Backing Up DVD's
 

Anybody know which product (Free or otherwise) is good for backing up my DVD's?

Im looking for something that can compress as well, but thats only if i start running out of disk space.

Thanks..

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DVD Shrink :)

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Is it good? Have you used it? Are there any better?

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DVDshrink is brilliant....

SOME dvd's are more heavily protected however.

On occasion I've also used dvddecrypter http://www.dvddecrypter.com/

And put the output of THAT into dvd shrink.

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Superb - Will try them.

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The best things to use (and I've tried pretty much everything) are:

DVD Decrypter for ripping the DVD - http://www.dvddecrypter.com/
DVD2ONE for compressing the DVD to fit on a normal DVDR - http://www.dvd2one.com/
Nero for burning

Takes me approximately 20 mins from start to finish to rip/compress and burn a DVD including ALL content.

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On the subject of this is there a good simple program to compress dvd's (or divz,xvid...) to PDA size ie 1-200 meg. Havge tried a few with poor results.

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DVD2ONE will let you specify the target filesize.

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cheers will look at that when I finish work.

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I like the sound of that, time to play a bit later, is there much / any loss in quality ?? never used anything like it before

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I've not noticed any picture degradation whatsoever on any DVD, even with all the menu's, features and soundtracks (AC3 etc)

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Damn - good one Bifta - just tried DVDShrink and it worked a treat though - but i will try your way as well just to see which one is better.

Ta.

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Just tried DVD shrink on a recently purchases DVD .............did not work diagonal lines across it :confused:

Any ideas

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Yeah, use what I recommended, first DVD Decrypter to rip the movie (and the protection out), then DVD2ONE to compress it.

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While im here, i have a home movie in Div-X format - (Please no jokes the wife gets edgy :D), if i wanted to convert that to DVD - any suggestions?

And if i got a DVD-RW or +RW disc, would that allow me to burn on that DVD, then watch it on my player, then wipe it and remaster a new one on the same disk?

Cos eh - that would be sweet.

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A bit more complicated as you need to generate vobs etc. You could try DivxtoDVD though

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/DivXToDVD.htm

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nero would allow u to do what want. And yes, u should be able to use a rewriteable, but in past experience, some DVD players are abit tempremental when it comes to rewriteables

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Just run it through tmgenc...

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Ditto on the nero ploy, thats all i've been doing with mine, auto converts the format to pal, you have the option of format 4:3 or 16:9 no matter what your format is, well thats so far so good :tu:

Does take a while to burn though whilst converting, about 3 1/2 hours for a standard length movie :(

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Well I've tried ripping twice with dvddecrypter and both times it got stuck on 3%, see pics, any ideas ?? TIA

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'Check Condition'

Try an unscratched dvd, do the same for the purpose of testing it, if it doesn't work then you've got a problem.

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Its a brand new outta the box DVD, plays fine in power dvd,............... next ????

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Are you ripping it using a DVD Rom drive or DVD writer? I always rip using the DVD writer, never fails.

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What dvd is it?

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It is the dvd rom / cd writer combo. I'll try it now with the dvd writer :tu:


Dirty Sanches

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The reason I ask is that I've had trouble with some dvd's before like this.

I suspect there are some deliberate bad sectors to stop copying (Definately in some cases - although I don't know about THIS dvd, but it's another idea).

You could try re-authoring in dvd-shrink and select just the film.

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nope, seems to be working ok from the dvd writer as Bifta says :shrug: strange, 65 % through at the mo, update soon :tu:

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Well I managed to rip it ok, then I've used dvd2one to shrink it...not, says that i have the trial version and that i can only encode 30 mins of footage :( also I tried to shrink it down to 200 mb but the 30 mins that i got was 550 mb, I'll have a look / play.


Also i'm gonna try dvdshrink :tu: let you all know how i get on