to remove the 321 disclaimer is easy with ifoedit95(free). 1 min of editing and its gone. you can make it go to the main movie only or jump to the menu. if you want instructions, ill post them
I have read many things in this post and I would like to clear the area a little bit.
DVD Shrink is not recommended for long movies (more that 2hrs) because it uses high compression and the result will be much worse that using DVDXCopy-Platinum or DVD2One. DVD Shrink is great though for DVDs that contain TITLES such as series (Friends, The Simpsons etc), which DVD2One cannot process.
If your movie is more that 2hrs try DVD-Decrypter to remove the Macrovision, DVD2One to remove unwanted sudio and subtitles and any burner you wish to burn your movie.
For movies less than 100 minutes use DVD-shrink for both Macrovision removal and compression and then burn it with any burner program u wish.
Finally DVDXCopy-Platinum is the best program to do both works but is not very user friendly and it is very expensive to buy.
Hope I was helpfull.
Quote:I would like to clear the area a little bit.
DVD Shrink is not recommended for long movies (more that 2hrs) because it uses high compression
And I would like to correct your clarification.
The lenght of a movie has nothing to do with the resulting quality when using DVD Shrink.
I have seen movies longer than 2 hours being DVD5 ("Jerry Maguire" comes to mind), hence no compression was neccessary.
What ultimately matters is the compression required and the quality of the original DVD.
Karateka , I'd suggest you make a test with a DVD needing 25% compression or more, with DVD Shrink v3.0b5 using Deep Analysis, the latest version of DVD2One and DVDXCopy (any version).
Let us know your findings.
Full-disk or movie-only, your choice. ;)
I also agree with you that no compression will needed if you remove unwanted audio and subtitles at DVD Shrink. But if you want to make an exact copy with full menus, audio and subtitles there will be compression for sure.
Actually what he was saying is that the movie came on a DVD-5, which means no compression is required to keep everything. The amount of space required for a video stream is only partly dependent on the length. It also depends on the amount of change from 1 frame to the next. Things like fast motion, special effects, a noisy source, or even rain and snow will require a higher bitrate, making sequences with those things require more bits. A short movie with a high bitrate may take up more space than a long movie with a low bitrate, and therefore require more compression to fit it on a single DVD-R.
run the program and let it copy. When it's finished copying and asks for a blank dvd , pull out the original dvd and just press CTRl+ALT+DEL and "end task" . This will leave your Temp folder intact and accessible it will be called dvd xpress2.5 ( i think)
Rename the folder to the name of the movie ex: scorpion king etc. If you don't , the next time you run dvdxcopy xpress, it will overwrite the folder.
Go to the "VIDEO_TS FOLDER AND DBL CLICK ON VIDEO_TS.IFO file.(better install ifoedit96)
THEN double click VMGM_MAT in the top window and click once on "First Play PGC"
slide the bar in the bottom window towards the bottom and you will see the PGC Command Table near the bottom
look for the "1.Pre command" and right click it and then choose Edit Command
In the Command: option select (Jump_TT)Jump to Title (near the top in the scroll bar)
and in the Title Nr: just select 1
click Save and overwrite the BUP as well
now just use any software burning program and burn away . I use "copy to dvd"(very clean program
1 Using IFOedit, open the VIDEO_TS.IFO file
2 In the upper window double click on VMGM_MAT which will open the sub-folder First Play PGC 3 Highlight First Play PGC, which will open a list called PBC (program chain) in the lower window.
4 In the PBC (program chain) window scroll down to near the bottom and find the PGC Command Table 5 In the PGC Command Table find: 1.Pre command, right click on it and choose Edit Command 6 The Command Change window will open
7 In the Command drop down menu, select (JumpSS_VMGM)Jump to VideoManager Menu 8 In the Menu drop down box select Title-Menu. Click OK to save both commands
9 Click Save at the bottom of IFOedit to save the revised VIDEO_TS.IFO file.
10 When prompted to overwrite the .BUP file say Yes 11 When you close IFOedit it may ask if you want to close without saving.
Since the new .IFO was already saved the click Yes (close without saving)
The post by oldhack on 1/19/04 suggested selecting (Jump_TT)Jump to Title in the Command drop down menu. It worked some of the time but usually caused the disc to skip the main menu and go straight to the main program, making any ?extras? inaccessible. Selecting (JumpSS_VMGM)Jump to VideoManager Menu instead went to the main menu every time. Thanks to oldhack, most of the above was his-extremely simple and elegant solution.
IFOedit 0.95 was used; DVDShrink 3.16 generated the VIDEO_TS.IFO; DVD?s were made with CloneDVD 1.2.8.4
