"The Hustler" DVD

[dragonstout]

Hi,
I am trying to make a backup of "The Hustler"; the problem I have is that, as a special feature, some expert pool-player keeps on popping up in the corner throughout the film to talk about the pool shots made in the movie. I ripped the movie to the hard drive using DVD Decrypter, and when I play the VOBs it does the same thing as the Matrix VOBs (i.e. repeats every few seconds). I then DVDFab'd it to take out the unneeded languages, subtitles, and special features. THe resulting VOBs still act the same way.
Now for my question:
I used InstantCopy to compress it, and got a resulting size (even having changed settings) of 3.9 GB. First of all, as I can't watch the copy till I've burned it, will this copy have the guy in the corner? And second of all, if I compress using DVDShrink (to get closer to the right size), will DVDShrink leave the guy in the corner? Thank you very much!
Andy

[wmansir]

It should be intact. You can check by mounting the image before burning and checking it out with a software player, such as WinDVD or PowerDVD. You can either use the Instant Copy virtual drive tool or convert the program to an iso and mount it with more common tools such as Daemon tools or Alcohol 120.

Mr. Bass' site (http://www.mrbass.org/) has more info on the tools available for IC7/8 output.

DVDShrink outputs files, instead of an image, so programs Like PowerDVD can use the "Open DVD files on HD" feature to test them without mounting.

[dragonstout]

Thank you! I never knew that about mounting the image; now I can preview my InstantCopy backups! Out of curiosity: Is there anyone out there that usually makes backups using IC8, but when the output size is low enough, switches to DVDShrink? At what bad IC8 output size would you decide that DVDShrink would do a better job? I'd only like to hear from InstantCopy users, of course, as I'm well aware that the DVDShrink users prefer DVDShrink all the time...
Andy

[dave88]

I prefer Instantcopy 7, I bought the upgrade to IC8 but found that I had much less control over the final size than I had with IC7(with IC hidden settings editor) so I switched back.

I do use DVDShrink frequently for preprocessing, I will sometimes re-author with DVDShrink and then compress with IC7. Note: If you do this do not use the "set start/end frames" feature, Instantcopy does not handle the resulting files well.

Instantcopy(7 or 8) does not size acurately when little compression is necessary, often yeilding drasticly undersized results. So on projects requiring little compression(over about 88%) I use DVDShrink for compression, and find the results nearly identical. However for higher compression projects there is no comparison Instantcopy's results are clearly superior.