiting the VOBs of the deleted titles scared me, so I implemented blank vobs, the MisterX's way.
In conjuction with IC7, we have the best we could ask, till something better (or perfect) comes along.
Results:
Perfectly playable on PowerDVD, but then again, what isn't? :)
Pefectly burnable with Nero 5.5.9.17 (Latest version I found 100% DVD compliant)
Perfectly burnable with RecordNowMax 4.5, and people who use it know what a b*tch that lovely program can be sometimes :)
EXCEPT when I only ommited some titles (No transcoding). It produced a silly message that the files were larger than CD's capacity....Oh well. I unburied Nero, and all's well.
And most important...
Perfectly playable on my Philips 743 standalone.
A few words about the player: It ABSOLUTELY refuses to play anything not 110% DVD compliant. That has to mean something. It even refused to play an obscure DVD that came to me "Movie-only" with the credits cut out, which was playable on every friends' standalone. (No, although I tried DVDshrink, I haven't burned anything using this option yet. I'm Greek, and I love to "scan the credits for Greek names"
(Quiz: Which movie (Director's comments) is that line from?)
I write this, first to thank MisterX once again, but mostly to urge people to spend some time to study his site. Once you "get it" it takes 10 minutes tops to "edit" a DVD.
1:1 backup is one thing, but keeping garbage FOR EVER, wasting valuable space, is quite another.
The things that really triggered me to do so:
First a Greek DVD with 2.5 minutes of company logos parading with a really LOUD score when you insert the disc(not to mention about 600MBs of crappy trailers), and second a Universal R1 title that you would HAVE to watch a "Hulk" trailer when you pushed "play" for the movie.
Hulk sees green, but I saw red!
P.S.1
Be sure you use MenuEdit absolutely LAST, or IC7 will ommit ALL the buttons on menus you have edited!
P.S.2
Special credits should be given to 2COOL's guides, which although not used in the cases above, helped me understand how Audio and sub streams "work" in a DVD, so I could move with relative "ease" in Ifoedit.