First DVD+R Backup

[Rob Brown]

Hi,

I've been playing around with Video encoding for a while and have quite a lot of experience with DivX and VCD/SVCD.

I've recently decided to start backing up to DVD+R and have invested in a DVDRW drive as well as some shiny commercial software (Vegas/SoundForge/DVDArchitect).

My source in this case is DVD9. The streams I wish to keep are:

Video 16:9 NTSC 720 x 576
Audio 6Ch Ac3 448kbps
Subtitles English

I've used DVD Decrypter to demux all three streams and now imagine my surprise to find that Vegas will not open my m2v stream, SoundForge will not even consider opening my demuxed Ac3 file and I don't have the first idea what to do with the Sub file DVD Decrypter has given me.

After trawling the Vegas help file I discovered that I can open only muxed video files (why?), however Vegas does not do this itself so I had to reinstall my old version of TMPGEnc just to get this done only to find that when I open my muxed video in Vegas it doesn't recognise the Ac3 audio stream.

Basically here's what I wish to do...

Using the extremely costly Sonic Foundry software I now have I want to backup my DVD9 to 4.7GB DVD+R keeping only the main movie, 5.1 Ac3 and english subtitles.

I would be very grateful if any Sonic Foundry users with more experience could help me.

Thanks in advance,

Rob.

[manono]

Hi-

What do you need Vegas Video and Sonic Foundry for? And ordinarily you rip the whole movie (all the vobs with all the streams) and the backup software allows you to select the streams you want to keep. Just as an aside, searching and reading a few guides would have provided you with the answer. For example, here's the second page of Doom9's DVDShrink Guide:

http://www.doom9.org/mpg/dvdshrink2-mmo.htm

And a little ways down you'll see the picture where you deselect the streams you don't want. Here's Doom9's list of DVD Backup Guides:

http://www.doom9.org/mpg/dvdbackup-guides.htm

And since I don't own a DVD Burner, and don't know anything about this stuff (although I do know how to look around this site), I'm sure that oddyseus or killingspree will come along and elaborate a bit more and correct me if I've said anything stupid.

[killingspree]

Originally posted by manono
and correct me if I've said anything stupid.

as usual no need for that :)

in fact i fully agree with manono: why do you want to use this (very expensive) software for the job. as it looks like, you could easily do the same job at least in the same quality using freeware that's available from doom9.org

as manono indicated already, it would be best if you would take a look at the guides and then come back with any questions you might have!

steVe