January 2005
7 posts
Dvd9 to Dvd5, THE Tutorial
As promised, here’s my tutorial on how to do the best (IMHO) backup of your original DVDs, DVD9 to DVD5.
Tutorial is full with pictures so it won’t be just boring text. DVD9 to DVD5, THE Tutorial
I’ll show you how to rip the DVD, get rid of the extras, rebuild the DVD with DVD Rebuilder and CCE, fix VTS sectors, fix the menu and at last how to burn the DVD or make an ISO out...
The Best Way to Backup Dvd
So the question is, how to make a perfect copy of your original DVD so we don’t have to be afraid, that your children/friends/dog/whatever destroy it in some way. In past 2 weeks I have played with different programs with help of which I archieved best way (IMHO) to make a perfect copy of your favorite DVDs.
The Goal:
Make a backup of the DVD
The Rules:
Behold the quality of the main...
Changing PSU Fan
About 2 weeks ago I bought a new CPU fan ( Zalman CNPS-7700 Cu Heatsink & Fan ) and 3 case fans ( Zalman ZM F1 ) to make my box silent ( all those fans are virtually silent (about 20dB) ). After installing all these I was more then happy - nearly silent PC. Why nearly? Cause the only thing that I could hear is the noise produced by my default PSU fan.
So today I took a screwdriver, opened...
Unmatched Style
Not much of a story, but browsing my refer log I just noticed one interesting URI which is Unmatched Style. The idea behind the site is to show people something special out there. You can read more about it here.
And those nice people actually featured my site over there. Makes me kinda proud =)
DvdShrink Guide
If video on your source DVD doesn’t take more then 4.3Gb, you can safely use this guide to re-author it and make your own DVD-R. Basically all you’ll get is main movie, 1 audio track (to save the space) and all subtitles. Quality of the movie will be exactly same as on the source (no compressing used).
It’s kinda fast and very userfriendly. It took me 16mins to rip DVD with DVD...
Dvd9 to Dvd5, Gone in 60 Seconds
So I did tested DVD2SVCD as I’ve said in the previous post and I must admit, I got a veeeeeery good result from my source DVD “Gone in 60 Seconds” (Thanks for lending it, HS).
After compression, I’ve used Bitrate Viewer to determine how good (technically wise) my rip is. Basically, bigger number = better, means more bandwitch is used to display current frame and it means...
The Complete IdiotÂ’s Guide to a good Dvd...
If you’re into backupping your original DVDs (+9Gb) into DVD-R (4.7Gb), consider reading this: http://www.geocities.com/r6d2_stuff/IdiotsGuide/index
Everything very well explained and you can clearly see that author does know what he’s talking about. And… This “guide” should be enough to understand, that 9 passes dvd ripping is just overkill.
I’m currently...