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Tutorials > How to convert a DVD-9 to a DVD-5

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#258337 by unknown[306] at 2005-06-21 14:45:07 (8 years ago) - [Report]Top

This is the How-To convert or copy a DVD9 (retail) to a DVD5 (blank DVDR) or backup a DVD to your computer.

I suggest you use DVD Shrink to do the converting. You can find it here: hxxp://wxw.dvdshrink.org/ 



Download the newest version and install the app. Then follow these steps to make your backup or copy.





Step 1: DVD Shrink 3.2 First time setup


Set Target DVD Size to DVD-5 unless you want to store additional files on the DVD, in which case you can select Custom from the dropdown list, then enter a custom size.

Checking Hide audio and subpicture streams of insignificant size will spare you some grief trying to figure out where all those audio / subtitle streams came from in the global overview of some DVD discs so make sure it\'s checked.

Automatically open VIDEO_TS subfolders will save you a path selection click when using pre-ripped files. You won't have to select the VIDEO_TS folder but it's enough to select the folder that contains the VIDEO_TS folder (so for instance if you ripped a movie to like d:\dvd movies\VIDEO_TS, you'd only have to select d:\dvd movies\ as path in DVD Shrink and it would automatically open the files contained in d:\dvd movies\VIDEO_TS).

If you plan on using your PC during encoding, check Run analysis and backup in low priority mode to improve multi-tasking. But if you end up not using your PC this won't make things slower.



Then proceed to the preview preferences:

Make sure Enable video and audio preview is checked so that you can preview contents on the disc to find out what is what.

Then you can select a default audio configuration for the preview. If you have your stereo connected via S/PDIF select S/PDIF, if you have an analogue 5.1 output select 5.1-channel surround sound.

Then we have the DirectX video renderer. The default VMR-9 renderer allows other software (like a software DVD player) to access the video hardware at the same time, which can be rather CPU intensive. Thus, if playback becomes choppy or audio starts skipping during preview, select another renderer. Both VMR-7 and Overlay Mixer should be faster.



Then go to the Output Files preferences:

Remove Macrovision protection disabled the Macrovision flag on the output.

Remove P-UOPs removes prohibited user operations (P-UOPs force you to go back to the menu to change the language or force you to watch a trailer before the movie because the skip buttons have been disabled).

Remove layer break removes the small pause in between layers that you have on a dual layer DVD.

You most definitely want to leave Split VOB files into 1 GB size chunks checked because otherwise your output won't be DVD compliant and your standalone player might refuse to play the movie.

Logical remapping of enabled streams will remap audio and subtitle stream numbers in the IFO file. So if you have disabled stream number two, stream 3 on the original disc now becomes stream number 2, etc. That way, you shouldn't even notice that there are some streams mussing, but this doesn't always work.



Last but not least we have the Stream Selections preferences:

Here you can set defaults for desired audio and subtitle changes. If you don't want any subtitles, check Disable all subpictures except menus and forced streams.


Then press OK to get back to the main screen.


If you fancy different buttons, you can select Edit - Toolbar buttons and select a different set of buttons and / or change the font of the button text.




Step 2: Back up your DVD


The first thing you'll have to do after starting up DVD Shrink is select a source. Press Open Disk to get a list of available DVD drives:


A list of all available DVD drives on your computer will be shown. Select the one containing the movie.


Alternatively you could first rip the DVD to an ISO file using DVD Decrypter and create a virtual DVD drive which you will use as source.


If you have already ripped the DVD in file mode (thus you have a collection of .IFO, .BUP and .VOB files on your HD) press the Open Files button:


Then press browse and select the folder where your VIDEO_TS directory resides.


Once you've selected the source disc, or IFO file, DVD Shrink will perform a quick analyzation pass over all the video items. Just let it do its job, it won't take very long.


Once analysis has completed it's time to get to know the different parts of DVD Shrink, starting with the size bar.


This bar indicates the size of your project. If it contains a red part, your project is too large and won't fit onto a DVD±R disc. By default, DVD Shrink automatically selects a compression ratio to make your movie fit onto the allocated space (the output size you set up in the preferences).


In the upper left side of the window, the general structure of the DVD will be shown. As you can see there are 3 top categories, Menus, Main Movie and Extras. The folders react just like in Windows Explorer so you can click on those having a + sign and they'll open, displaying their contents.


To the right of the structure you have the individual streams contained in the item selected on the left side. Below you'll see how the main movie item looks like. It has a large video stream, 6 audio streams and two subtitle streams. The DVD Structure and the Streams part of the window are where you configure your project. You select the item you want to configure on the left, then you configure it on the right (set a compression ratio, deselect audio and subtitle streams you don't need).


Note that if you click on the DVD folder on the left, and the percentage shown on the right is 100%, your movie is small enough to fit onto a DVD±R disc without further processing and you can follow this guide to back it up.


Finally, on the lower left we have the preview window. It allows you to preview any title you click on. Simply click on a title, then press the play button. The preview window remembers its state, so if it is playing and you select another title, the title you have just selected will be played. If you stop playback, selecting another title will not start playing until you press play again.


If you right click within the preview window, you can change the audio channel, pause, stop and even switch to fullscreen for a better preview.


Now you have two options: You can either keep the entire DVD intact, or you can choose to only keep certain parts of the original DVD (for instance only the main movie, dropping extras and menus). Obviously, keeping the entire DVD, the video has to be compressed more to fit on a single DVD±R disc, but it allows you to keep all the fancy menus. If you want to keep everything, press the Backup! button.


If you prefer to keep only parts of the disc and discarding parts (or all) of the extras, select Re-author instead (technically, when re-authoring you create a new disc from scratch and add whatever you like from the original disc to it). Re-author allows you to create your own DVD by putting only content that you really want on a DVD. It does not allow you to keep the menus though. If you want to entirely remove certain items but keep the menus you have to use program like IfoEdit or commercial transcoders like InstantCopy and DVD95Copy. You can also combine IfoEdit with DVD Shrink, remove stuff you don't want in IfoEdit, then compress the remaining movies using the Re-encode function of DVD Shrink but that's beyond the scope of this guide since DVD Shrink is a program mainly designed for beginners.

Tips for better quality:

You can choose to make the "EXTRA'S" and "MENU" in a much lesser quality by choosing "CUSTOM RATIO" in your main screen of DVD Shrink and then drop back the % till it is fully to the left with the least amount of %.

You can choose to drop the extra "SUBTITLES" (SUBPICTURE) and extra "SOUND STREAMS" (AUDIO)  to make the overall movie quality better.

If you have the DVD with the movie in your drive and pressed the "BACK UP" button, go to the tab "QUALITY SETTINGS". There mark Perform Deep Analysis with a V and mark Compress Video With High Quality Adaptive Error Compensation with a V. This should increase the quality a lot!!

#264636 by DKre8ive1 (VIP) at 2005-06-25 11:01:43 (8 years ago) - [Report]Top

Lets keep this on topic and again avoid spamming the thread and just post if you have a question regarding the tutorial and Do Not Post other ways to achive the same outcome if you want to do that please feel free to do your own tutorials and post them like a few of our other users have done already and again thank you for your understanding regarding this matter.

Last edited by DKre8ive1 at 2005-06-25 12:15:54

#264665 by unknown[8148] at 2005-06-25 11:33:56 (8 years ago) - [Report]Top

For the Linux-GUI ppl:
dvdshrink
lxdvdrip
Those are the best transcode-gui's i found, there are plenty of HowTo's and Tutorials out there
 

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