I apologise if I am duplicating my efforest -
I have searched sever threasd and found some valuabel infor but
NOT teh answer I am looking for -
I am new to all of this and I cam trying to back up various DVD and for the most part successfully. However, occasionally I cannot seem to do it. DVD Decryptor was recomended and I used it once and it worked - now I cannot seem to dupluicate my success. I am obvioulsy making a backout larger then 4.75 so that is why I want to use DVD shrink. It is the Decrypter programe I know nothing about - has anyone had regular success in using these two programs together? Please help.
Great - I did it - thank you
But not to be a pain the ass - but what if I want to back up teh whole disk and everything - my kids really like the extras on many of the disks and they trat them like crap - You mention at teh end of your PDF that this is another way to back up the whole thing.
IF you could point me in that direction - You help is truely valued.
Thank you
If you Shrink the whole DVD including extras, your compression will be higher. This will impact the quality of playback you view.
You can then achieve maximum quality by enabling all quality options, but it takes longer to Shrink (a small, worthy sacrifice :^)
It is a tradeoff between compression and time/quality.
Always rip DVD to harddisk first, using DVD Decrypter in File mode.
Then run Shrink on these files. (Output to another harddisk if possible.)
I write a Video_TS folder containing VOB files as my output from DVDShrink.
I can then easily watch them or burn 1 or more copies, at my convenience, as required ;^)
Running DVDShrink on your DVD directly is slow, and very hard on your optical drive. You have to make sure your DVD and harddisk are on separate controllers. It's a bad plan.
People will tell you, they run Shrink and burn with DVDDecrypter.
It's better to first rip with Decrypter, then run Shrink, then burn with ? whatever... I use Nero.
A slow, top-quality job can achieve good results down to 80% or 70% compression or lower. How's it look to you?
You are the judge.
Ask back here if you need more help with Decrypter,
L8R
