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Backup your DVD movies to DVD-R (Not too tough!)
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NEW! Even easier method: Use the freeware
program "DVD Shrink 2.3" available
from doom9.org. This program gives
a simple method to backup a DVD to a single DVD-R disk with minimal loss of
quality. Works on tough titles like "Die Another Day" too, where
IFOEDIT fails... You will still need DVD Decrypter or something to
burn the output to a DVD-R disk, but otherwise this is an all-in-one
solution. To spit a DVD to 2 DVD-R disks (with no loss of quality), I
still use the method below:
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You need the following (free) software:
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IFOEDIT and the IFOEDIT image making tool
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DVD Decrypter
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These are the steps:
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Run DVD Decrypter. Select file
mode. Highlight all files and hit the button to copy the
entire DVD to your hard drive. (Unless the DVD is only single
layer, then things are even easier! Select ISO read mode and
save the ISO file [should be small enough to fit onto one DVD-R].
Then select ISO write mode and burn the DVD. That's it!)
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Now, most movies are too big for a single DVD-R
disk. So, we have to split the DVD in two using IFOEDIT.
See www.doom9.org for details.
Basically open the IFO file for the main movie, push the "VOB
tools" button and "Split to 2 DVD".
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Now, copy the other files (besides the main movie
files that IFOEDIT creates) onto both movie folders. You must
at least have all the files whose name ends with "_0.BUP", "_0.IFO",
and "_0.VOB". The rest you can leave off, if you want.
Make sure the total size of each folder is less than about 4.5GB (as
reported by explorer) or it might not fit on the DVD-R.
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Next, run IFOEDIT, open the video_ts.ifo file,
change the number of chapters to the correct value, push the
"region free" and "remove p-ups" buttons, save,
open it again, push the "get vts sectors" button.
(Tip: If you look on the doom9 site you will find a way to
make the second disk [or any disk?] play immediately upon insertion. [Need to
jump to title 1 in the first pre-command for the MVGM_MAT First Play
PGC])
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Now, use the IFOEDIT image tool to create disk
images.
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Finally, use DVD
Decrypter to burn the disk
images.
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If this process fails, use DvdShrink (mentioned
above) to reauthor the movie and then split the reauthored movie.
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Backup your DVD movies to CD (in 1 easy and 2 difficult steps)!
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Step 1 (easy): Copy/Backup your DVD disk to your
hard drive. You can play movies from the hard drive, but they take
up 4 to 7 GB and you need special hardware to see the movie on a TV.
See above for how to do this.
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Step 2 (difficult): Compress the movie using DivX.
After this step the movie will fit on 2 (or 3) CD's with a quality near
to the original. FlaskMPEG is a good program for this.
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Step 3 (difficult): Convert the DivX CD's into
XVCD's (XVCD = eXtended VideoCD). These will play in many (but not
all) DVD players with a quality somewhere between DVD and VHS
tape! Thus, a reasonable backup copy of your DVD is complete.
TMPGenc is a good program for this. Good Luck, these last 2 steps
are difficult.
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Last updated:
Saturday, August 17, 2019
