Another HHAH member with DVD-R - Tips Please!

paul-scream22 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2003 12:10 pm **Post subject:**

I went for tmpeg author!!!

Can easily create a dvd campatible video_ts folder, and with the no-menu option all you get is the film :mrgreen:

Ok from my experience dvdclone is the best tool in terms of functionality and feedback and style. How-ever if you want simple one-click dvd9 to 5 conversion then go for dvd2one. It's a bare bones prgram that literally in one click will re-encode a 5GIG+ disc into 4.7GIG dvdr! You just choose movie or full disc!

But clone-dvd looks better and gives you more features :wink:

As for the avi-dvd, DJ Benz's link that uses DVD2SVCD and CCE, works perfectly!

Ripped an avi to MPEG2 in a matter of hours and then authored it without menus in TMPEG!!!

The only draw back is you need at least 5GIG+ free space

As it demuxes the video and converts it several times before muxing the audio+video together.
But on an 80 GIG hard drive i had no probs.

DxaKrator · **Posted:** Tue Oct 21, 2003 7:26 am **Post subject:**

I am going to stick with the Tmpenc authoring thing...I have squeezed 3 movies on 1 dvd and the longest part of the process was burning at 1x on these crappy Compusa brand dvd-r's I got.
I am going to use CCE for all the avi transfers though.Damn I love that Clonedvd,makes fitting anything on a snap unlike the moviemaker 2.

paul-scream22 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2003 4:25 pm **Post subject:**

hhhmmmmm.

DxaKrator. I use the CCE approach with SVCD2DVD and it works a treat.

Takes 2-3 hours to encode a 700MB avi file into a 2.3 gig mpeg2 file

Which is a little big becuase I can only fit 2 movies on a dvdr using the CCE encoder technique.

So what settings do you use in Tmpenc, or maybe Tmpenc is just better at encoding than CCE, if you can squeeze 3 movies on a dvdr and I can only fit 2 with CCE?

ViSCeRaL · **Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2003 4:40 pm **Post subject:**

paul-scream22 wrote:

Which is a little big becuase I can only fit 2 movies on a dvdr using the CCE encoder technique.

So what settings do you use in Tmpenc, or maybe Tmpenc is just better at encoding than CCE, if you can squeeze 3 movies on a dvdr and I can only fit 2 with CCE?

Change the bitrate/filesize in CCE to allow you to fit more on the disc.

Doofus. :wink:

Under the bitrate tab, change the 'disc size' from 2200 to 1400 and reduce the bitrate by a similar percentage.

paul-scream22 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2003 5:19 pm **Post subject:**

Did you just call me a doofus?

Do you want to me to mention a certain wrongly ripped release recently on this board??

LOL

Good idea, will change it.

Whats the lowest you go to before quality starts to suck?

ViSCeRaL · **Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2003 8:10 pm **Post subject:**

paul-scream22 wrote:

Did you just call me a doofus?

Do you want to me to mention a certain wrongly ripped release recently on this board??

What? The Burning?

paul-scream22 wrote:

Good idea, will change it.

Whats the lowest you go to before quality starts to suck?

Dunno, I've only ever done 2-movie multi's.

paul-scream22 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2003 11:04 pm **Post subject:**

DJBenz wrote:

paul-scream22 wrote:

Did you just call me a doofus?

Do you want to me to mention a certain wrongly ripped release recently on this board??

What? The Burning?

Oh Oh ....... I don't beleive it ..... the cheek........ :oops:

Lets just never mention our ripping mistakes again. OK?

DxaKrator · **Posted:** Thu Oct 23, 2003 3:36 am **Post subject:**

I would say you can put a little over 9gb of data on a dvd using tmpenc authorer..cause after 9 it say it won't make one with 10.
Here is my process at the moment.Rip with dvd decrypter the entire dvd,then open the file up with clonedvd and select what you want to rip.rip that into another folder and then open up tmpenc dvd authorer and select dvd files and it will make an mpg for you.save that file to another directory,repeat the process with 2 other movies.(the tricky part with dong it this way is you have to have the same type of audio streams..got fuckered up on a couple like that and had to rerip a few movies.For myself I choose ac3 2 channel as I don't got my surround hooked up anyways.)
From there you should have 3 mpg files,now choose add file from tmpenc and join the 3 together,You will get an error messages saying it is not going to fit on dvd and just click ignore.When that is done you should have a Video_ts folder with that rip you just made in it.now take Clone dvd and add that folder to it and shrink it to size.
Now you should have a dvd folder that you are able to burn using whatever method you want.Did 8 dvd's like this and it works everytime..the quality issue is not noticable at least by me.Still better than a divx rip.I don't see blocks or tracers and other signs of beeing ripped low.

paul-scream22 · **Posted:** Fri Nov 14, 2003 5:31 pm **Post subject:**

OK well I've been converting and ripping away like mad :twisted:

And am pleased with the results of SVCD2DVD with the CCE encoder.

However I've found some newbie tools that do the process automatically. they take a bit longer and you can't choose the bitrate etc, but they give great results!

Anyway, just posting to ask, that on the SR forum pages people post saying that all the shrinking programs like dvd2one,dvd95,dvdshrink,clonedvd etc are all crap and give bad results and that the standad format for the psoted dvdrs is to use CCE?

How can cce re-encode vob files?

I use DVD2One and it works amazingly! Fits a 8GIG dvd to 4.6 gigs and I can't see the difference :shock:

Now i need to start making my own fancy dvd menus :lol:

DxaKrator · **Posted:** Sat Nov 15, 2003 4:23 am **Post subject:**

That is one thing that I liked about Moviefactory 2,making the menus was a snap.And they have alot of different templates.Comes in good for those Music video dvd's I like making :mrgreen:

d0c · **Posted:** Sat Nov 15, 2003 11:00 am **Post subject:**

PHEW! holy crap this was a long read :shock:

gonna take a nap now... bbl...

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Thu Feb 19, 2004 10:23 am **Post subject:**

Right, sorry to ressurect this old chestnut, but I just wanted to thank DJBenz for the DVDLab tip, this program is amazing! I've just burnt a double feature (Brother Bear & Finding Nemo) to DVD.

The menu that DVDLab enable me to produce is more or less indistinguishable from a retail DVD, i'm seriously impressed.

Just a quick question though, how much does quality suffer if you put 3 movies on 1 DVD? (if anyone's done it). With 2 I honestly find it difficult to tell teh difference between the source and the DVD!

ViSCeRaL · **Posted:** Thu Feb 19, 2004 5:27 pm **Post subject:**

I've only gone to two max on a disc, but I guess you'll get a little degradation of quality with three, but it'll still be very watchable.

ohgodnotanotherone · **Posted:** Thu Feb 19, 2004 5:31 pm **Post subject:**

Quick question to nec 1300 owners :

What is the best firmware version ( hacked or not ) out there then...?

I've found enough of 'em, but as I read thru some comments most are NOT without side effects.....albeit minor , merely annoying ones....

PC_Arcade · **Posted:** Mon Feb 23, 2004 12:23 pm **Post subject:**

I'm currently using 108v2 special and it seems good, although if truth be told, i don't really use the advanced features of the drive (if indeed there are any).

El Mariachi · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2004 6:57 pm **Post subject:**

Yeah we should fill the horror DVD-R release... although I think that section is gone now

I use DVD Decrypter to remove the macrovision and region code.
Then I use DVD2ONE which has an option for Copy2dvd so I can remove extra useless audio and/or extra's and (if necessary) shrink a DVD to 4.3GB

I still feel ripped off when they say a disc is 4.7GB though :matrix:

John_Doe · **Posted:** Sat Mar 20, 2004 5:58 am **Post subject:**

acording to http://dvd.box.sk/ (if you take a look) they've compared alot of dvd-copying proggys and as you said DVDShrink really sucks and Pinacle is much much better. There are screens there so you can easily see for yourself. But even better than that again is InterVideo DVD Copy v. 1.2. any comments?

A little sad though that it doesn't support protected dvds, so I guess I'll first have to rip with dvddecrypter, then take away extras with smartripper and then shrink with InterVideo DVD Copy? (or maybe intervideo can remove the extras too?)

PS: extras=additional audio tracks and subs, NOT bonus material

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