Ripping Lord of the Rings, got some Ques....
 

Gonna rip this movie to DVD-R with just the movie only. This DVD comes with 2 discs(disc1 is the movie and disc2 is the extras). Disc1 is around 7.x gigs. I run DVD Decrypter and select 'movie only'. It hilights the files and decrypts them to my VIDEO_TS folder. The guide i was reading says i need to open IFOedit and select VBOextras adn run that which im not sure what it does. Do i have to use IFOedit? or can i burn the VIDEO_TS folder direct to a DVD-R w/o IFOedit? Can Primo burn the VIDEO_TS folder? i hear alot of people have Nero but i dont. thanks for your help

first off u will need to cut out all the shit that comes with a dvd like sound and video options . you can use dvd decripter or smart ripper . use the video stream option and just keep what u want like english ac3 and pal video.
once you have ripped it the film will still be to big to fit on a dvd-r as its over 1h 30 mins so you must re encode it using a lower birate . rempeg 2 is very good at this .
look at the guide on dvd to dvd-r on www.vcdhelp.com.
good luck...................

Also u can split the main movie files with ifoedit into 2 discs.U can find the option under vob extra->split.Thats how i succesfull backed up this movies.But funny things happens,so just see my thread about splitting

why would you want to split this film.
i hate doing that. it just wrecks the whole point of making a dvd.
if you use rempeg2 u cant realy tell the difference if its done correctly.
you can get the birate spot on if you use this calculator. just open it up and tell it were your 2 files are .
if you have ripped it correctly you should have a m2v and an ac3 file and nothing else.
it then calculates the 2 files and gives you a perfect scale.
find it at
http://www.fukrulez.com/modules.php?...ownload&cid=10

OK if i use DVD Decrypter and select 'movie only', it hilights the important files. It reads them and saves to my VIDEO_TS folder. If i open IFOedit0.94 and open the VIDEO_TS folder then try to click 'play dvd' i get error messages. So should so i select all files inDVD Decrypter and have it send them to the VIDEO_TS folder and then let IFOedit do all the work of ripping out the extras?

Of course i have tried this,but the program freezes at 0 %.It really is my goal to bring down the bitrate to shrink the movie,but i cant get it to work.I use Xp pro,maybe thats the prob.

When u have some spare time and feel like it please take me by the hand and show me how to do it.

Thanks for replying anyway

@rubber2k1

if u run xp,please try to get ifoedit to run as in win2k mode.U have to have software installed for dvdplaybak on ur system.

And just make it a habit to copy also the video_ts.xxx files to ur harddrive and the mainmovie.0.vob.

I run WinME.

Just joined the forum, but heres how i did it:
Ripped the movie using DVD Decrypter
converted it with DVD2AVI
Re-encoded it with TMPGEnc
Built/Burned it with Spruce-up

Hope its of some use to ya.

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BAHHHH TOOOOO LONG .
I WILL DO U A WORD FILE WHICH I WILL SEND TO YOU OK
ITS QUICK AND EASY AND IT WILL SET U UP GOOD STYLE.
GIVE ME A COUPLE OF DAYS OK...................

Sounds good to me too.Can u send it to me also? my email is slim673**********com

Thanx in advance

sorry but i did start to write it out but it pissed me off.
sorry

i got all my know how and tools from the guides at
www.vcdhelp.com
www.fukrulez.com
www.mpegx.com

this guide is in my opinion the best of them getting around

http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=109346

to do to all properly you'll need CCE and DVDMaestro