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Dalton
Joined: 26 Mar 2003
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Here's a link for software, reviews and guides to ripping DVDs
DVD Ripping Tools
I use DVD Decrypter which is free. It has ripped everything for me without a hitch since I bought my LG dual layer burners in November of last year.
This link is for burning
DVD Burning Tools
I use DVD Fab which I didn't see on the site anymore. It lets me burn the movie only while eliminating subtitles I don't need and keeping the English subtiles for foreign languages inherent to the movie. It also renders the movie region free. DVD Shrink lets you compress the movie to one disk. DVD Fab does not do that.
Dual layer disks were on sale in Yongsan for just under 20,000 each won last month. They'll be cheaper next year according to Yongsan and Toronto, Canada dealers. They are $18.00 each in Canada now.
Both links are part of the site Videohelp.com. It seems to me unlikely that you'd need any other site for help with all matters related to ripping, burning, authoring or related hardware.
This link has Clone DVD 3.0 and other elegantly cracked software. I tried Clone DVD but it cannot read some inherent subtitles as in it just says 'Undefined' rather than the language. Maybe that's not a problem.
Programz
I have an LG DVD burner and an LG dual layer burner. I use Imation DVD-R disks to burn onto. No problems with those disks yet. P4 2800C with hyperthreading, 1gb ram and an ATI 256 mb video card. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Guys, I want to add a note about NERO.
I loved the program, but the new version 6 has a lot of bugs in it. The recent December updates don't solve everything, either. I'm sure the CD burning is fine, but for authoring your own DVDs, it's got major issues. The video and audio loses sync. It's too bad, because the video quality is really nice.
I hope they work that out.
I like using Roxio a lot, but not for authoring DVDs. Roxio does a nice job burning copies of DVDs when used with DVDShrink. I'm sure Nero does fine with that, too, but Nero is far from ready to call their DVD authoring software bug-free. |
I haven't been having any problems ripping with DVD Shrink and burning with Nero Vision Express (and this goes for both older dvds as well as just-released ones). |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 6:22 am Post subject: |
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Guys, I want to add a note about NERO.
I loved the program, but the new version 6 has a lot of bugs in it. The recent December updates don't solve everything, either. I'm sure the CD burning is fine, but for authoring your own DVDs, it's got major issues. The video and audio loses sync. It's too bad, because the video quality is really nice.
I hope they work that out.
I like using Roxio a lot, but not for authoring DVDs. Roxio does a nice job burning copies of DVDs when used with DVDShrink. I'm sure Nero does fine with that, too, but Nero is far from ready to call their DVD authoring software bug-free. |
I haven't been having any problems ripping with DVD Shrink and burning with Nero Vision Express (and this goes for both older dvds as well as just-released ones). |
By authoring, I mean creating/producing your own DVD with your own video. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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By authoring, I mean creating/producing your own DVD with your own video. |
I understand that and am not disputing your statements, I'm just pointing out that I have experienced no problems with ripping and burning using these programs.
I was replying in part to your message but also a message somewhere in this forum (maybe yours, but I can't remember) where the poster mentioned having problems with DVD Shrink and newer releases- to reiterate, I'm not experiencing any problems (but I don't do any 'authoring', unless you count merging and burning downloaded .avi files and creating menus for them). |
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highland01
Joined: 07 Aug 2004
Location: Tokyo
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Dalton,
Not 100% sure, but I think I saw D/L DVD's in Osaka (over Choesok) for 1000 yen each... might be of help for you if any friends are doing a visa run. We seem to take a shafting on DVD media here in Korea. Picked up 2 spindles of 50 dvd+ 8x media for $38 cdn on my trip home in the fall.
Personally, I opted for a (relatively... 12x) fast single layer in the hopes that by the time the D/L media prices come down, a new technology, like blue laser, will be available.
Have fun burning... whatever your needs!
Jay
[quote="Dalton"]
Dual layer disks were on sale in Yongsan for just under 20,000 each won last month. They'll be cheaper next year according to Yongsan and Toronto, Canada dealers. They are $18.00 each in Canada now. |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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I'm in the US at the moment.
DL DVDs are about $5 each.
Single-layer can be had for 50 cents each if you buy a bulk of 50 Memorex at Wal-Mart. |
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Dalton
Joined: 26 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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I have an LG Super Mult DVD Superwriter (12X speed):
LG GSA 4120B
I bought two-one for each PC I built.
Is this irony? Now that I'm back in Canada I'm much less likely to copy anything. I can see all the movies in the theater and then watch them on pay TV. At that point I have the movie memorized and can wait for them to come on sale after they've been rented for a couple weeks. I can buy the old movies I want for a s little as 2 for $9.00.
In Korea copying movies was important because TV was so bad and creating my own de facto movie channel via copied movies helped me save money, stay on top of English and retain a semblance of sanity myculturewise. Copying software was important too because one can't find English versions with English manuals. Window Washer is about $54 here (retail price at Radio Shack and that's toooooooo  ) but not available at all in Korea in English. Yet it's so vital to keeping a clean PC and preventing the spread of malware.
Anyway I'm happy just the same because I don't think I'd have spent the time or money to build a couple P4 PC's if I'd been in Canada. Yongsan has no equal here. |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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Well, I was going to buy a DL DVD burner while here in the USA on vacation, but decided not to. I can get one for between 50,000 and 140,000 won, but they seem to have a lot of issues burning the new media correctly -- even top names like SONY. The DL disks can make some pretty expensive coasters! Also, the older players have more difficulty with these than single-layer discs.
I'm waiting. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 10:56 pm Post subject: Finally got it |
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I finally got my DVD burner. I ended up getting an LG Super Multi DVD Writer GSA-4163B (dual-layer) at space nine for only 70,000 won. I also picked up a stack of 10 DVD -R for 5,000 won (single layer discs).
Using DVD Shrink as per Derreks suggestion I burned a movie I had on my hard drive and it works perfectly.
Thanks for the great advice.
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Sweet machine SuperHero!! Congrats!! |
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