DVD2ONE, backup any DVD in less than an hour?

[Atrac]

Originally posted by: BlackNinja

Originally posted by: may

Originally posted by: ldreher
OK, I'm a believer... I paid for the full copy of this, made a backup of Behind Enemy Lines and the copy looks great (at least on my PC). It failed to play on my player but this is the first DVD Rom I've tried to play on it so it may be the player. I used Roxio to burn it as a Data DVD and made sure the files were in a VIDEO_TS folder. Should that have worked? I used Roxio because it came with the Pioneer A05 drive I just got.

Did you create an empty folder called "AUDIO_TS" ?

Do u need to put anything in the AUDIO_TS folder? or everything go into VIDEO_TS? thansk

The AUDIO_TS folder is used for DVD-Audio discs (which is similar to SACD).

 

[huey1124]

in general, what is the minimum CPU requirement for ripping, encoding, and burning DVD (MPEG-2?) files? i have a dual P3 600mhz CPU's in my desktop, with 256MB of RDRAM. will that be enough to do what most of you guys are doing? (DVDdecrypter -> DVD2ONE -> NERO)

also, i have several MPEG-2 movie files on my HDD. can DVD2ONE recompress it to fit on a single disc straight from MPEG-2, or do they have to be in VOB files? i could burn MPEG-2 in NERO, but i want to make sure that the file will fit on a single disc first.

thanks in advance!

 

[Maverick]

Originally posted by: Atrac

Originally posted by: BlackNinja

Originally posted by: may

Originally posted by: ldreher
OK, I'm a believer... I paid for the full copy of this, made a backup of Behind Enemy Lines and the copy looks great (at least on my PC). It failed to play on my player but this is the first DVD Rom I've tried to play on it so it may be the player. I used Roxio to burn it as a Data DVD and made sure the files were in a VIDEO_TS folder. Should that have worked? I used Roxio because it came with the Pioneer A05 drive I just got.

Did you create an empty folder called "AUDIO_TS" ?

Do u need to put anything in the AUDIO_TS folder? or everything go into VIDEO_TS? thansk

The AUDIO_TS folder is used for DVD-Audio discs (which is similar to SACD).

But players won't read the disc if there is no AUDIO_TS folder...its part of the spec. and the disc must be closed when you burn it. Some players are pickier than others.

BTW I tried this last night on Shrek and it came out great. I could barely tell the difference. And it compressed the file to under 4 GIG. Amazing program. It takes about an hour to do everything (ripping, re-encoding, and burning) but compared to 8-12 hours for re-encoding alone its a great deal.

As for the quality difference, I just think of it as a sacrifice I make by copying the DVD. If I want full quality and all extras I'll buy another copy of the movie.

 

[Codewiz]

As for the quality difference, I just think of it as a sacrifice I make by copying the DVD. If I want full quality and all extras I'll buy the movie.

Why are you going to say something like that???? You are just admitting you are breaking copyright laws. This program is for backing up DVDs you already own. Not for stealing the movies......

 

[Maverick]

Originally posted by: Codewiz

As for the quality difference, I just think of it as a sacrifice I make by copying the DVD. If I want full quality and all extras I'll buy the movie.

Why are you going to say something like that???? You are just admitting you are breaking copyright laws. This program is for backing up DVDs you already own. Not for stealing the movies......

there I edited my post. I would buy a SECOND COPY of the movie if I wanted a copy with full extras. Are you happy now copyright nazi?

 

[Codewiz]

Originally posted by: Shiva112

Originally posted by: Codewiz

As for the quality difference, I just think of it as a sacrifice I make by copying the DVD. If I want full quality and all extras I'll buy the movie.

Why are you going to say something like that???? You are just admitting you are breaking copyright laws. This program is for backing up DVDs you already own. Not for stealing the movies......

there I edited my post. I would buy a SECOND COPY of the movie if I wanted a copy with full extras. Are you happy now copyright nazi?

I personally don't give a rat's ass what you do. I was just trying to help you out before the mods came down on your ass.

Edit: After thinking about your comment maybe I shouldn't have been so nice...

 

[huesmann]

Maybe you can blow it up your own @$$.

 

[krackato]

I'd like to see this program updated specifically to handle multi-episodic TV show DVD releases. Those are almost always 8gb per disc and if you didn't shrink it, you'd need like 14 discs for each season. That's 98 discs for something like the entire series of TNG. I'm sorry, there's no way I'm paying $700-800 for 150 hours of programming that I'm probably never going to watch anyway.

 

[QueHuong]

Wow..looks promising. Thanks.

 

[GoodToGo]

Looks very interesting. I want to try it with my Sony DRU-500A.

 

[Jugernot]

Originally posted by: huesmann
I suspect what it does is remove frames and just duplicates neighboring ones.

Nope, as others have said... with longer movies some compression is seen, so it seems that it does not remove frames. That is what I first thought too...

 

[DrPizza]

Okay... I'm convinced. It's time to build my new computer, and one of the components will have to be a dvd burner... which means I'll get this software. Not for the purpose of downloading movies, but for being able to back up movies. Having 2 children (11 and 12 yrs old) means that any dvd's or cd's get kinda scratched before too long. I'd rather not have them ruining my movies.

 

[Jugernot]

Originally posted by: huey1124
in general, what is the minimum CPU requirement for ripping, encoding, and burning DVD (MPEG-2?) files? i have a dual P3 600mhz CPU's in my desktop, with 256MB of RDRAM. will that be enough to do what most of you guys are doing? (DVDdecrypter -> DVD2ONE -> NERO)

also, i have several MPEG-2 movie files on my HDD. can DVD2ONE recompress it to fit on a single disc straight from MPEG-2, or do they have to be in VOB files? i could burn MPEG-2 in NERO, but i want to make sure that the file will fit on a single disc first.

thanks in advance!

I'm using a P4 2.26GHz so I really couldn't tell you, but I doubt the program was written to take advantage of SMP. I think you'll just have a to wait a little longer as it'll only be using one of your CPUs.

As for your VOB questions, it think it requires them. DVD2ONE is a very simple program and almost nothing can be specified as far as files go.

 

[vfrjim]

This is great, used DVD Decrypter to rip the disk, used DVD2ONE to extract main part of the movie with 6 ch audio, used RecordNowMAX to burn it to a 4X Ritek disk using my Cendyne (Pioneer 105) burner and plays perfectly on my Panasonic RP91K stand alone DVD player, total of an hour per disk including ripping and buring, GREAT PRODUCT!!

Jim

 

[Jhill]

Has anyone been able to burn a dvd with 2 subtitles and voice 2 languages and still make it fit one 1 disc?

 

[vfrjim]

Has anyone been able to burn a dvd with 2 subtitles and voice 2 languages and still make it fit one 1 disc?

It probably could be done, but why would you want to? I want quality NOT quanity, IMO.

Jim

 

[Dre]

Originally posted by: Jhill
Has anyone been able to burn a dvd with 2 subtitles and voice 2 languages and still make it fit one 1 disc?

You can do that with DVD2one. But you will lose video quality.

 

[Jhill]

Originally posted by: DreDay

Originally posted by: Jhill
Has anyone been able to burn a dvd with 2 subtitles and voice 2 languages and still make it fit one 1 disc?

You can do that with DVD2one. But you will lose video quality.

Thanks, do you guys know the amount of quality I would lose? Would it be a little or would the picture be really bad. I'm not to worried if the loss of quality is barely visable.

 

[Kwad Guy]

Of course, now the question is: How much info can you squeeze onto a single DVD and maintain WATCHABLE
quality. Not DVD quality, but good enough to, say, satisfy your kids.

I'm thinking something like squeezing all the available Spongebob DVDs onto one DVD (probably 5-6 hours
available). No question it won't be DVD quality, but it might be watchable...

Has anyone tried squeezing a ridiculous amount of stuff onto one DVD? This might also give a clue as to exactly
how the program is working (artifacts will become much more apparent!)

Kwad

 

[krackato]

I think that with animation, you could squeeze more video than if you were compressing film and have it still look decent. You might as well try 5-6 hours of animation and report back to us how it looks. Besides, kids are much less likely to care if the quality isn't all there.

 

[SearchMaster]

Originally posted by: Kwad Guy
Of course, now the question is: How much info can you squeeze onto a single DVD and maintain WATCHABLE
quality. Not DVD quality, but good enough to, say, satisfy your kids.

I'm thinking something like squeezing all the available Spongebob DVDs onto one DVD (probably 5-6 hours
available). No question it won't be DVD quality, but it might be watchable...

Has anyone tried squeezing a ridiculous amount of stuff onto one DVD? This might also give a clue as to exactly
how the program is working (artifacts will become much more apparent!)

Kwad

Of course, "watchable" is a relative term, but if you've done any DVD to SVCD conversion, you know that you can have a pretty low bitrate and still have a "watchable" result. I can generally do about 75 minutes on a 700MB CD and get quality that is good enough before it REALLY bothers me, and my kids (very young still) never know the difference. So six hours should still be pretty good quality with the size of a DVD, IMHO, especially for the target audience. Probably roughly digital satellite quality.

Before I get flamed, I know I wouldn't put a Star Wars trilogy on a single DVD and expect to be blown away by the image quality, but we ARE talking about Sponge Bob here.

 

[hddy]

do u put the empty AUDIO_TS folder inside the VIDEO_TS folder or next to it? i didn't have any AUDIO_TS folder when i tried vanilla sky and it came out great and played in my ps2 becaue i don't have a stand alone dvd player.

 

[DanFungus]

Originally posted by: hddy
do u put the empty AUDIO_TS folder inside the VIDEO_TS folder or next to it? i didn't have any AUDIO_TS folder when i tried vanilla sky and it came out great and played in my ps2 becaue i don't have a stand alone dvd player.

it doesn't go inside the VIDEO_TS folder, and in a lot of things that i've seen, there isn't an AUDIO_TS folder, or there's nothing inside it...so, no worries

 

[douglassirk]

its a nice program and hopefully will get better... but even with a 5.4gb movie you do notice artifacts and crawling flashing pixels (like on satellite tv withg the sharpness and contrast all up too high...)

60 cents a disk now for dvd blanks i cant see suffering with not perfect picture for 60 cents....

now when this guy makes a dvdxcopy like splitter and incorporates it into this program we are all set

oh and do the episodic multi episode disks too... thats another biggie....

 

[GoodToGo]

While this product is absolutely great for people who dont have the time or the knowledge of using re-encoding, this doesnt quite satisfy me since I am a quality whore

To see a product that can replicate a DVD so fast represents a big leap in dvd copy programs. While I will not jump to this right now since I can re-encode with my eyes shut, I can definitely see that within a few years products that combine everything will be available for the same price.