IC7 consistently results in files larger than 4.38Gb

[spil]

Somehow I must be missing something....

Tried both InstantCopy 7 (0039) and 7.01 (7.02 will follow shortly!) but the files are just too large!

Movies
- Minority Report
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Method:
- Rip to HD with DVDShrink (no compression), Movie only (without(c) leader and credits, extra languages etc.) to have best quality
- HD to HD conversion using IC7

results in .pdi files well over 4.7Gb. After I tried un-installing and reverting back to 0039 the results became even worse!

Only thing I found here on the forum was the incorrect asapi installation.
- Is this what the IC7 check (HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Run) tries to fix?
- Are there other ways of fixing asapiw2k or removing it (the check was only performed after 7.01 was installed?)
This asapi thing seems to be a problem anyway, after installing 7.01 I got the message that the asapi installation was incorrect, fixed it, had to reboot, then CloneCD came up telling me that the installation was incorrect and tried to correct it......

- Is there maybe an issue that DVDShrink does NOT remove Macrovision?
- Tried X-Men 1.5 from a full rip, included menus etc. and that was fine? (0039 version)

[Ollie W. Holmes]

Here is an alternative and more time-consuming technique (not requiring dvdshrink). Rip the movie title/pgc/angle with dvd decrypter or smartripper. Put a copy of VIDEO_TS.IFO into the rip directory. If you want to remove the final chapter (credits), do this here as well. Point ifoedit to the VTS_XX_0.IFO file which represents the ripped movie, and click on vobextras (checking re-create ifo's box). Make sure you save the output to a new sub-directory. Let ifoedit remove unwanted subtitles and audio tracks. When it is finished you will have a VIDEO_TS.IFO, VTS_01_0.IFO, VTS_01_1.VOB, etc., with self-consistent vobu pointers. You can click on get vts sectors, but I think this is superfluous for IC. IC can load and process the VIDEO_TS.IFO file treating the subdirectory and its contents as a complete dvd file set with just one title and no menu. This is the beauty of ifoedit (it recreates a master VIDEO_TS.IFO file, with no editing. With get vts sectors, the entire subdirectory, if properly named and under 4.5GB, would be ready for a burner). Assuming it is over the capacity of one dvd-r, let IC do an automatic shrink. Other than crashing, you should have no problem getting a set of files that is under 4.3 GB. Be creative with the sizing, and you can also get nearer to the max limit.

[spil]

Good tip! Thanks! Saves me an extra copy of the image on my harddrive.

As for the encoding size, this is really getting to be a bitch. Tried shrinking to 3.81Gb and still ended up > 5Gb.

Last resort: I'll try it on my Win9x installation tonight (IC hasn't been installed before). To see if that helps.

By now I'm thinking of using CCE to do the re-coding :angry:

Some more information can be found on Deano's pages (http://www.deano.dsl.pipex.com/backup/guesstimates1.htm)

[spil]

The test on Win98 did NOT work either!

There seems to be some issue with the DVDShrink step that I included to strip off as much as possible the unnecessary parts of the movie.

Couldn't get 'Minority Report' to be small enough to fit on a DVD at all, but when I used the original image it UNDER-sized as expected due to the letterboxed format.