I am useing DVD shrink to author a DVD. What I am doing is I am takeing out everything but the movie so I can make it fit on a normal DVD-r without any compression. I made sure and clicked on the no compression option on DVD shrink, but after I am done and hit the Back UP button to have the files written to the folder it saids "Encodeing....". Why is it encodeing if there is supposed to be no compression? Is there any video quality loss in this?

Also, how do I change the source file location on DVD Decryptor to ISO the folder with the video files on the Hard drive? When I try and change the source location it will only list my DVD player path and doesn't give me the option of browseing to one of the harddrives.

Thanks,
-Darin

Moved to the DVD Transcoding forum.

I believe the "Encoding...." message is just standard for any processing it is doing. I don't believe in this circumstance it truely is encoding, just rewriting.

To access from the hard drive simply use "Open Files" rather than "Open Disc".

In trying to use DVD Decryptor to take the video files off of the hard drive and make an ISO and MDS file, I went to the file tab and then to Browse of DVD Decryptor to set the source path to the folder containing the video files but it will only allow me to open up one file- so I don't think that was it. Where else could the option for Open Files be?

Thanks,
-Darin

The "Open files" (actually it's called "Open..." to be precise) option is in DVD Shrink not in DVD Decrypter. You don't need to create an ISO file from the files because you can open the folder in DVD Shrink.
Also, please note that it's DVD Decrypter and not DVD Decryptor.

Oh...ok. My bad. But what I really want to do is use DVD shrink only for the re-authoring. And then, after re-authoring I would like to use DVD Decrypter for takeing all the files and turn them into an ISO and then burning it to DVD+R. Is it possible to use the DVD Decrypter to take the files off of a hard drive rather than a DVD rom to turn them into an ISO?

Thanks,
-Darin

DVD Decrypter can only burn ISO files. You can create an ISO file or burn files with ImgTool Classic/ImgTool Burn. But you can burn directly from DVD Shrink too, either with Nero or with DVD Decrypter.
You know, if you are unsure, it's always good to read a guide first.

Yes...I've been reading many guides. But to be more clear on this, here's what I want....I am tottally in love with the quality I get from DVD Decrypter. I want everything done as much as possible useing only DVD Decrypter. But, of course, DVD Decrypter isn't a DVD authoring program. So, I am useing DVD shrink for only the DVD authoring and nothing else...that includes not wanting to use DVD Shrink to take the newly authored DVD files and makeing an ISO out of them. After the files have been re-authored by DVD Shrink, I would rather DVD Decryptor be used to make an ISO out of them. Here is a step by step procedure what I want to do:

1) Use DVD Decryptor to rip the DVD in File mode.
2) Use DVD Shrink to re-author video files
3) Use DVD Decryptor to take the re-authored files that were made by DVD Shrink and ISO them
4). Use DVD Decryptor to burn the ISO file.

Step number 3 is where I am stuck because I can only get DVD Decrypter to ISO files from a DVD-Rom drive rather than from a hard drive.

I'm afraid that you want to do something which isn't possible. DVD Decrypter can't create isos from files on your hd and on the other hand it isn't likely that your film would fit on a dvd-+r without re-encoding it.

See http://www.doom9.org/mpg/dvdbackup-guides.htm.

A little pedantic I think: the toolbar button is called "Open Files", while the menu item is "Open..."


I really don't see the problem in DVDShrink creating the ISO for you.

Maybe you could do some testing using DVDDecrypter to rip to ISO, and then use DVDShrink to backup to ISO and see if there's any real difference.

As far as I am aware there is no clever processing involved in creating the ISO, it's just like zipping a bunch of files, so I don't believe there is a problem using DVDShrink, Nero, etc. to undertake this relatively simple task.

try to use magiciso to make iso image from DVD-ROM.

http://www.magiciso.com/