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Posted by horeb on 12/01/06 00:14
I get anything up to 2 hours on a single layer DVD.
If the original version is a little less than 2hours 55 seconds then I
always get it the copy on the DVD with or without hidden parts.
Cheers.
Stuart Miller wrote:
> "horeb" <Dietrich.Schuhmann@gmx.de> wrote in message
> news:1164732829.592786.97910@j44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am using a Sony RDR-HX919 DVD recorder. After the movie has been
> > recorded to the hard drive, I/you can edit it. This is in particular
> > helpful to hide advertisement sections. Thereafter I can record
> > (dubbing) the movie to an external DVD disk. Hidden sections are taken
> > out and the total length of the movie is getting shorter.
> >
> > I have now the following problem. On the disk the total movie might
> > have a length of above 2 hours. Taking the advertisement out reduces
> > the length in principle to something shorter, i.e. shorter than 2
> > hours. This should fit to a normal single layer DVD disk (SL-DVD).
> > BUT I cannot record it to the SL-DVD. Although initially the recoder
> > tells me that the length of the movie fits to the SL-DVD it right away
> > stops dubbing, since all of a sudden the disk cannot take the whole
> > movie.
> >
> > I am clueless. Should it work? Should I change (somehow) the state of
> > the movie with the hidden sections into something different, which
> > makes it recordable on SL-DVD? Can I rerecord the movie on the HDD in
> > a way that already all the hidden sections are taken out? New software
> > on the recorder? Anything else?
> >
> > I have the assumption that it will work, if I take the movie apart in
> > the advertisement sections. But I don't want this solution, since I
> > cannot merge them again.
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> In my experience a 2 hour movie will never fit on a single layer dvd. Most
> you can get is about 90 minutes without either
> - a second dvd, or a dual layer dvd
> - some (perhaps not noticeable) reduction in quality
>
> The easiest way to remove menus and ads is to use cloneDVD2 and AnyDVD. I
> make movie only dvd's from the purchased ones, because my grandchildren are
> really hard on them. I am up to copy #4 of the more popular ones.
>
> I do not record movies to the hard drive, I just let the software handle the
> copy. It works with just a dvd writer, or if you have both reader and
> writer.
>
> When you 'rip' a movie the hard drive, there is a change in format. When you
> write it back to a standard dvd (for standard dvd players) there is another
> change in format. It is quite likely that in these changes you have an
> increase in size and a decrease in quality, but I have not tested that.
>
> Stuart
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