Using AnyDVD HD is nothing like AnyDVD ...

[mrpep]

I have been using anydvd for years and I finally bought a bluray drive and expected to do teh same thing but I am having such a hard time figuering it out. Can someone please just give me an idea on how to do this. Any help would be so appreciated.
P.S
why is it that in the user cp tab I cant view my postings like I can in many other foruns sites?

[Adbear]

It's exactly the same as using AnyDVD except you have the option to make an ISO as well for Blu-ray. There is a general guide in 1 of the stickies

[Rusty257]

Did you purchase AnyDVD HD? It works exactly the same as the standard version. just that BRs now work too.

[mrpep]

Well I used to use dvd shrink with anydvd and Icant with anydvd hd it doesnt recognise the disk.. So then I tried to rip the movie and I get not enough space on drive c message but I have over 25g's. SO if I cant rip to my C drive my other option is to a dvd but then I dont think I will have bluray quality so whats the sense. I didnt think Bluray was so large My hard drive is only 74 gigs. I will have to buy another unless I could shrink movies without losing the quality.

[Adbear]

You can't use DVD shrink for Blu-ray discs. At the moment the only way you can shrink down a Blu-ray movie is to make a 'Movie only' disc which is in the FAQ sticky. It's not possible to shrink a Blu-ray and keep the menu's etc.
You can either use the 'Rip to Image' method or 'Rip Video DVD to hard drive' method

[mrpep]

You can't use DVD shrink for Blu-ray discs. At the moment the only way you can shrink down a Blu-ray movie is to make a 'Movie only' disc which is in the FAQ sticky. It's not possible to shrink a Blu-ray and keep the menu's etc

So do I make a copy on a dvd disc? if so wont the quality be crappy? cause I dont have a bluray burner to copy onto another bluray blank disc. I only have dvd burners. plextor to be exact.

[Adbear]

You would have to use the 'movie only' guide to make a disc with just the main movie and audio and then split it into X number of pieces to burn onto individual DVD's, either that or you'd have to find something to shrink the main video file as well (Tmpeg 4 will accept the main movie file)

[mrpep]

Yikes, that doesnt sound good. So what would you recommend? save iso to harddrive? if so soesnt that take alot of room?

[Adbear]

That's what I do, and yes it does talk up a lot of space, it is HD after all

[mrpep]

You would have to use the 'movie only' guide to make a disc with just the main movie and audio and then split it into X number of pieces to burn onto individual DVD's, either that or you'd have to find something to shrink the main video file as well (Tmpeg 4 will accept the main movie file)

I want to make sure that I am understanding you corrcetly, does this mean that one movie will be in multiple dvd's? and if so will these be standard dvd's? and if so will the quality be there? and if so what other software will I need besides the slysoft? I have pdvd and I also have tsmuxer gui (which I am not fimiliar with) I also have nero 6.6.1.4 also roxio. basically I just want to to either back up bluray to a disk if I can still keep the quality and I only have a dvd burner or back it up to my hard drive but it takes alot of space so I would rather back up to my dvd's if I still get the quality.

[Adbear]

You can't shrink it back down to a DVD size and expect to keep the quality, you can either back the whole disc to HD and play it from there, make a movie only image and split it across a number of DVD's (these will not be standard dvd compliant) or make a movie only disc then shrink the video down to fit on 1 DVD but you will lose quality

[talon95]

Yea, the only decent compromise for converting to a single DVD is scaling down to 720p using x264 in an MKV file. This is very similar to what people did when CSS on DVD's was first broken (converting to Xvid in an AVI file).

And just like in the case of converting a DVD to Xvid, the conversion process takes several hours on a modern multi-core machine using somewhat complicated (read novice unfriendly) software. My Core2Duo running at 3.2Gig takes 8-10 hours typically.

[Adbear]

Well as someone already posted before, if you own a copy of Tmpeg 4 xpress it's a lot easier to convert now. Just run it through TSMuxer and make a movie only file with AC3 audio then take that file into Tmpeg and choose mpeg4 output. You'll also want to demux out an audio stream from the origianl disc for later. You can then use the bitrate calculator to determine the bitrate needed to fit on a DVD(allowing for the audio track you demuxed earlier) and whether you want 1080p or 720p as your output. I'd then just make a video file as output, and then merge the AC3 or DTS track you made earlier with the video file in MKVmerge to create a single MKV file with the shrunk video and decent audio

[mrpep]

This sounds so complicated. I will try to save this post even though I do not know how but I will try to figure out how to do this cause at this point I am slightly discouraged. My original plan was to simply buy a terabite hd and save my movies but these movies are like over 25 gigs , arent they?

[DrinkLyeAndDie]

This sounds so complicated. I will try to save this post even though I do not know how but I will try to figure out how to do this cause at this point I am slightly discouraged. My original plan was to simply buy a terabite hd and save my movies but these movies are like over 25 gigs , arent they?

Some are bigger. Yes, they take up space.

AnyDVD HD is functioning as it should. As this thread has moved beyond the purview of AnyDVD HD the should be moved to the Third Party forum. At this time, in order to shrink the output of AnyDVD HD you will have to use third party software.

There is no problem with third party software discussion but any further discussion along these lines will result in the thread being moved since there is no problem with AnyDVD HD.

[Slinger07]

This sounds so complicated. I will try to save this post even though I do not know how but I will try to figure out how to do this cause at this point I am slightly discouraged. My original plan was to simply buy a terabite hd and save my movies but these movies are like over 25 gigs , arent they?

I have a Terabyte HD and you can store MANY full Bluray movies on it, even if they are over 25 gigs. I have a few that are under 25 gigs that can be easily burned to a single BD-RE disc and watched on a HDTV. Many newer releases seem to be over 25gb...even when remuxing to just movie only.

We are all eagerly awaiting Slysoft's release of CloneBD, but that will probably take a little while to program...pretty complicated stuff with the HD's. :bowdown:

[norcimo]

I have a Terabyte HD and you can store MANY full Bluray movies on it, even if they are over 25 gigs. I have a few that are under 25 gigs that can be easily burned to a single BD-RE disc and watched on a HDTV. Many newer releases seem to be over 25gb...even when remuxing to just movie only.

We are all eagerly awaiting Slysoft's release of CloneBD, but that will probably take a little while to program...pretty complicated stuff with the HD's. :bowdown:


I agree with you. And I add one point.. People have no bussiness to complain if you are delving into BD. You need to have NAS or internal hard drives with at least 1terrabyte so that you can get maybe store 35-40 HD movies with original audio track. I use a NAS with 1g net. I stream my video. It works awesome with Windvd9BD. If your going to buy anydvdhd, and you are going to produce a movie that was original @ 1080, and make it a lesser resolution.. you waste your time.. you might as well work with the standard Dvd.. thats my opinion...