Reauthoring/compressing DVDs

FP

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I own the Star Wars DVDs and have watched them on my Toshiba A35 plenty of times with the player's picture mode set to Film and the output set to 1080p/24. The output looks fantastic.

However, I recently started backing up all of my DVDs and noticed when I replay the backups on my player there is a ton of interlacing artifacts and stuttering when played with the same settings as above. They only go away if I change the player settings to Video mode and 1080i output.

I am recompressing the video during ripping in order to fit on a standard single layer DVD-R. My only explaination is that the progressive/interlacing flags on the frames are being wiped out during recompression and the player can't inverse telecine the frames back to 480p/24 before upscaling them to 1080p/24.

Does this sound like a good explanation for the problem?

Mods: I am not sure if "ripping" discussion is allowed. If not, please PM me and I will change to post to remove any gray area discussion.
 

PurdueRy

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What program are you using? Have you tried DVDshrink and removing all the extras from a movie that can fit on a standard DVD without the extra audio tracks(other languages, 2.0, etc and subtitles)? That should maintain the movie exactly as it was on the original disc.

 

Slick5150

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Yeah, if you strip out enough of the extras it still MIGHT need to compress it a little, but not much and should look pretty much like a 1:1 copy.

Unless you're using DL discs then you can just do an exact disc copy.

 

FP

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I am using DVDShrink and unfortunately I can't get it small enough without compressing it. I am guessing the compression is the issue because the source doesn't have the problem.
 

PurdueRy

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Originally posted by: binister
I am using DVDShrink and unfortunately I can't get it small enough without compressing it. I am guessing the compression is the issue because the source doesn't have the problem.

If you go to re-author and just drag over the main title(typically the longest movie file) its too big to fit onto a DVD? That's a pretty big movie...which is it? If I have it I can try it.
 

FP

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Firefly season 1 disc 1

Thanks for your help. I guess I will just have to skip the backups and be extra careful with the movies.
 

PurdueRy

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Originally posted by: binister
Firefly season 1 disc 1

Thanks for your help. I guess I will just have to skip the backups and be extra careful with the movies.

Woah...who woulda guessed that I put that very DVD in my DVD player when I was looking through the steps you needed to do to get just the movie...

EDIT: I just ripped an iso of the disc and it plays just fine on my computer. Haven't tried it on my DVD player yet but everything appears good.
 

tw1164

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Originally posted by: binister
Firefly season 1 disc 1

Thanks for your help. I guess I will just have to skip the backups and be extra careful with the movies.

Can't you just use a Dual layer?