DVD X Copy Plantinum

Flip, the reason I need to split disks, is if I copy a large dvd, e.g TV series episodes of about 7.5 gig, I find the last couple of episodes are very poor quality. I suspect Platinum interprets these as "extras" and uses greater compression. I have experienced this on several disks of TV series. I have noticed the Extras of movie disks are very low quality also, which doesn't bother me.

 

Yes of course Flip, I have a dvd rom drive and a burner so I always use both drives, leaving the source disk in at all times.

 

Yes, I have realised that far too late. I don't understand why episodic dvd's are different. I tried decrypter then burnt with Platinum RF, seems to work ok.

 

My main problem with splitting with Platinum is that I have problems figuring out what chapters need to be on what disc.

For example, City of God DVD...The movie is Titleset 1, however, when I burn that titleset to the disc, I can get as far as the main menu page, but the disc freezes when I press play. I can even access the scene select screen...but thats about it...

 

PumPum

I finally stopped using Platinum, and am now using Shrink and Decrypter exclusively. They are very easy to use, and I have NEVER had a problem with them, unlike Platinum. There is a sort of tutorial on this site somewhere to get you started.

Oh, and Shrink now supports dual-layered burners, so I never worry about compression, although I usually take out any language other than English.

HTH,

Rich

 

I must admit Shrink and Decrypter are good although it involves two processes and uses a lot of hard disk space, as well as taking longer. For straight movie copies Xcopy is still good, as it doesn't require hard disk space and is simpler and faster.
For episodic dvd's such as tv series etc, Decrypter and Shrink is definitely better.

 

Dual Layer disks are still way too expensive and they don't have a rewriteable format yet. I have a dual layer burner but at $aud12-14 a disk seems unviable from my point of view whne single layer disks are down to around 70 cents each.

 

nosmarbad

I hate the nag screen Xcopy produces, that's one of the reasons I don't use it any longer, plus Shrink gives many options prior to burning. It's been so long that I have used Xcopy I don't remember how long it takes to burn a DVD, but with Shrink it takes me about 35 minutes to burn a DVD, and I have a DVD-Rom, plus a burner, so it is almost hands free.

I bought dual-layer from Meritline.com for $3.75US for 2 disks.

 

I agree the nag screen is annoying. Platinum can take less than hour depending on the length ov movie.
I find decrypter and shrink is much slower, and two separate processes. Shrink also doesn't copy without decrypter first does it?
That's a great price on the dual layer disk, in Australia we can't get them anywhere near that price.

 

that meritline link doesn't work

 

flip218

Yes that is the link, and the ones I bought, although I bought several, and so far they have worked fine for me.

Why do you say the link does not work, I actually used your link, and it worked for me?

 

nosmarbad,

Shrink can also work with the correct version of Nero, however, I have never used it that way. I use Decrypter, and it is seamless. You just tell Shrink to use Decrypter, and Viola, it does it.....couldn't be simpler.

 

flip218

What an idiot I am, you are correct!!!!! I had better go check what I have burned, they are probably screwed.

Thanks, I am so embarrassed.

 

HA HA FLIP, I just spent several minutes at meritline, I couldn't find them that cheap.
As I said dual layer still far too expensive.

 

sytyguy, are you saying you can setup shrink to automatically use decrypter? So it is only one process? You would still need disk sapce though i assume? I must admit some of the options in shrink are a bit confusing. Also, sometimes I have had shrink freeze during a burn, fortunately i always use rw disks first.