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DVDFABdecrypter & ImgBurn
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10. November 2008 @ 09:24 |
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I have been using DvdFabDecrypter, Shrink & DVD Decrypter to burn my DVD's for quite some time now and have had very good luck with them.
Reciently I started to use ImgBurn for burning CD's and I am wondering if ImgBurn will take the place of Shrink and Dvd Decrypter in my DVD burning operation?
Will ImgBurn shrink and burn an image from DvdFabDecrypter?
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10. November 2008 @ 09:32 |
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Will ImgBurn shrink and burn an image from DvdFabDecrypter?
No.
The full version of Fab will shrink for you.
ImgBurn burns.
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10. November 2008 @ 09:42 |
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Effectively, DvdFab Hd Decrypter takes the place of Dvd Decrypter for the ripping.
Imgburn takes the place of DvdD Decrypter for the burning portion.
So the process should look like this.
1. Rip dvd to HDD with DvdFab
2. Transcode (compress) with Dvd Shrink
3. Burn with Imgburn.
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Mez
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10. November 2008 @ 15:53 |
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I am too lazy to hunt for you but you can find it on this board or you can Google it. You need a modified Shrink that calls Imgburn. Imgburn is written by the same person who wrote DVD Decrypter.
If you are going through a 3 step process you may as well add FixVTS after the DeFab step. That is the main reason persons don't just use a paid for version of DeFab as a one step process. It only adds a little extra time and is cleans up your video. It insures each frame is linked to the next frame properly. DeFab is supposed to do that but try it and see. You will not see any more skippy flicks, even if the original is skippy. If you are going to shrink let DeFab do that. Then the Shrink process flies for me.
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10. November 2008 @ 17:12 |
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10. November 2008 @ 17:24 |
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Just thought I'd throw my 2 cents in.
I never auto burn with any program. I like to check that everything looks and plays before burning. If I see something I don't like, I can correct it. When I'm happy with what I have, then and only then will I burn.
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10. November 2008 @ 17:41 |
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That's a good way to not end up wasting a perfectly good blank disc.
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10. November 2008 @ 17:45 |
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I just checked my ImgBurn statistics. It reports I have burned 1,486 discs.
All of them were successful burns.
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13. November 2008 @ 00:40 |
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WOW....I just got done making a backup of I Am Legend.....It took me over an hour using DvdFab, FixVTS, Shrink, and ImgBurn!
I guess thats the price of using freeware though.
Do you guys let ImgBurn verify the copy when you get done burning it?
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13. November 2008 @ 06:01 |
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I can't speak for Imgburn but in my experience the so called verification feature in burning programs is less than worthless. I personally recommend CRC scanning. What i do (only if i buy different media than i normally use, and/or buy a new DVD burner) is to CRC scan the first few discs, and if no corruption is found i cease CRC scanning.
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13. November 2008 @ 07:43 |
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I leave the 'verify' feature turned off. I don't use it for much the same reason...seems useless.
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Mez
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13. November 2008 @ 08:36 |
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Ditto and I think it takes at least as long to verify as to burn. I have a very slow computer and the two middle steps take less than 10 minutes combined. The first step takes most of the time.
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13. November 2008 @ 14:10 |
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Do you guys let ImgBurn verify the copy when you get done burning it?
No, not necessary, but the choice is yours.
Originally posted by GETaklu:
WOW....I just got done making a backup of I Am Legend.....It took me over an hour using DvdFab, FixVTS, Shrink, and ImgBurn!
I guess thats the price of using freeware though.
Out of curiosity, what's your system's info/specs? I can do all of those within 45 mins and still get high quality backups in the end. However, my method is just a tab different (DVDFab HD Decrypter, VobBlanker, Recode 3 and Nero Burning Rom or ImgBurn).
Both Nero and ImgBurn are fine to me, been burning flawlessly.
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Mez
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14. November 2008 @ 08:59 |
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alkohol, without verification my normal process time is inline with yours even with a very old computer. I do remember trying verification once with imgburn. That process took long enough for me to never do that again. GETaklu's time is in line with my vague rememberances of the process. I assumed the process could not have lasted as long as I though it had.
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15. November 2008 @ 11:26 |
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alkohol,
I am running a 3 gig Pentium 4 HT processor with 1024 meg of DDR ram on a Asus motherboard, 80 gig Maxtor HD, Nvidia gfx card w/ 128 mb of ram. And I think Liteon DVD writer, inside a Thermaltake Tsunami tower. I am kinda fuzzy on the specs....I built this system about 4 years ago and just can't remember.
As far as a one click DVD backup program, is the full version of DVDfab Decrypter HD a good program to buy?
I don't mind using a 4 step process to backup, but I'm working 2 full time jobs and don't really have the time to do it right now.
Time it takes me to complete each step:
DVDfab Decrypter: 8 to 9 minutes.
FxiVTS: 7 to 8 minutes.
Shrink: About 7 minutes to encode and about double that to analyze and encode.
ImgBurn: 8 to 9 minutes.
ImgBurn verify: about 10 minutes.
This is based on the movie I Am Legend, of course it takes less time for smaller images.
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15. November 2008 @ 11:34 |
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What did I just do?
Sorry for the mutiple posts.....I though I was editing the message.
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15. November 2008 @ 19:21 |
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GETaklu
For quick and easy Dvdfab is a very good one.
Another one is anydvd which runs in the back round. You can use shrink or dvdclone ect.
Its always good to have multiple programs at your disposal
Those times not look to bad to me..
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16. November 2008 @ 22:34 |
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But the 4 step process I am currently using will turn out quality copies though right?
I have currently have AnyDVD, but I don't use it much anymore because I have had problems backing up some newer movies with it, especially Disney movies. I think that I would purchase DVDFab Decrypter if they had a one time purchase license like AnyDVD. I don't really feel like paying every year for something when there is so much freeware out there.
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17. November 2008 @ 00:23 |
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alkohol,
I don't mind using a 4 step process to backup, but I'm working 2 full time jobs and don't really have the time to do it right now.
Time it takes me to complete each step:
DVDfab Decrypter: 8 to 9 minutes.
FxiVTS: 7 to 8 minutes.
Shrink: About 7 minutes to encode and about double that to analyze and encode.
ImgBurn: 8 to 9 minutes.
ImgBurn verify: about 10 minutes.
Those looks good to me, you just need to uncheck "verify" via ImgBurn because it's not necessary.
To be honest with you, I have a big tv (51' SONY HDTV), so all I want from my backups is/are quality plus playable in all of my DVD players.
I see that we're using the same stuff, except I'm using VobBlanker to delete/blank unwanted junks and it's time is roughly 3 - 5 minutes process. Other than that I'm using Nero Recode 3 to transcode (even if I'm using "Advanced Analysis + High Quality Mode + Assign Best Quality to Main Movie") and I strongly deemed that it's faster than DVD Shrink in my opinion.
Good luck and happy burning.
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17. November 2008 @ 09:56 |
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Ok....I'm gona keep doing it the way I am doing then.
Thanks for the help.
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