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Hm well heres a dilemma. I'm trying to find a way to copy some DVDs for my uncle, but I'm having trouble finding ways to do it. I was intending to just copy them directly, but every damn thing I have is dual-layer, and those are way too expensive to copy. So, is there anyway of "ripping the DVDs" to a format that is playable on regular DVD players? I know that XVID movies for example, RARELY work on DVD players. Hmm, I guess what I'm trying to do is put several episodes of a series onto a DVD-R in MPG format, but using only codecs the DVD player will support. Kind of like an SVCD? Is this even possible? To play MPG files (that are supported) on a DVD-R, ON a regular DVD player? (were talking a player, not a computeter one).

If you can, find yourself a copy of Nero's ReEncode. That should rip and resize the double layer'd buggers right down to a nice normal DVDR size.

Neat, thanks.

Old software but absolutely the best candidate for the job. With this free software you can encode in almost any format using any codecs on your computer. Enjoy.

http://www.game-warden.com/dvdx.rar

Just be aware, encoding MPGs takes an @$$load of compute time. I tried it one time but stopped shortly after I started when it started showing the calculated time to somewhere in the 36 hour range.

Do you have a celeron or something? o.O

*Raa hugs his Athlon 2800+ XP with 1 GB RAM*

Takes about 1-2 hours to encode a Xvid or DivX movie for me.

I'm not talking about xvid or divx, I talking about full blown mpeg1 video/audio to use for a VCD.

Can't find anything much on Re-Encode, is it part of a Nero pack or something?

I use the ImToo DVD ripper.. work's a treat. I can email it to you if you like.

That'd be great, thanks.

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To be honest I don't know... erm.. legitimate downloads may prove to answer the question... :shifty:

Thanks Mark, but I don't think that will do the job. I need something that'll compress a dual-layer DVD to single-layer, without actually ripping it to MPEG. Most regular DVD players won't support a "SVCD" or MPEG selection that's on a DVD. Unless I'm missing something... Doh.. Im running outta time

Google for it?

Got one, a proggie called DVD Shrinker. Seems to work good, just takes a while to encode.