DVD COPYING
GUIDES -> Copy a DVD9 with DVD2one
This guide is
fairly quick, as both DVD Decrypter and DVD2one are fairly
straight-forward programs. Total time to both rip (using a
fast DVD-ROM) and shrink (with a decent CPU) is often less
than 30 minutes.
This method is only valid on DVD9 discs. See the DVD COPYING
INTRODUCTION guide to learn more about DVD9. This guide
allows you to shrink the content with almost zero visible
differences between the copy and the original. When a disc
is first inserted into DVD Decrypter, it should give a
"GIG"-sized readout as to the size of the disc.
The guide uses the freeware DVD Decrypter, the commercial
program DVD2one (version 1.4 is used in this guide), and your burning application of choice
(Nero or RecordNow are suggested). This process retains
all menus, audio and video, and should be a perfect copy of
the original disc. The process involves 3 steps: 1) Ripping
the DVD, 2) Shrinking the DVD, and 3) Burning the DVD copy. DVD2ONE
is only suggested for source that has high bitrates,
which are most 90 to 120-minute movies. For long movies or
episode discs, DVD Shrink may yield higher quality.
STEP 1:
Rip the DVD with DVD Decrypter
This guide was made with the final release of DVD Decrypter
v3.5.4.0, and older
versions may differ slightly.
Settings.
Install DVD Decrypter and make sure the
settings are correct. It needs to be ripped in FILE mode,
with mastering errors corrected, CSS removed, region
restrictions removed, remove PUO restrictions and read
errors retried. See images:
TOOLS -> SETTINGS to enter the settings menu
Other settings. Set the read error retries to 10
each. Everything else can be left to
defaults. If you have read errors when trying to copy the
disc to your hard drive, consider lowering the read speed to
4x, 2x or even 1x. Maybe try another DVD-ROM or DVD burner.
Ignoring read errors is usually not suggested, but can be
done if retries fail.
Once the program is setup, select all the files in
the main screen. If the SETTINGS are done according to the
images above, all files should be selected by default when a
disc loads.
Decrypt. Select a DESTINATION for your files
(remember where this is), and the click on the DECRYPT
button (which is the DVD with an arrow pointing to the hard
drive). Depending on the speed of your drive, and hoping the
disc is clean and free of errors, a rip can take anywhere
from 10 to 30 minutes on average.
Done. Sit back and wait for ripping to finish.
STEP 2:
Shrink the movie with DVD2ONE
This guide was created with DVD2One version 1.4. While not the newest
version, it's not much different than other versions before
or after it.
Open DVD2one. A splash screen will appear. Click START
PROGRAM. Next the language and font size selection screen will appear. I
am going to leave them at defaults, which is ENGLISH at
about a 14pt font (none of this really matter, it's just how
the program looks while you're using it). Then I will click NEXT.
Select movie folder and shrink. After selecting
language, the main screen appears:
Select the SOURCE where the DVD was ripped and select the
location where the new shrunk DVD will go. I prefer to use
FULL DISK mode, which keeps all the menus and extras. It's a
perfect copy of the original disc, only run through a
transcode to reduce the video bandwidth. It is also wise to
reduce the size of the final file down to 4400 MB, because
the transcode is not always perfect and able to hit a target
file size (and it is not fun to re-run a disc because it was
25MB too large). I also choose CONSTANT RATIO because it
tends to have less noise. Click NEXT.
DVD2One then asks you which audio tracks you want to keep.
In this example, I've only got the one audio track. Removing
unneeded audio tracks saves space on the disc, and equals
less compression.
Click Start. Come back in 15 to 20 minutes. The disc
should be done.
STEP 3:
Burn copy to DVD
Open up your DVD-Video burning application of choice and
burn the final results. Guides for NERO BURNING ROM can be
found on the navigation bar on the left.
Page Last Updated: January 17th
2006
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