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Posted by Peter_L on 10/07/05 09:09
Hi
There is one more important question you need to answer first:
Should the CDs be playable an a standalone DVD-Player or would it be OK that
you can only play the CDs on the PC?
In case they should be playable on a standalone DVD Player then you need to
convert them to either VCD(Video CD) or SVCD(Super Video CD).
Both will have less quality against DVD. someone already gave you a good
link at
www.videohelp.com where you can find guides how to convert DVD to (S)VCD.
In case playing the CDs on a standalone is not required then you even have
two choices:
1.)divide the DVD movie into several parts and burn each part on a single CD
without doing any further compression.
This would not make any changes to the quality.
Someone already told you how you can achieve this:
"Re-rip the dvd using DVD Decrypter choosing file splitting of no larger
than
the size of your cd media, instead of the default 1GB size....problem
solved."
By the way, DVD Decrypter will also work with your files that were already
ripped to the HD with DVDShrink.
2.)compress the DVD movie that it either fits on a single CD(or two). This
would decrease the quality.
ckeck www.videohelp.com for a guide to convert DVD to DivX/Xvid.
Hope that helps
Peter
"Jeff" <jeff@naol.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:9I91f.7603$U%5.6591@lakeread05...
> Hi Peter
>
> I am very new at this which is why I did not know to provide the necessary
> information.
>
> This is a series of technical video lectures on 2 DVDs. They are
> unencrypted. My goal is to transfer them to CDs for my own use and yes
> they should be in playable form.
>
> I backed the 2 DVDs to my HD using DVD shrink 3.2. These 1 GB files are
> playable just fine from my HD but obviously take up a lot of HD space. So
> I would like to transfer them to CDs which I can keep on a shelf and free
> up the HD space for other things. I would like the CDs to be playable too.
>
> When I backed up the DVDs to my HD using DVD Shrink it produced several 1
> Gb files which is where my problems began because these are too large to
> fit onto a CD. Being new at this, I did not know that I could have backed
> the DVDs into smaller HD files. I no longer have the DVDs and though I
> could get them back, it would be a pain to do so. So I am looking for a
> way to transfer these 1 GB files onto CDs in playable form. I do not need
> the menus and extras.
>
> I was not aware that moving the lectures to CDs would reduce the image
> quality. It does not seem to be of lesser quality when I play the
> individual files I backed up to my HD. I think if I could move the files
> to a CD they should remain of equal quality, but what do I know.
>
> Jeff
>
> Peter_L wrote:
>> Hi
>> You did not mention whether the movies on the CD should be playable
>> or not. Converting a DVD to VCD or SVCD will defenitely reduce the
>> quality and you will also loose the menues and extras.
>> Backing up just the files from the DVD to CD will keep everything but
>> you can't play it neither on your dvdplayer nor on your PC.
>> In this case you either need to copy all files back to the HD before
>> you can view the movie on PC or burn a DVD to play it on your
>> DVDplayer. So what do you want to do?
>> Regards
>> Peter
>>
>> "Jeff" <jeff@naol.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
>> news:WDR0f.6707$U%5.4317@lakeread05...
>>> Don't laugh, but I need to transfer a video DVD to CDs. I
>>> successfully backed up the DVD to my HD and now need to transfer the
>>> files to the necessary CDs.
>>>
>>> Problem is that the individual DVD files are too large (1,048,544
>>> KB) to write to individual CDs. Is there a way to get around this?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Jeff Stevens
>>> Email address deliberately false to avoid spam
>>> jeff@stevens.com
>
>
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