|
This is my first post and I feel your pain. I am just now getting the hang of this DVD thing. Let me see if I can help and to anyone else out there with more experience, which is pretty much everyone except sib, if I say something stupid, please correct me.
Smartripper is a good tool. It will "rip" all the contents of a DVD into a specified file. Now here is the kicker, in case someone hasn't told you yet, most commercial DVD movies are larger than 4.7 GB, which just happens to be the size of the typical DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R or DVD+RW that you are trying to squeeze the movie on to. So, you need a program that will do just that, "squeeze"(compress) the movie.
Now, as you know, everything on a DVD takes up space, the movie, the audio track(s), the menus, the special features, etc. One thing that a lot of folks do is strip all of the extra stuff out, that will save some space. If that doesn't do it, then you will actually have to "shrink"(compress) the movie. Remember, when you compress a movie, you will lose some quality however even on my 47 inch Panasonic HDTV hooked up with component out, they still look pretty good. Anyway, once you get the movie compressed to a size that will fit, then you can burn it.
Now you said you are using Nero and it is saying that there isn't enough memory on the media or the compilation failed, right? What version of Nero are you using? Are you using a version that supports DVD burning or only CD burning?
Anyway, here is how I am currently doing my movies. I use DVDDecrypter(similar to Smartripper, does the same thing and free like Smartripper) to rip the DVD. I then use DVDShrink(free) or DVD2One(not free) to strip out the extra, unneeded content and "shrink"(compress) the movie to a burnable size. I then use Nero(a great program however your version must support DVD burning) to burn the DVD and.............voila, movie.
Now the easy(and very fast I might add) way around all of this is to use DVD X Copy Express from 123 Studios. It is most definitely not free, however I have it, it gives good results and is as easy to use as playing a DVD in a typical DVD player.
There are many other ways to do what I just described and I am sure that you will hear about them here. Check out doom9.org for tutorials and walkthroughs. Good luck and try out that search function for these forums, tons of good info.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 4. June 2003 @ 00:55
|
