Need some help with episodic disc.

[vaylon]

I have been trying to make a backup copy of my stargate sets. Problem is everything I have tried gives somewhat nasty results.
DVD2ONE(newest) started out fine but further into a disk the picture quality started to get really bad( to much compression). dvdshrink the latest was also pretty bad. Was wondering what anyone else was using, or how they were using it.
I tried reauthor mode on dvdshrink but no luck. I would be satisfied just to have the episodes on disc and block out the extras.
Any suggestions.

[Imperial Zeppelin]

There are many variations to this theme, but here's my solutions...

For non-interlaced stuff, or stuff totally interlaced, I use the old faithful: DVDDecrypter to ISO, DVD2AVI of the episodes I want, VFAPI, CCE, Pulldown to get the M2Vs, DVDMaestro to author and compile the disc, then burn with Prassi. I've used this for original series Star Treks (not interlaced) and Xena first season (totally interlaced).

For hybrids, like STNG (some interlaced, some progressive, so tough to make good copies with CCE), I've done the following...

1. DVDDecrypter
2. InstantCopy to shrink the episode I want to keep
3. Used FileMerger to merge the VOBs of the episode
4. DVD2AVI to demux the sound track
5. BBDMUX to demux the VOB to M2V (Yeah, I could use BBDMUX to demux the sound track, but this is what I've been doing)
6. DVDMaestro to author and compile. In this scheme chapter placement has to be manual. I haven't found a way to get ChapterExtractor CHP files to work after all the "fun"
7. Burn the DVD to a DVD-RW first to check and then to R when I'm happy

Using the above, and the performance on a 51" WS TV as my measure of quality, I get 5 original Star Treks or 4 STNGs on a DVD-R with excellent video quality.

[MackemX]

I think Arianos used my stripping tool with his Stargate DVD's and was very happy with the results so maybe if you can't find another method you can try this out when I release it as soon as I can

:)

[jawzforlife]

I just did Family Guy, with Dvd Shrink 3.0 Beta. I didnt do re-author, I just did automatic compression, It keeped all menus (to easly jump to an episode). The compression went down to 65% (a 35% loss). All the episodes turned out fine, even the ones at the end of the disc.

[ddlooping]

Hi all. :)

vaylon, you could also try using DVD Shrink re-author and put less episodes per disc. ;)