dvdshrink compression issue

i downloaded the hcencoder as suggested but just left the folder on my desktop. i never did anything with it. what am i supposed to do? and will i need to rerip with dvdfab?

 

It already comes with HC.
When you open Rebuilder, click on the Mode tab. Is HC selected?

 

yes "HC mode"

 

What version of Avisynth do you have installed?

 

apparently i uninstalled avisynth. it was i think the first thing i downloaded after dvd rebuilder and after fab and imgburn thought that about covered it. reinstalled now. should i give the backup another go or is there more to be done?

 

Try it again. It comes with Rebuilder so if you don't have it, it will install it.

 

oh and it's 2.5.8 RC3

also a dvdrebuilder question: i downloaded menushrink as suggestion by one of those guides but am seeing DVDRB has a "steal space from the extras" option. since i want to keep audio/animated menus anyway this seems like the more ideal option than removing the above and keeping the quality of the actual extras. if i select say the 33% option will it automatically do this when i backup or was i supposed to do something to enable this before backing it up with dvdfab?

 

Only on the extras. Not on the menu.

 

so i'm close to a couple hours in and only at about 65%. it's quite the process considering the dvdfab work took i believe around 45 minutes and i'm sure the imgburn should take another 20 min or so i'm assuming? all in all about 5 hours of work compared to the one hour to dvdshrink.

if the quality shows then i won't complain, but i do want to ask again about the dvd5 vs dvd9 rip. i did i believe the dvd9 (whichever takes longer/more space). is there much of a difference between the two and will choosing the smaller one cut the amount of time this takes a good amount? i don't have the most state of the art tv/dvd setup so i feel like i could be wasting time for something i can't appreciate.

 

One program it transcoding and the other is encoding.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You can do both and compare. The real test is when there is a good amount of compression.

 

so is the fact that i ripped dvd9 to be used on a non-dual layer disc going to create a problem?

 

Not at all!

 

[16:07:23] PREPARE/ENCODE/REBUILD completed in 200 min.

ouch. so this should cut down some next time when i rip in dvd5?

and the dvdrebuilder guide doesn't offer instructions to imgburn after you're done with rb. can someone tell me what to do from here then?

 

You're doing it the correct way. Now just burn the new files.
I haven't used the free version in years. I'm not sure if you can burn directly with ImgBurn.

 

so dvdfab rips the actual dvd into a folder.

dvdrebuilder takes that folder and creates a new folder, which is the "destination" folder, the files that are going onto the burned disc.

is that correct? just trying to get a slightly better understanding. and what is the "temp" folder for?

 

thank you thank you guys. twas a success. will definitely be dumping dvdshrink for this.

two last questions however.


in that dvdrb guide under the steal extras section: it says "*CAUTION!!! Don't use this option with "Episode" DVDs!!!"

i assume this is referring to tv dvds, which is mainly what i burn. i was just curious what the problem with this was.

also when burning with imgburn it popped out after reaching 100%, then a alert box came up prompting me to close to push the dvd back in and the it started over again. is there a way to bypass it popping out the first time if i can't be around the computer to push it back in?

 

one more: i'm attempting to burn another and i'm getting this after hitting backup on dvdrb:

advisory: the input directory is already small enough to fit on a dvd-5. no compression is necessary. continue anyway?

what do i to make it back up with no compression then?

 

What would happen is this. Let's say I'm going to make a back up of one of my X-Files DVDs. Now this DVD has 4 episodes on the disk. With the steal extras enabled DVD-RB would steal space from episodes 2,3, and 4 to be used for episode 1. With a Episode DVD, DVD-RB doesn't know that it is stealing from the other episodes. It thinks that it is stealing from the extras just like you wanted. So you would end up with a backup that the first episode looks great and the rest of the episodes suck.


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