Internal DVD burners
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The following is all based on rumour
NEC 1300A dvd burner is a good starting point.
You need to 'crack' the region coding - dvddecrypter is a must.
To shrink the resulting files to <4.7GB software called dvd2one or dvdshrink is again recommended.
The above software can all be legally found on the relevant .com address or a little less legally in the right places . . . .
Nero express above V5.5.10.45 is required for recognising DVD burners and creating the relevant directories for burning.
www.afterdawn.com has a very useful forum for any questions.
One thing I learnt very quickly is that the media has to be matched to the burner - Not like CD's where it seems anything goes.
Good Luck (it does work !)
SMP

NEC 1300A dvd burner is a good starting point.
You need to 'crack' the region coding - dvddecrypter is a must.
To shrink the resulting files to <4.7GB software called dvd2one or dvdshrink is again recommended.
The above software can all be legally found on the relevant .com address or a little less legally in the right places . . . .
Nero express above V5.5.10.45 is required for recognising DVD burners and creating the relevant directories for burning.
www.afterdawn.com has a very useful forum for any questions.
One thing I learnt very quickly is that the media has to be matched to the burner - Not like CD's where it seems anything goes.
Good Luck (it does work !)
SMP
130tdi said:That's the thing you need to remember. Most DVD films are multi-layer, whereas a recordable DVD is single layer only, so unlike an audio CD where you can just image the media, you need to decode and compress to squeeze a film onto a recordable DVD. Of course, you have to accept a loss of quality.
To shrink the resulting files to <4.7GB software called dvd2one or dvdshrink is again recommended.
MickC said:
JonRB said:
Of course, you have to accept a loss of quality.
Or loss of content (or both).
Depends if you want DTS 6.1 soundtrack in French, Italian and German, and a 'making of' featurette.
>> Edited by MickC on Monday 23 February 17:18
Sorry, I forgot to mention the above.
The only film I've found so far that was too big after shrinking is Gangs Of New York. Apply a bit more compression (5%) using DVDshrink and Robert is my fathers brother.
TBH I haven't noticed a drop off in quality, but I'm not using a particularly modern TV
I tend to get the film, 2ch and DTS 6.1 audio together with the English subtitles on one 4.7GB disc.
The critical thing seems to be using a decent brand of blank media and a big hard drive.
i have heard (nudge nudge wink wink) that dvdxcopy is also very useful and that the xpress version can give you a number of options like picking which soundtrack you want and what screen size and gets all films onto to one disc!whilst also breaking any protection code that might be on the original
I normally use DVD decripter to decode the disk, then Instant Copy or Instant DVD to compress the disk down, and again Instant DVD to copy back to the DVD.Instant DVD will always bring the size down to fit on a DVD. Only disadvantage is that you can't choose what to compress, i.e. it compresses the whole film and includes everything on you disk including extra, you can easily take out the languages & subtitles.
If you do want to take out the extar's using Instant copy then you can get instant copy hidden settings that can do this.
Tim.
If you do want to take out the extar's using Instant copy then you can get instant copy hidden settings that can do this.
Tim.
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