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For Battlestar Galactica, see this : http://www.play.com/play247.asp?page...2&title=130876
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Ahhh, love that :D
Was my favorite in the early days :lol:

-kwag

All I can say is OMG! :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:

Thank you so very much SansGrip and for Robot1 in this new version of RB-Opt.

I came home today and burned the backup of one of the Battlestar Galactica DVD's I was rebuilding last night and the quality is awesome!!! :D

The prediction was spot on also filling up my DVD+R 4.7GB to the brim.

Well done on such a great tool and a big thank you to the guys who made DVD-RB.

BTW out of interest is it worth updating to the latest DVD_RB or is version 0.56 better off to stick with?

no more DVDShrink for me. :D :lol:

OMG! I was robbed BSG is half the price I paid on this site. :angryfire: :lol:

This is a good site Boulder thanks for pointing it out for us I think I may buy some DVD's from this site now. :)

Hya Boulder :D
Thanks for the tip.
I'm gonna solve this tomorrow morning, and they better check their stock today :)
Cheers pal

Just check if you have to pay the customs and/or VAT since the company is located at the Jersey islands. I'm able to buy 45 euros worth of stuff at a time as at a VAT rate 22% (varies from country to country) , it would make 9.90e in taxes and the customs make you pay if it goes over 10e.

Hmm :roll:
Thanks.
I'll check that too.
But the price is great :)
Thanks again.
Cheers

Hi Guys,

Just to let you know I backed up another movie using DVD-RB and the new RB-Opt.

The movie was Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Director's Edition. (crap movies as far as Trek goes but im a huge Trekkie and have all the movies. :P)

The movie was 131 minutes long and I kept all of the English Audio tracks in including the director's commentary.

Filesize was just over 4Gb (4,192.4 MB to be exact) and I burned the Audio & Video TS Folders using ImgTool Burn.

The quality is amazing when compared to the original im very impressed with this software.

I shall make a donation to the DVD-RB boys when funds permit as I think they deserve it for making such an excellent freeware tool to back up DVD's.

I shall try and post some screenshots of the original and the backed up version.

Question: Can I grab a screenshot from WinDVD?

Keep up the good work SansGrip along with Robot1 you have done yourself proud. :D

Ok tried this but get stuck at the Prediction.

What i have done so far , backed up the vob's using Dvd Shrink and got rid of the etc's.

The avs script generated does not play at all.

One more thing is the Dvd is 29.97 interlaced , how could i get it back to 23.976 and encode with pulldown.

Read that i have to join the vob's , that part has me lost.

Post it here and tell us what is the error when you try to open it in a media player or in virtualdub.

The tool should handle this automatically, or perhaps you have to select "deinterlace with decomb" in the options.

You have to join the vob ID that correspond to the movie. This is done in RB-OPT. You have a button "join id".

Here is the avs file

Error : Cant open Mpeg2Source

Alrite got the prob, if i use mpeg2dec3.dll it works .

Switching dll's and moving ahead.

I did a test and getting Q factor at 35 for a 3h38m film.

Got this to work , left for encoding , will post the results later.

Hi guys!
What are your setting for the OPV prediction with RB-Opt 0.13?
What min. and max. bitrate do you use for an ordinary DVD-9 to DVD-5 encoding?

I generally use 64-4500 for all my KDVD (using KVCD-Noth matrix anytime, even if that is not what anyone does)

I was using 0-5000 for my KDVD's. :D I might give Phil's settings a go and see what the results are.

@Phil and all

With the other settings is it o.k to leave as default.

Im not talking about the CCE Settings for each VOB I know you have to set DC Precision to 8 & Gop Length to 15 and select Custom matrix for the KVCD notch matrix.

On the main screen where the autosized is ticked underneath there is a slider bar that says reduction mine is at the default 54.29 should it be left there?

For the OPV Prediction my settings are:

Sample Size: 1%

Safety Margain: 2%

GOPs per range: 3

Double Pass: Unticked.

Are these settings o.k?

This is the percentage of reduction that depend on your source length ! 54.29 is the percentage calculated for your actual source to fit it into 4.37 GB. If you change it to 50% for instance, you will have spare room on the DVD at the end. But do not increase it above 54.29 else your target won't fit on a DVD.

I never changed them.

Thanks for clearing that up for me Phil.

I shall leave these settings as they are then. :)

Hi all,

Im finally on DVD 7 of my BSG box set and im trying to back up this last DVD which is the DVD with all the extras in it.

There are three VTS's each some with several VOB-ID's

What I wanted to know is for example is: When you are on the first menu on the extras DVD you are presented with 3 small 5 minute documentaries each have their own link button.

These are: VTS 1 - Vob-ID 1, VTS 2 - Vob-ID 2 and VTS 2- Vob-ID 3

Now I kept these seperate and did not link them seeing as they had their own buttons.

VTS 3 had 8 Vob-ID's as these were the 8 links to the deleted scenes form various episodes. Again I didn't merge these Vobs as each Vob-ID has it's own button link in the DVD Menu.

What im asking is, did I do the correct thing above. The reason I ask is that Phil told me above that merging these could mess up the chaptering and I don't want to do that.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. :)

Correct me if i am wrong,

Dvd RB prepares sources and saves d2v as forced film.

I have selected Decomb as souce is interlaced so it Deinterlaces & encodes with pulldown.

With Dvdrb it's predicting Q factor 37 with bitrate 0-4500.

I tried the same manually with deinterlace script and pulldown and i am getting Q factor at 26 at bitrate 300-5000.

Have used File size at 3750 , ac3 is 530mb.

Length of the movie is 2h45m


P.S - @Dialhot , check DvdlabPro , Beta Version available for demo.It allows to add subtitles , accepts srt files and 2 audio channels.