What is the best way to backup a DVD-9 with many episodes ?

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  1. viniboson

    viniboson Member

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    I would like to know what is the best way to backup a DVD-9 with many episodes, like 24, Smallville and so on to a DVD-4.
    Is it better to rip every episode in a DVD to DVIX and then burn them into a DVD or just copy the entire DVD ?
    Which option can produce a higher quality ?
    Can those guides in AfterDawn like "Copy a DVD-9 to DVDR with DVDXPlatinum" - http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/dvd9_to_dvdr_with_dvdxplatinum.cfm or "Copy entire DVD-9 movie to a single DVD-R using DVD Shrink" - http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/dvd9_to_dvdr_with_dvd_shrink.cfm
    copy a DVD wihh many episodes or just DVD with a main movie ?

    Regards
     
    viniboson, Jul 9, 2005
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    Quality will be reduced any time one stuffs the content from a dvd9 disk to a dvd5 disk. However, using the deep analysis and quality settings in DVD Shrink, one ends up with a perfectly acceptable backup imho. Yes the guides you mentioned will work, although I personally would use Shrink since it's free. There are also guides here as well: http://home.comcast.net/~bbmayo/guides.htm
    http://www.dvdplusvideo.com/tutorial007.html

    You can also split the episodes apart onto 2 dvds to maintain the original quality, although you will run into possible menu problems. Search this site for info.
     
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