First timer Backup/ Playing problems

[DVD Rook]

Hi,

I was trying to make a backup of Finding Nemo, which sounds like it might not be the best first project. I was following the Guide (Split a DVD to 2 DVD-Rs) here using DvdDecrypter and IfoEdit. I ripped Nemo to flies and did the editing and burned it using DVDdecrypter. The problem is that the copy doesn't play well. On my home player it won't play at all and on the computer, with WinDVD, it plays like a 2 second loop of just black. If I click the menu button on WinDVD it says "resume" and then goes to the main menu. Anybody have any idea what I did wrong? I actually did some searchs while I was waiting to post, but don't know enough to know what to look for.

Thanks,
Jason

[malum]

If you take out the extras Finding Nemo will fit on one disc.

If you don't want to do that then you can use DVD Shrink to compress the extras and leave the film uncompressed and still fit it on one disc.

DVD Shrink is freeware and couldn't be easier to use.

If you are dead set on using two discs it would still be easier to put the film on one and all the extras on another using DVD Shrink and reauthoring one disc to contain just the movie and the other for everything but the movie.

The Decytpter IFOedit method for splitting to two discs is best left for very long films that you don't want to compress to one disc for quality reasons. Splitting to two discs and keeping the menu and all the extras using this method is not that easy and might reult in problems (as you have found)

[DVD Rook]

Cool I don't really need the extras. Um, how do I remove them? I guess I could search here and find the answer to that. I tried compressing it, but the picture quality really goes south, it gets very pilixated(sp?)

Thanks,
Jason

[ammck55]

malum has indeed given you good advice. Take a look at the DVD Shrink Guide (http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/dvdshrink3-main.htm), this may well be what you're looking for. All of Doom9's superb guides can be accessed from the forum's homepage.

ammck55