For those that need some basic info I have a couple of sites that can help...
I had a bunch of DVDs my little boy is starting to scratch and I know it is only a matter of time until they will be destroyed. I don't feel like replacing them at a cost of 20 bucks....
1) Toy Story I & II
2) Ice Age
3) Monster Inc.
4) Bug's Life
I used DVD decryptor and ifoedit to get the movie (just the movie no menus) with DD 5.1 to a folder that nero would consider a proper DVD Video file to burn....
Average from rip to burn 1x is just over 1 hour....No lose in quality as it is truly the movie minus the other languages, subtitle, menus, and extras.
The beauty is I like the menus being removed as I don't like having him messing with controllers. I like that all he has to hit is one button on the TV to swicth to DVD and then just open dvd tray and play movie and it launches...no menus, previews, etc...
DVD to DVDr Backup that can fit on dvd-5
use the authors options for other then when the movie can fit on 1 dvd-5 (4.7gb disk) already...use enemy withins post (4th one down) to follow how easy I did it. the authors option on the style I did above was far more time consuming and involved more programs in use (some of which may not be available to get anymore)...
2)For ppl who have dvd backups that just the movie is above 4.5-4.7gb then 2 things...If it is sizeably over like Star Wars (another favorite of my sons) It may need to be spanned on 2 disk and can be done wth each disk running about 70 min. If it is close say like a Fast and the Furious where the dvd is just at 4.8gb/s a good program like this DVD2ONE can work great and transcode the bitrate done ever so slightly to get it to fit....
Bottom line is:
Most DVDs from 1996-1998 were not Dual layered and thus most will fit within the 1 dvd-r range...
most recent films need to be 1hr and 40 minutes or less to likely fit on one DVD...
Powerhouse digital movies and long movies (2Hr20min+) like the Star Wars, Minority report, Castaway ( I have checked) are usually 7-8gb for the movie file alone making splitting a good option and possibly transcoding but there may be some slight degradation. i need to try this.
For split DVD-r movies use this guide at
3)For ppl that want to backup long movies with Menus then the Doom9 Site site ...then go to <guides> .... DVD / miniDVD under the DVD backup section....then DVD Backup link....then DVD-9 to 2 DVD+/-Rs with IfoEdit.
I had a bunch of DVDs my little boy is starting to scratch and I know it is only a matter of time until they will be destroyed. I don't feel like replacing them at a cost of 20 bucks....
1) Toy Story I & II
2) Ice Age
3) Monster Inc.
4) Bug's Life
I used DVD decryptor and ifoedit to get the movie (just the movie no menus) with DD 5.1 to a folder that nero would consider a proper DVD Video file to burn....
Average from rip to burn 1x is just over 1 hour....No lose in quality as it is truly the movie minus the other languages, subtitle, menus, and extras.
The beauty is I like the menus being removed as I don't like having him messing with controllers. I like that all he has to hit is one button on the TV to swicth to DVD and then just open dvd tray and play movie and it launches...no menus, previews, etc...
DVD to DVDr Backup that can fit on dvd-5
use the authors options for other then when the movie can fit on 1 dvd-5 (4.7gb disk) already...use enemy withins post (4th one down) to follow how easy I did it. the authors option on the style I did above was far more time consuming and involved more programs in use (some of which may not be available to get anymore)...
2)For ppl who have dvd backups that just the movie is above 4.5-4.7gb then 2 things...If it is sizeably over like Star Wars (another favorite of my sons) It may need to be spanned on 2 disk and can be done wth each disk running about 70 min. If it is close say like a Fast and the Furious where the dvd is just at 4.8gb/s a good program like this DVD2ONE can work great and transcode the bitrate done ever so slightly to get it to fit....
Bottom line is:
Most DVDs from 1996-1998 were not Dual layered and thus most will fit within the 1 dvd-r range...
most recent films need to be 1hr and 40 minutes or less to likely fit on one DVD...
Powerhouse digital movies and long movies (2Hr20min+) like the Star Wars, Minority report, Castaway ( I have checked) are usually 7-8gb for the movie file alone making splitting a good option and possibly transcoding but there may be some slight degradation. i need to try this.
For split DVD-r movies use this guide at
3)For ppl that want to backup long movies with Menus then the Doom9 Site site ...then go to <guides> .... DVD / miniDVD under the DVD backup section....then DVD Backup link....then DVD-9 to 2 DVD+/-Rs with IfoEdit.
