[bold]NOTE:[/bold] I don't like the annoying trailers or extra features. I think they're a waste of space. I want to watch a movie so I throw away the rest so I cannot guarantee this method works for the entire disc. A while back I made a copy of Madagascar using only DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink and didn't think anything of it until I saw a post saying these two programs alone can't copy it and also can't copy Narnia. Well, yes they can and here's how: First you need to make sure you have a hard drive formatted to NTFS and [bold]not[/bold] FAT32 because you're going to be making one large file. Load up DVD Decrypter and set the mode to ISO read. Now insert your DVD of Narnia into your drive and once Windows has settled down scanning the disc, make sure the destination drive is set to your NTFS drive. Now rip the disc. If you use file mode it'll read it OK (minus a couple errors regarding missing sectors) but DVD Shrink will complain with an error message and stop. Once the disc has read in you can quit DVD Decrypter and fire up DVD Shrink. From the "File" menu select "Read image file" and from the file requester, locate your ISO file of Narnia and accept. After a couple minutes you'll be presented with the contents of the Narnia DVD in DVD Shrink. This is where I remove all the rubbish I don't want like the foreign subtitles and any extra audio streams by clicking the "Reauthor" button, dragging the film into the left panel, unticking what I don't want and finishing off by encoding then burning the film. I've recently bought and installed a new NEC ND3550A DVD rewriter and it works fine with this writer just as it did with the previous Sony/Liteon DVD rewriter. If for any reason any of you can't get this working then all I can suggest is its your burner. Used: * Working original of Narnia on DVD * DVD Decrypter * DVD Shrink * NTFS formatted hard drive * NEC ND3550A DVD rewriter (firmware not updated) Not used: * FixVTS (never heard of it anyway)
I just started to backup the entire disc of Narnia using the above procedure and have not received any errors.
i only ever do movie only also, however like most ppl i have trouble with quite a few releases with just Shrink (Region 2 here). i rarely use DVD Decrypter, apart from backing up scratched up discs. For anything that Shrink can't handle, i use DVDFab Dedcrypter. Doing movie only does make life a lot easier but there are newer films that DVD Decrypter just cannot do. Period.
this whole Decrypter/ISO read lark was discussed in great depth here - http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/286536 and if i recall correctly Decrypter was proven to not be the be-all and end-all without help from PSL files or whatever
@ZebUK - i'd better close this one as it's already being discussed here - http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/4/321539#1904169
