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MSTFreak
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5. September 2005 @ 21:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I am a bit frustrated. I noticed that many of the movie downloaded from Bittorrent and The Pirate Bay are horribly ripped. It pains me to spend 4 days downloading a movie only to find out things were removed with the menu buttons still there(This pisses me off more than you can imagine), special features with the sound cut out, no subtitles, no menus, horrible movie quality, errors on dvd, Rips not filling Blank Dvd when they are supposed to, ect...

God, It makes me wonder what the hell the were thinking.

This is how I rip my movies, I try to keep it as close to the origional dvd as possible, never do I take the special features out.

- Get the absolute best retail dvd I can.
- load it up in dvd shrink
- take out the audio from the main movie that isn't needed(foreign dubs, high quality DTS, ect).
- compress the video quality on things that dont need it so high, sometimes to the maximum(special features, menus if needed, ect. Most of the time I will lower the special features to a maximum, about 30-50% on dvd shrink)
- Set Main movie to 'No compression' and back-up the rest of the DVD with all the quality enhancements.
- Load the the the movie back in DVD shrink and further compress the special features and extra's, then compress the DVD and back-up everything with all the quality enhancements.
- Load this movie into DVD remake and take out the menu buttons from things I have removed.
- Load it all back into DVD shrink and Make a nice, final ISO file.
- Burn The ISO.

This is all I do, and I try to used my common sense when a problem comes up and never take out what might be needed(subtitles, ect). it takes around 5-7 hours but well worth it, I compared both DVDs and could not find a difference in movie quality. Even the special features, Which have been compressed around 75%, look fantastic.

Does anyone else burn it this way, or better? Because I am beginning to think I am the only one... Took me around 60 rips to perfect this method...

But, there is one thing I want to do but don't know how, compress sound quality on the special features of the DVD, if anyone can help me with this I will be very grateful.
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andmerr
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6. September 2005 @ 01:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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Get the absolute best retail dvd I can
you might want to reconsider getting your files from torrent sites as 1/2 arent from dvds but could be cams taken in the cinema and downloaded as files to the net.Thats why they are literally crapola and not worth bothering with.
MSTFreak
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6. September 2005 @ 12:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
No, I am not referring to cams or telecync. I am referring to DVD-R, which are DVD-rips mean't to fill the whole DVD. I have downloaded a few that were done very professionally, but most are just terrible...
knuck58
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6. September 2005 @ 16:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The simplest way i have found to rip burn retail DVDs is to use DVD Decrypter to rip the movie from DVD onto HDD. Then use Instant Copy to burn the movie, in it's entirety back to DVD. You may have to lower the menu visuals, but the movie, soundtrack etc are all maintained in near perfect quality. I have ripped quite a few (!) movies this way and have never had a problem or coaster, and it doesn't take 5 - 7 hours.
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6. September 2005 @ 17:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hello MSTFreak you my friend are either a perfectionist to a near sickening degree, a glutton for self punishment or just have way to much time on your hands. Have you ever tried dvd-rb this will allow an unimaginable amount of tweaking for perfectionist and is based around encoders which will imho always yield a better result than a transcoder like shrink. and I myself was a die-hard shrink fan until a couple friends steared me in the right direction!!

MSTFreak
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6. September 2005 @ 18:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Actually yes, I am a perfectionist. I want these back-ups to be absolutely perfect in every way, like the DVD. I have a rather large collection of movies using this method and when I pop one in, it feels as though it is the actual dvd.

The thing that bothers me is the fact that It seems as though I am the only one who takes ripping so seriously... yet I doubt it.

Edit: And I kind of exagerated on the time it takes... Its more like 3 hours. I really don't mind as I will probably watch the movie more than 4 times and lend it out to people.

This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 6. September 2005 @ 18:37

l8nights
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6. September 2005 @ 19:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I'm glad to have ppl like you my friend around as you make sure the nuiances/flaws are taken care of and you would make a good beta-tester as I'm sure you would test every aspect of the program.

Iam stressing it now you should head on over to the dvd rebuilder forum start on uncasm's guide very good even if you have never even heard of dvd-rb. and it has all the links you will need to get you up and running.

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l8nights
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6. September 2005 @ 19:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
also stay away from the dl's the stuff is nine times out of ten crap as andmerr said not to mention it is against forum rules to address such issues!!

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