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Thanks for the help so far. All do respect to those who have been doing this for awhile, but I can not seem to find any REAL authority on this subject. These forums allow for so many different opinions and my coaster collection grows as I am learning. (I don't mind -- as long as I am learning)
Tools I have:
Shrink, Decryptor, Nero (Demo), Intervideo DVD Copy v1.2, DVD X Copy Platinum with ripper
Plextor 708A Burner, Windows XP Home Pentium 4 2.0
Maxell DVD-R Media
Results so far.
Disc 1 - Coaster
Disc 2 - Coaster
Disc 3 - Dora The Explorer (The only smaller than 4.7 G DVD I had to try) SHRINK/NERO used - Success! No real picture or sound quality to test though.
Disc 4 - Saving Private Ryan - Movie only/Compressed - SHRINK/NERO - Successful burn. Quality of picture is a little questionable. I would say 8/10 on my satisfaction meter. Switching to DVD X Copy to try to improve quality.
Disc 5 - Saving Private Ryan - Tried X Copy uncompressed to 2 discs -- ONLY BURNED 1 disc for some reason.
Disc 6 - Same as above. X Copy Platinum only prompted for Disc 1 of split from advanced mode -- Disc 1 was improved picture quality over SHRINK, but the disc would do a one second freeze every minute or so.
Disc 7&8 - With no success on uncompressed 2 disc backup on X Copy I switched to INTERVIDEO DVD COPY v1.2. It burned Saving Private Ryan Disc 1, prompted for disc 2 and said complete! Neither disc would play at all.
Disc 9 - Tried my own BS theory - Coaster
Disc 10 - Same as above - Coaster
Disc 11 - Read a thread suggesting X Copy and DVD Copy fancy 2 disc copies could be completed with SHRINK by burning one at a time and choosing chapters.
Saving Private Ryan Chapters 1-12 movie only uncompressed SHRINK using Decrypter to burn. Picture quality was better than previous compressed Shrink output, but there were jaggies and freezes all over the place.
Disc 12 - Saving Private Ryan Disc 2 - the rest of the chapters, SHRINK uncompressed burned with Decrypter. Same results as above -- bad backup. Bugs all through the video.
So, anyway. I am not telling you this because I think anyone is sitting on the edge of their seat waiting to see how a newbie is doing, I am bringing you up to speed to I can ask WHAT NEXT?
SHRINK
* Burned Single disc uncompressed animated movie with NERO - Result OK
* Burned compressed Saving Private Ryan movie only with NERO - Result OK, Quality was a little off
* Burned 2 discs Saving Private Ryan movie only uncompressed split chapters up burned with Decryptor - Result POOR - jaggies, bugs and freezes all over the place
After 2 successful backups with SHRINK/NERO could the poor result here be because of SHRINK/DECRYPTOR combo?
DVD X COPY PLATINUM
* In advanced when choosing Split/Uncompressed it only burns disc 1 (Split at the correct spot by the way) What's up?
* Picture quality is better than SHRINK (I think) but the disc that did burn (twice) kept freezing up for a second every minute or so -- Anyone getting good 2 disc backups from X Copy without bugs?
DVD COPY - Burned 2 discs, but the output would not play. Any thoughts?
Thanks!
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