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Burning Vob files
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denret
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14. November 2002 @ 05:08 |
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This is probably basic stuff to you, but I'm just starting. I have successfully ripped, just the movie files and view on Power DvD, but I cannot burn to DVD using Neo. What software do I need?
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wheelerdr
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14. November 2002 @ 06:10 |
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if you have any problems go to this web sit for a step by step with screen shots.
http://www.hkruse.dircon.co.uk/
dvd decrypter IfoEdit Nero Burning ROM orequivalent burning software. You may be able to use the software that came with your DVD+RW drive, i use neo You want the latest version of Nero, earlier versions apparently have trouble with DVD video. Also, if you fire up your own software and can't find equivalent functions as those I refer to in Nero, you might as well go over to Nero's website and download it. There's a free full-functioned 30 day trial, which does burn DVDs quite nicely and can later be enabled with a serial number if you decide to purchase (at $40 it's not exactly expensive). If any of the above links give you grief, you should be able to find all the above programs on Digital Digest. You will also need between 12 and 15Gb of disk space free to comfortably rip a DVD. That's all you need, which is quite a far cry from the gazillion programs I've seen in other guides. Ripping the Files 1. Stick original DVD in a DVD drive.2. Fire up DVD Decrypter.3. If not already there, go into File mode -- either select it from the "Mode" menu, or press (surprisingly enough, the F key)4. If necessary, select your DVD drive under the source pull-down menu.You should now have something like this: DVD Decrypter by default selects only the main movie files. For simplicity's sake later on, select everything. 5. Select the "Edit" menu, then "Select All".6. Select a destination for your ripped files. Click on the folder icon (circled on the picture and labelled 1), and provide a destination folder. (You'll probably need about 10Gb or possibly more, depending on the DVD you're ripping, to pull this whole process off.) 7. Rip the files by clicking on the DVD -> hard disk icon (circled as no. 2 on the pic). Apparently this isn't supposed to take that long according to other guides but on my HP external DVD recorder, it takes hours. Two of 'em, to be precise. Your mileage may vary. You should end up with an arseload of .VOB, .IFO and .BUP files. "Arseload", for the record, is a technical term. You can now take the DVD back to the video shop as you don't need it any more. You can now place the original DVD, which you purchased with your hard earned cash thus paying your dues to the film studio, back on the shelf. Finding the Movie files 8. Load up IfoEdit.9. Click on open and navigate to where your arseload of files are.10. Open VIDEO_TS.IFO. We now need to determine which files contain the movie itself. The best way to determine this is to match up the "Title Play Maps". This screenshot is from the Region 1 version of Black Hawk Down. According to the DVD inlay, the main feature has 28 chapters. Title 1 has 28 chapters. We therefore know that title 1 is the movie. (Some of you may observe, "hey, DVD Decrypter already told us that! Why do it again?" Basically because DVD Decrypter has been known to get it wrong... ;-) 11. Make a note of which title number the main feature is, and close IfoEdit. Re-coding the movie to fit on a DVD The most irritating thing about ripping and copying DVDs is that the average commercial DVD doesn't fit on a DVD+RW. Commercial DVDs are usually dual-layer and can hold around 9Gb of data or so. DVD+RWs are single-layer and can only hold 4.7Gb. (In fact, they're lying through their teeth when they say DVD+RWs can hold 4.7Gb and the actual figure is more like 4.3Gb). So, to get a movie to fit on a DVD, you have to re-encode it at a smaller bit-rate. Think of it like using PK-Zip to compress your movie. (That said, if you find that the collective disk space used by your arseload of files is less than 4.3Gb, you can skip straight to the burning process, knock yourself out). 12. Load Notepad (in your Start Menu, in Accessories).13. Open the file in your ReMpeg folder called sample.cffl 14. Edit sample.cffl so it contains each of the .VOB files for your main movie. Basically, you need to edit this file so that it looks something like the above. In this case, the main movie was Title number 1 and had 6 .VOB files. If your main movie is title number 3 and has 7 .VOB files, then it'd be VTS_03_1.VOB, then VTS_03_2.VOB on the next line, down to VTS_07_7.VOB. (Remember you got your main movie's title number in step 10?) You must give the full pathname of your .VOB files. If your arseload of files was saved in c:\dvdrips, then you'd put this where I've got h:\. You must also leave the first line as just saying "CFFL", too. When you're happy with sample.cffl... 15. ...save it and close down Notepad.16. Open ReMpeg. Click on Open and load sample.cffl. ReMpeg will go away and display loads of meaningless numbers as above. This will take about 15 minutes or so depending on your PC so a cup of tea might be in order at this point. Minimise it while it runs, and, in the meantime, you also need to do a bit of maths. The Bitrate Calculator page is an essential tool. 17. Fill in the details of your DVD into the Bitrate Calculator. Basically you can just follow the numbers in my screenshot. Make sure the audio bitrate is on 384, type should be DVD and it should be 1 DVD x 4.37Gb. The only number that should differ is your "Video Min" where you should enter the length of your film in minutes (so, if it's two hours long, it'd be 120 mins). 18. Make a note of your Calculated Average Bitrate (which will change automatically as you fill the numbers into the relevent fields)19. Restore your minimised ReMpeg and click on Options 20. Move the "scale factor" slider (item 1 in the screenshot) across until the "resulting average bitrate" (2) is roughly the same as your calculated figure from step 18. (Bear in mind that the figure in ReMpeg is given in bits per second, and in the Bitrate Calculator it's kbits per second. ReMpeg's figure will be multiplied by 1000, then. It is best to err on the side of caution here. Reduce your calculated figure by a few hundred kbits per second or so. If the calculated size was, say, 3854 kbits/sec, reduce yours down to around 3500 kbits/sec. When you hit that "encode" button, the next step is going to take between six and ten hours. It would be a real pisser to get to the end and find that your resulting files are just a few megs too large to fit on a DVD. 21. Change the "output resolution" (item 3) to the highest available. NTSC titles will be 720 x 480, PAL a little more.22. Change the "frame mode" (item 4) to "match source". Everything else can be left on the defaults. 23. Click back on the "Main" tab.24. Click on "Encode". ReMpeg will now ask you where to save your file. This (assuming you judged the bitrate right) is going to end up about between 3.5Gb and 4Gb so make sure you have enough disk space. You also want to explicitly give the file a filename that has .m2v on the end -- my version of ReMpeg doesn't add it on. 25. Go to bed... ...as this will have to run overnight. In the morning, you should be greeted with the happy little message "Transcoding successful." Assembling it all into a DVD You're finished with ReMpeg now so close it down. Next, you'll need IfoEdit. 26. Fire up IfoEdit, click Open, go to the directory where DVD Decrypter originally ripped your movie to, and open up VTS_[x]_1.IFO, where [x] is the number of your main movie files. [x] will be the same name as you used when editing sample.cffl for ReMpeg, and is the number you noted down way way back in step 11. BE SURE NOT TO OPEN UP THE WRONG IFO FILE OTHERWISE YOU WILL END UP WITH A MESS RATHER THAN A DVD. VIDEO_TS.IFO is the WRONG IFO. You MUST open up the right VTS_[x]_1.IFO. It's not rocket science and I am in danger of labouring this point, but it is important to get this right. IfoEdit should look familiar, we used it way back in step 11, but let's recap: This time you don't need to worry about any of the stuff in the two main panels. 27. Click "Vob Extras". We are going to use IfoEdit to produce a collection of files which, when burned onto a DVD+R, will play in a DVD player. Again, you will need around another 4Gb's worth of disk space -- do NOT delete anything you've saved thus far, 28. Tick everything I have ticked in the screenshot, untick everything I have unticked in the screenshot.29. Fill in a destination directory. For future reference, we will call this directory your "Holy Grail", because it will eventually contain the files that make up your DVD.30. In the line ".m2v file for remux", fill in the directory and filename of the file you got out of ReMpeg back in step 24. 31. Click OK. You'll now get a list of things called streams. In this context, we're talking about the audio tracks, and the subtitles. 9 times out of 10 IfoEdit will automatically pick the best English streams for you. If you have a choice of a 5 or 6 channel sound track, versus a 2 channel sound track, pick the 5/6 channel -- it'll play just fine on non-surround systems. It's not recommended to select more than one language, as it probably won't fit on the disk. 32. Click "Strip It" It'll go away and churn like a good 'un. Let it do its thing. This would be a good time to go and get your morning coffee (assuming you let ReMpeg run overnight). It'll take half an hour or so, maybe a little more. When it's done, it'll declare "Finished correcting VOBU pointers". Which is nice. 33. Close down and re-open IfoEdit34. Click Open, go to your Holy Grail directory (step 29), and open VIDEO_TS.IFO. Do NOT open VTS_01_1.IFO.35. Click "Get VTS Sectors" It'll ask you if you want to process all VOB files. You do. It'll chuck up a few dialogue boxes which you can just click OK on; don't worry about the incomprehensibility of the content in these dialogue boxes that's quite normal. When it says "finished correcting sector addresses", you're done. Congratulations. What you now have is a collection of files which, when burnt to a DVD, will basically contain enough to entice a DVD player to play your movie. You can, if you wish, close and reopen IfoEdit, open up VIDEO_TS.IFO again and click on DVD Play -- you will effectively see what will happen when the disk is put in a player. Burning the DVD Now you're on the home straight. 35. Fire up Nero. You want to use Nero in its full "expert" mode, not in "express" mode. It should fire up and throw you straight into the "New Compliation" dialogue box. Select DVD Video and click on the ISO tab: 36. Match the settings in the screenshot. Turn everything off, and select ISO Level 1. Otherwise you'll end up with a DVD that'll play on a PC, but not on a dedicated player. You don't need to change any other settings. 36. Click New Nero will switch to its drag and drop mode. It should have already created empty folders called AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS for you, leave them alone. 37. Drag the files from your Holy Grail directory into VIDEO_TS. DON'T drag the directory itself -- go into the directory, highlight ALL the files and drag the files themselves. You should end up with something like this: And that, people, is that. You can now stick a DVD+R in your writer and burn the disk. 38. Go to the File Menu, and select "Write CD"39. Click "Write"40. Enjoy! Bibliography if you use neo ensur your movie is in folder VIDEO_TS AND ON COPY FROM JUST PUT C: CLICK MAKE DISKwww.doom9.comwww.vcdhelp.comDerrow's Site
HOPE THIS HELPS
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Turkur
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14. November 2002 @ 10:53 |
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What a large Text...
You can also burn DVDs with Instantcd/dvd.
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Galactus
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16. November 2002 @ 02:02 |
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wheelerdr's link to
http://www.hkruse.dircon.co.uk/ will work but do you want the reduced quality and longer encoding times?
Read the thread "SPLITTING DVD 9 to 2 DVD R's?"
MsCogna know's waht she's talking about.
Basically you need to split it to 2 dvd-rs, using dvd decrypter, ifoedit and burn with say nero. (couple of hours max)
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