Internal DVD burners
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skittle

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312 posts

279 months

Monday 23rd February 2004
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I'm looking to create "backups" of my dvd's and also make backups region free so they can play on my works laptop when I go abroad.

Can anyone recommend an internal DVD burner and software for my home PC (not a laptop)

Thanks in advance

130tdi

1,153 posts

265 months

Monday 23rd February 2004
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Skittle,

YHM

PGM

2,168 posts

267 months

Monday 23rd February 2004
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and me please

Paul

130tdi

1,153 posts

265 months

Monday 23rd February 2004
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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

JonRB

78,521 posts

290 months

Monday 23rd February 2004
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130tdi said:
To shrink the resulting files to <4.7GB software called dvd2one or dvdshrink is again recommended.
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.

MickC

1,074 posts

276 months

Monday 23rd February 2004
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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

130tdi

1,153 posts

265 months

Monday 23rd February 2004
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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.

JonRB

78,521 posts

290 months

Monday 23rd February 2004
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MickC said:
Or loss of content (or both).

Depends if you want DTS 6.1 soundtrack in French, Italian and German, and a 'making of' featurette.
Oh yeah. I han't thought of that. D'Oh!

(Is there a dunce's hat emoticon?)

watkid

3,636 posts

271 months

Wednesday 25th February 2004
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JonRB said:

[Oh yeah. I han't thought of that. D'Oh!

(Is there a dunce's hat emoticon?)




antonyb

277 posts

279 months

Wednesday 25th February 2004
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130tdi said:
The only film I've found so far that was too big after shrinking is Gangs Of New York.


use dvdfab to split to 2 dvd's with a nice disk change screen!

there are plenty that dont fit on one disk though... just an observation...

Podie

46,646 posts

293 months

Wednesday 25th February 2004
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Cobblers.

Look up "DVD Shrink"

Great, FREE programme.. rips DVDs... then burn using Nero or similar.

rosso rebel

303 posts

272 months

Thursday 26th February 2004
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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

Tim2100

6,287 posts

275 months

Monday 1st March 2004
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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.