Hi all

I want to make backups of a series (the professionals) of DVD\'s. Each DVD has 4 episodes, each of approx 1911 MB. I am quite familiar with the way of making backups of DVD\'s and have already considered putting 2 episodes per DVD, but would prefer to get all 4 onto 1 disc.
If I use DVD Shrink to compress the 4 files, the compression is around 56% ie crap quality. I have worked out a way to do it via Fair Use, TMPGEnc, TMPGEnc DVD Author, then DVD Shrink  but it takes way too long, over 8 hours per DVD. Can anyone suggest a quicker way of doing this?

Many thanks

Using TMPGENC I (and ICDeadPPl I presume) can already make dvds of a quality I am satisfied with that are ~9 hours long.

The problem is not anything to do with quality, the problem is that in order to go from 3 DVDS to 1 DVD that is 9 hrs long, there is a lot of needless conversion going on the way we are doing it.

Right now here\'s the steps:

rip from VOB to VOB (dvd to hard drive): 20 minutes (dvdshrink)
Rename the VOB files as .mpg: 5 minutes
VirtualDub from .mpg to .avi xvid: 4 hours
TMPGENC from .avi back to .mpg (VOB style): 1 hr
DVDAuthor from .mpg to VOB: 30 minutes
Burn: 30 minutes.
(6.5 hrs per 3 hrs, 18ish hrs per 9 hr dvd)

There HAS to be a way to go straight from VOB to TMPGENC without needlessly compressing the movie for 4 hours into an avi file.

Maybe if there is a program similar to dvdshrink that, instead of creating VOB files creates uncompressed MPG files, yet still takes the same approximate 20 minutes as dvdshrink, that could cut out the virtualdub step.

Anyone already figure this out, and yet still inexplicably browsing the forums just waiting to help poor little ppl like me?

Post edited by: halby, at: 2005/10/28 02:01