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Posted by Jeff on 10/07/05 12:09
Thank you. Very clear and very helpful.
Jeff
"Peter_L" <peter_l@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
news:di5e01$396$1@news.siemens.at...
> Hi
> There is one more important question you need to answer first:
> Should the CDs be playable an a standalone DVD-Player or would it be OK
> that you can only play the CDs on the PC?
>
> In case they should be playable on a standalone DVD Player then you need
> to convert them to either VCD(Video CD) or SVCD(Super Video CD).
> Both will have less quality against DVD. someone already gave you a good
> link at
> www.videohelp.com where you can find guides how to convert DVD to (S)VCD.
>
> In case playing the CDs on a standalone is not required then you even have
> two choices:
> 1.)divide the DVD movie into several parts and burn each part on a single
> CD without doing any further compression.
> This would not make any changes to the quality.
> Someone already told you how you can achieve this:
> "Re-rip the dvd using DVD Decrypter choosing file splitting of no larger
> than
> the size of your cd media, instead of the default 1GB size....problem
> solved."
> By the way, DVD Decrypter will also work with your files that were already
> ripped to the HD with DVDShrink.
>
> 2.)compress the DVD movie that it either fits on a single CD(or two). This
> would decrease the quality.
> ckeck www.videohelp.com for a guide to convert DVD to DivX/Xvid.
>
> Hope that helps
> Peter
>
> "Jeff" <jeff@naol.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:9I91f.7603$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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