Posted by Jeff on 12/23/39 11:29

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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