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The BEST way to backup DVD's with a Mac
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ast3r3x
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16. February 2003 @ 14:38 |
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1) Rip with OSEx into elemental ac3/m2v
2) Make a DVD image consisting of half the chapters(or as many that fit)
3) Make a DVD image consisting of the remaining chapters
4) Burn them with toast
why wasn't i told its that simple to backup a movie?! i was messing around with encoding and decoding for the past 2-3weeks, the only thing i have to do yet is get menu's on and working if anyone knows how to do this and is willing to tell me or once i get it to work, you can be assured that a DVDXCopy like program for mac will be coming out!
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ast3r3x
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16. February 2003 @ 14:43 |
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i hear people saying this causes sync problems, i'll look into what causes that for people
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mike71
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21. February 2003 @ 18:52 |
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I don't bother backing up the extras, but if you're splitting over 2 DVD's then you might as well have the movie on one DVD and the menu and extras on the other. then you don't have to change DVD's mid-movie.
if the movie and sound is longer than 4.38GB then you may have to compress the movie, but I'm still happy with the results to date.
http://www.hillmanminx.com/transcoder
I'm pimping this product because it's easy to use, not fast but reliable.
heck I can backup small DVD's in an hour start to finish
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ast3r3x
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22. February 2003 @ 03:46 |
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well my main problem was how long other methods took...i wouldn't mind loosing a little quality to fit a movie onto a DVD, but it takes forever, and that is a problem to me, specially when i can take far less time, not lose quality and put them on 2 dvd's
...i do have to figure out how to get menu's to work yet
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mike71
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22. February 2003 @ 20:08 |
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ok then use osex and convert the files into chapters rather than title..
that way you can put the vob files over two disks.
so far i just let transcoder run while i'm at work or overnight but today I've been asked to get a 7.5gig DVD with full functionality onto two disks...
:lol i'll have to wing this one!
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ast3r3x
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23. February 2003 @ 02:27 |
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its gonna be hard, but you can...or should be able to get everthing onto both discs. the hard part is if u want a menu, you might have to create one
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deville
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24. February 2003 @ 17:31 |
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Have you found a solution for the sync problems when using chapters instead of title in OSEx yet? I've tried the Mediapipe re-encoding method to get a 6GB file down to 4.whatever, but no matter what I do, I have sync problems.
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ast3r3x
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24. February 2003 @ 18:27 |
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i do it by chapters in OSEx, and i havn't gotten any sync problems...i'm extremely happy, should i get them i do not know whwat i'll do
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mike71
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25. February 2003 @ 13:45 |
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deville try splitting the title by selecting elementary streams and pass the resulting files through transcoder to reduce the size of the M2V file...
..it works!!
ast3r3x I successfully made a part backup of a DVD with full menu functions. I simply removed selected VOB files but included all first chapters. I'm having trouble creating a second DVD with the missing tracks and a full function menu, but when I crack it I'll let you know.
What I'd really like is a compaction program to reduce the size of a VOB file in one step, also on my wish list is a program to edit VOB files directly.
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ast3r3x
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25. February 2003 @ 17:03 |
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mike71...what are you saying, if i do the way i said and then just throw on the menu .vob file, it will work?
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mike71
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25. February 2003 @ 21:19 |
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I used DVD backup for this job and simply deleted end chapters until I was under 4.4 Gig.
BUT I left all the 0 and 1 chapters....
and messed around with a couple of combinations on rewriteable, as soon as one worked I burned!
I'm getting busy with work and the G/f ain't been getting much attention lately but i'll try and get you a better explanation in a week or so.
good luck m8
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deville
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26. February 2003 @ 08:18 |
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Hi, thanks for the response. I tried transcoder, and it successfully changed the original 4.5GB m2v file to... get this: 4.83 GB!
I chose the "DVD-R" option (which I assumed meant that it would make it small enough to fit on a DVD-R) and had the 3:2 pulldown option checked, as I was using NTSC DVD.
Any idea what I did wrong?
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mike71
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26. February 2003 @ 12:50 |
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not really sure I encode to PAL (I'm down under)did you add the AC3 file as well??
I'm at a bit of a loss as I've never had this problem.
You could try adding a larger AC3 file to transcoder, as it only uses it to calculate the length of the final M2V file. OR fiddle with the fit settings.
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bossnas
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18. March 2003 @ 08:00 |
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is it possible to add the original AC3 audio file to the m2v video from transcoder? i'm trying to create a disc image with sizzle but it doesn't recognize the AC3 audio file.
cheers
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mike71
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18. March 2003 @ 21:41 |
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suspect the ac3 file
i think in other posts "fixing" ac3 files was mentioned
sizzle shouldn't complain
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