Advise on what to use

[hijacker]

I would want to do the folowing with the DVDs I've backup at home for my collection. The ones that are DVD-9 I mean.

Usualy the menus in the movies kicks ass (Red Dragon,...) so I want to preserve them. But I do not want to keep ALL extras only some. Above that I want to remove some unwanted languages and unwanted subtitles. So when I select a extra in the menu it should do nothing if it's not there... If this is still over the size of DVD-5 I would then have to compress it somehow...

Can someone advise me a tool that can do all that or gets close to it. I am a complete n00b here... :p

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@hijacker

Even as a complete noob, you were still required to read the forum rules (http://forum.doom9.org/forum-rules.htm), especially rule #1. You have tons of threads in this forum telling you what programs other people are using today. Please read and browse through the threads here to catch up on current events on what's available. Refrain on asking which one is the best, as you will be dinged on violating rule #12 by a moderator. This is to prevent flame wars.

[hijacker]

I've allready tried:

DVD Shrink - Very good but no menus and extras.
DVD2One - Very good but I don't want all the extras
DVD95Copy - Can't try the demo because it says it has expired
IFOEdit - Very complicated to use. Couldn't remove anything with it
InstantCopy - No luck. Kept getting some errors
DVDXCopy - Very close to what I want, but I don't want to split it to two DVD-Rs. It can strip the extras perfectly and preserve the menu, but I don't want to split

I've read the guides on doom9.org but couldn't make anything simillar what I want.

I just thought I've missed something so I've asked.

[MackemX]

Originally posted by hijacker

DVD95Copy - Can't try the demo because it says it has expired
IFOEdit - Very complicated to use. Couldn't remove anything with it
InstantCopy - No luck. Kept getting some errors

DVD95Copy dunno if you can still get it on a 10 day money back guarantee if you wanna try it but most people keep it

IFOEdit guides on removal HERE (http://www.deano.dsl.pipex.com/backup/prepare.htm), if you are any good understanding stuff you will soon pick it up

InstantCopy what errors are you getting?

[hijacker]

Originally posted by MisterX
DVD95Copy dunno if you can still get it on a 10 day money back guarantee if you wanna try it but most people keep it

IFOEdit guides on removal HERE (http://www.deano.dsl.pipex.com/backup/prepare.htm), if you are any good understanding stuff you will soon pick it up

InstantCopy what errors are you getting?

DVD95Copy: I wanted to buy it, but I can't. Paypal is the only way and even if I have MC/EC card I can't use it because my country is not supported.

IFOEdit: Looks complicating. But I'll give it a go.

InstantCopy: Something about a driver error.

Can someone who had DVD95Copy licence tell me if it can do what I said in my first post.

[mrbass]

Originally posted by hijacker

Usualy the menus in the movies kicks ass (Red Dragon,...) so I want to preserve them. But I do not want to keep ALL extras only some. Above that I want to remove some unwanted languages and unwanted subtitles. So when I select a extra in the menu it should do nothing if it's not there... If this is still over the size of DVD-5 I would then have to compress it somehow...


You can do that with dvdshrink
see doom9's dvdshrink guide ...for the unwated extras just choose 'Still Movie' and you can get 90% compression for that. Whole movie and menu, etc. will be intact.

[hijacker]

Re-author allows you to create your own DVD by putting only content that you really want on a DVD. It does not allow you to keep the menus though. If you want to entirely remove certain items but keep the menus you have to use program like IfoEdit or commercial transcoders like InstantCopy and DVD95Copy.

Can you explain a bit more. In the guide it says it doesn't support the menus. If you apply them they might not work properly...