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Thread ID: 114649	2010-12-11 23:29:00	Converting DVD to AVI	Finackles (15646)	Press F1

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1160840	2010-12-14 21:48:00	Yeah DVDShrink sounds like it'll do what you want, trimming out all the excess guff and leaving you with just the streams that you want :)	Chilling_Silence (9)
1160841	2010-12-14 22:04:00	Okay, Chilling has turned my old ID on, thanks dude. My re-run of AutoGK on the copy of the DVD has produced no sound, just like the original. This copy, I may say, plays fine in all three languages on a Sony Blu-ray player. I think my only solution is to find another version of this disk, I may go looking around the video stores. Note: I know I could try to download it, but last I looked the torrents are like 18Gb for a whole season or more and I only need four episodes. Worse, they have like no seeds and four leechers.	robo (205)
1160842	2010-12-15 01:35:00	DVD shrink is pretty good for this sort of thing. If you preview the video in the little window at bottom left you can right click on the picture and select a soundtrack to play. This lets you check you have the right soundtrack and not a commentary or foreign language. Then you can go into compression settings and unselect all but the correct soundtrack. Using it in reauthor mode and only selecting the episode you want makes it easy to seperate shows but on some disk structures can take a bit of experimenting to find the right file.	dugimodo (138)
1160843	2010-12-15 18:51:00	Final update for this thread. I have successfully achieved what I wanted, by renting different prints of the disks. I had to rent two disks to get all four episodes, but I have successfully created AVIs with audio finally. This has taken attempts with three different programs in numerous different iterations. It seems that perhaps some disks are just undoable. Thanks everyone for your input. One thing about DVD Shrink. Why the heck do they make it so hard to download? It's like an IQ test, and I failed it completely.	robo (205)
1160844	2010-12-15 19:07:00	One thing about DVD Shrink. Why the heck do they make it so hard to download? It's like an IQ test, and I failed it completely. Depends on where you select to downlaod it from. Just did a quick Google Search (www.google.co.nz) -- Went down to Afterdawn or file hippo, and there is.	wainuitech (129)
1160845	2010-12-15 19:26:00	Coz the main site went bust a few years back. MrBass has it along with a super How-To	Chilling_Silence (9)
1160846	2010-12-16 00:50:00	DVD shrink didn't exactly go bust, Nero purchased rights to it and turned it into nero recode. As part of the deal DVD shrink is no longer supported or developed. At least that's the way I heard it. Nero recode has continued to be devloped so it now has superior speed and quality over shrink but being a commercial product naturally it does not have the ability to rip protected DVD's that shrink has. All of which is moot if you are converting to AVI because you should not be compressing the original at all in the ripping stage.	dugimodo (138)
1160847	2010-12-16 01:09:00	Not entirely true: en.wikipedia.org A nice story nonetheless ;)	Chilling_Silence (9)
1160848	2010-12-19 23:21:00	Hmm, it seemed I lied. I haven't finished posting on this thread. Found another disk, although this time one episode on a disc. Other episode is fine. Copied image to HD, winX dvd crashes on the original, the disk copy, the DVD copy, and HD copy made with DVD Shrink. Did it twice, once with no shrink, once with shrink. AutoGK loses sound. Any suggestions for a method of "cleaning" a DVD where it plays hard to get?	robo (205)
1160849	2010-12-19 23:25:00	Cleaning will only work if the disc is scratched or dirty. I clean mine with water, and a tissue (wiping outwards from the inside, don't go in circles, I don't know why, but everyone says that) For bad scratches you can use a polishing machine, some people claim that toothpaste can help for some scratching.	Agent_24 (57)
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