yup it runs in the background so you really dont have to do anything but make sure the fox is red,means the program is running,there are a few settings in there you can mess with if you want like jump dircitly to the main movie and removing trailers.
try this way.......
some people get confused on the AnyDVD imformation window
this is the way i have mine setup so i have steps 1.2.3.
to go by.......
1. double on the fox head, to open up anydvd
2. click on the program tab at the top
3. look at the settings screen at the bottom of the screen you see
in front of you.
4. put a check mark in the last box on the bottom of the page you
see it says"Show Imformation Window For New Media"
5. close AnyDVD 6. now the next time you insert a dvd in your drive/burner ect
what ever setup you may have.........
7. the red fox head will get light in red color(this means anydvd
is scanning the disks.
8. now the imformation screen will pop up with all the imformation
about the disks on it
9. hit close button... your done with AnyDVD for that disk
10. now open up DVDShrink, click open disks
11. now dvdshrink will Analize it..takes different times, for
different movie's ect.
12. now at some point all the imformation will pop up on the
right side of the screen....
13. now hit Re-Author button on tool bar at top of screen
14. now double click main movie 1, (usally the biggest number
on the list)
15. now click on the tab that says "Compression Setting" at
the top of the lists
16. now un check all boxes underneth the "Subpicture" as you
don't need any of them.
17 now under the "Audio" uncheck all boxes but AC3 2-ch english
or 5.1 something
18. now either take the dvd out of your drive/ or put a blank in
your burner
19. hit back up.
20.now you will see a "Backup DVD" screen
21. now under "Select backup target" choose " ISO Image File"
22. now under "Select target image file"
23. click the "Browse" button
(if you want your shrink files to go to your harddrive)
24. highlight your folder (this is the folder you made on your
computer before we did all this)
25. now click "OK" on the bottom of the screen.
26. now sit back, and don't do anything on your computer
27. let DVDShrink do it's Encoding.................
28. could take from 15 minutes to 60 min...or more, according
to the movie/ and or your setup ect...
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29. now the next thing that will happen is a screen will pop up
and tell you your files are in your folder (that you made) and
are ready for burning with the proper burning software.
30. click ok
31. open up DVDDecypter.
32. click on mode tab.
33. highlight ISO.
34. highlight and check ( W ) write.
35. now under Source, click on the folder.
36. find your folder (the one you made)
37. click open.
38. wait a couple seconds
39. now at the bottom the arrow should be green,
40. click on the arrow, if you did every thing right,
you should be "burning now"
41. sit back and wait, DVDDecypter will pop up and say
something like "Operation Successful"
42. remove your dvd/disk, close everything.............
Well you should have a good back up of your dvd now
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42. now you need to go back to that folder again (that you made)
open it up and highlight the ISO image you see and delete
it ..............................ok thats it,
