Copying Open Range

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  1. mdmania

    mdmania Member

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    Hi folks,
    I would like to make a back up of my dvd "Open Range", but I get pixilated result. I'm using clone dvd and NEC dvd recorder. This is the only movie that I have problem with so far.

    Thanks!
     
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  2. herbsman

    herbsman Moderator Staff Member

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    If it is a really large movie then maybe think about splitting it over 2 discs (possibly).

    I normally use DVD Decrypter / DVD2One / Nero 6 ['movie-only' way] and don't ever find that anything is pixelated as to spoil viewing.

    I don't have the movie you are actually referring to in this particualr instance , but I've not heard that this is a problem DVD by title (well...as of yet anyway)

    peace
     
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  3. Discmania

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    Herbsman - the reason you don't have the movie is becuase it's not even been released at the cinema yet(!)
     
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    i had no problem at all backing it up. dvddcryptor, dvd2one movie only...beautiful...and the movie has been out for many months in the theaters. mike
     
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  5. Discmania

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    Not in the UK it's not.
     
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    I also had no problems backing this one up. DVD Shrink - movie only - burned at 1x. I picked up my copy on DVD last Friday.
     
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    FROM UK ere n nope not heard anything of that film yet neither
    DaOsT
     
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  8. Discmania

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    I think the movie gets released in UK in a couple of weeks which means the DVD will not be out here for about atleast six months. It's the latest film from director Kevin Costner I believe. With longer movies I use DVDXCopy on to two discs. Whilst I don't necessarily recommend DVDXCopy (certainly not Xpress) it's fine if you don't want to risk any compression.
     
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    herbsman Moderator Staff Member

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    [bold]Open Range:[/bold]
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316356/

    It is 145 minutes , I have done longer films than that using DVD2One (in Variable Compression) and had good video quality !:)

    Maybe it's cos mdmania has a HDTV (?) , where compressed films may look slightly pixelated...

    [Discmania mate: It badly doesnt look like a film I want to be watching , even when it does get released here in U.K - lmao] ! ; )

    peace
     
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  10. dakota00

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    Hi,

    New to the forums here. I just got my DVD burner yesterday (nec nd-2500a) and this is the first movie I tried to copy. I used shrink 3.1 and re-authored to remove menus and audio. Also chopped some of the lead-in and the credits at the end. Used nero6 to burn with memorex 4x dvd-r media. The video quality is terrific, however the Costner audio commentary is on the movie too, making it pretty much un-watchable. I pre-viewed the main movie file before ripping and it wasn't there. Any idea what happened, and what to try to get a good copy?
     
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  11. sly_61019

    sly_61019 Senior member

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    well, what audio streams did you keep? Ac3 6-ch should have been the only one.
     
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    OK that must be it. I kept the AC3 1-ch stream because with the 5.1 stream the movie size was being reported as 8+ GB in Shrink. I will get a hold of some DVD-RW disks and play with it, thanks for the help!

    edit: That did the trick. The movie burned perfectly at about 91% compression.
     
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    Dolby 5.1 is one of the things that makes DVD's worth having. Dropping a huge DTS file, if it exists makes sense, and any 2 channel tracks, but never Dolby 5.1.
     
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