Alternate Angle Movie Method

[Josh]

This method seemed to pass with flying colors so I thought I would pass it on for movies with angles. Some of those movies with angles are a biatch to back up, and this method is simple and produces excellent results.
1. Rip entire movie to hard drive with dvddecryptor, default settings (do not have retain angles checked).
2. Strip out main movie only with dvdfab.
3. Use Ifoedit 0.91 to strip out the new movie, with retain angle 1 option checked.
4. Burn
Using this method removes the angles, and the angle notification icon on your tv during playback on the standalone. If you want to keep the angles, simply burn after using dvdfab.

[mikewillnot]

Why would this work better than using IFOedit to do a main movie only strip? I'm not familiar with DVDfab, but I notice it's getting more use lately.

[Josh]

Ifoedit a lot of times has trouble with some of the more tricky angles (like for the 007 movies and Disney films). I think dvdfab's code is probably newer or better. That's my only explanation. Using the method I described above was the only method that I got to work for some of the Disney animation movies, like Beauty & the Beast for example. Now dvdfab can do the movies with angles too, even for the tough movies like 007 Die Another Day I'm told. But some movies turn out better taking out the angles in my opinion which is why this alternate method is good.

[mikewillnot]

Hmmmm. I just ran Treasure Planet, which as others have indicated has a really weird structure, through dvdfab, stripping out the movie only. Plays fine on the PC. I didn't notice, in the structure, any multiple angles. Is the IFOedit step in your method necessary, do you think? Or, did I miss some angles?

[Josh]

For Treasure Planet I had troubles too. I couldn't get it to work with ifoedit, so I used dvdxcopy. That was before there was dvdfab though. I would bet dvdfab would work. Oh, if there's no angles then yeah just use dvdfab. Ifoedit not needed. You only need to use ifoedit if you want to remove angles from the movie.

[phizzat]

Originally posted by Josh
Ifoedit a lot of times has trouble with some of the more tricky angles (like for the 007 movies and Disney films). I think dvdfab's code is probably newer or better. That's my only explanation. Using the method I described above was the only method that I got to work for some of the Disney animation movies, like Beauty & the Beast for example. Now dvdfab can do the movies with angles too, even for the tough movies like 007 Die Another Day I'm told. But some movies turn out better taking out the angles in my opinion which is why this alternate method is good.

Is this DVDFAB lite that works with this? or do you have to get the retail version?

[Josh]

I didn't use dvdfab on this, but others said it worked for them. I would assume the dvdfab .17 could do it.

[henry_nettles]

I recently backed up Finding Nemo. I first stripped all files to the hard drive, and then tried using DVDFab 17 to strip out just the main movie. This was unsucessful, the result was over 6 gigs and when played back from the hard drive (using PowerDVD5) it kept jumping between the actual movie and and some extra feature on the making of the movie. And when the movie was playing, the sound track was off by a big margin.

Elbys CloneDVD offered me a choice of two different movies, I picked the first one, and it produced a good set of .VOB files, a little less than 4 gigs.

I also tried DVD2One version 1.30, choosing Main Movie Only, and it also produced a good set of .VOB files, approximately the same size as CloneDVD.

[mikewillnot]

DVD-shrink worked great also, on both Nemo and Lion King. One I ripped first, the other I just shrank direct from the disk. I'm finding with lots of recent movies that DVD-shrink offers the quickest, simplest, cleanest, best quality backup. I can often backup the movie only, and only the essential audio and subtitle streams, and get away with 100% (no) compression, or very near it -- which appeals to me a great deal. Sometimes I do the shrink-movie-only and then make a separate disk with just extras, if they're good, by stripping out the movie. For kids' movies, the movie-only approach works fine. Personally, I like to retain the main and chapter menus, if possible, but I'm less inclined than I used to be to spend hours working on it.