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TLK914 · 07-06-2005

OK, this is more a FUTURE UPGRADE for a down-the-road update...
DVD-9 discs...I dont usually want all the extra junk, I wanna make a single DVD-R disc with just the movie and maybe the menu, 1 language (ENGLISH), and make it all fit with good video quality.

Not USUALLY a problem...select only the movie file(s), 1 language and 1 set of subtitles...everything else left off, away we go...

EXCEPT...when we get to the SELECT AUDIO section. On SOME movies, you get several versions of the audio, but the manufacturer of the movie lists them generically so that CloneDVD cant really identify them and you may see 3 DOBLY versions in ENglish(SLight text differences only, but any could be "the one".

Damn rude of the manufacturers to make creative backups so much more difficult...

But anyway...TWICE now, I have backed up a movie...(1st was my copy of STRICTLY BALLROOM that my kids used as a frisbee and scratched THE LABEL side to hell, so I backed up before it could quit on me). All went well, I added ONLY the english dolby 2 channel soundtrack...to save space and keep it simple (DTS is so demanding)

I got the DIRECTORS COMMENTARY audio only. Adding the English dolby soundtrack(Or perhaps the 6 channel Dolby) obviously woulda solved my problem...but I had no way of knowing that the 2 channel was only the directors commentary until after the copy was done and my nice blank media was a talkative coaster.

NOW, is it/would it be possible in the future, to have an AUDIO preview similar to the VIDEO preview we get in the movie selection menu, so we can HEAR the audio track we just selected. This was sorta easy in XCopy Platinum, because it played the primary audio track in the previews (But with no fast forward or track bar) and that was always auto-selected. Is there any way for CloneDVD to auto-select the "main" language track in dolby(Dunno if thats possible?) or for us to preview selected tracks so we can decide which one is the one we want/dont want(IE: Make sure we arent getting directors commentary unless thats what we are wanting?)

Thats all...no PROBLEMS to report with it other than my old regret...
Went to try saving a damaged iROBOT this weekend, ANOTHER scratched disc I was saving from my son. It would still PLAY OK(AFter a good cleaning)...every tyme. the audio was bad on 1 track and would cause a skip if dolby was selected. The DTS version sounded/played fine. However the copies wouldnt play (Locked up often, error for unreadable data) regardless of what audio track I told it to use/play. This was of course due to the bad source disc he had left sliding around the table out of its case 1 too many tymes...but the original would PLAY OK on the player, and on the PC...just couldnt make a working copy from it after 4 attempts I gave up...
Id love it if there were some way to make CloneDVD more tolerant/capable with scratched source media. But since its results with GOOD source discs are clearer than its competitors in most areas (Im especially happy with very compressed movies, its pretty clean even at 60%) I suppose thats asking a bit much, more ignoring of defects would mean lower result quality...which nobody wants.

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TLK914 New on Forum Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 26	CloneDVD DVD-9 audio selection issue to DVD-r OK, this is more a FUTURE UPGRADE for a down-the-road update... DVD-9 discs...I dont usually want all the extra junk, I wanna make a single DVD-R disc with just the movie and maybe the menu, 1 language (ENGLISH), and make it all fit with good video quality. Not USUALLY a problem...select only the movie file(s), 1 language and 1 set of subtitles...everything else left off, away we go... EXCEPT...when we get to the SELECT AUDIO section. On SOME movies, you get several versions of the audio, but the manufacturer of the movie lists them generically so that CloneDVD cant really identify them and you may see 3 DOBLY versions in ENglish(SLight text differences only, but any could be "the one". Damn rude of the manufacturers to make creative backups so much more difficult... But anyway...TWICE now, I have backed up a movie...(1st was my copy of STRICTLY BALLROOM that my kids used as a frisbee and scratched THE LABEL side to hell, so I backed up before it could quit on me). All went well, I added ONLY the english dolby 2 channel soundtrack...to save space and keep it simple (DTS is so demanding) I got the DIRECTORS COMMENTARY audio only. Adding the English dolby soundtrack(Or perhaps the 6 channel Dolby) obviously woulda solved my problem...but I had no way of knowing that the 2 channel was only the directors commentary until after the copy was done and my nice blank media was a talkative coaster. NOW, is it/would it be possible in the future, to have an AUDIO preview similar to the VIDEO preview we get in the movie selection menu, so we can HEAR the audio track we just selected. This was sorta easy in XCopy Platinum, because it played the primary audio track in the previews (But with no fast forward or track bar) and that was always auto-selected. Is there any way for CloneDVD to auto-select the "main" language track in dolby(Dunno if thats possible?) or for us to preview selected tracks so we can decide which one is the one we want/dont want(IE: Make sure we arent getting directors commentary unless thats what we are wanting?) Thats all...no PROBLEMS to report with it other than my old regret... Went to try saving a damaged iROBOT this weekend, ANOTHER scratched disc I was saving from my son. It would still PLAY OK(AFter a good cleaning)...every tyme. the audio was bad on 1 track and would cause a skip if dolby was selected. The DTS version sounded/played fine. However the copies wouldnt play (Locked up often, error for unreadable data) regardless of what audio track I told it to use/play. This was of course due to the bad source disc he had left sliding around the table out of its case 1 too many tymes...but the original would PLAY OK on the player, and on the PC...just couldnt make a working copy from it after 4 attempts I gave up... Id love it if there were some way to make CloneDVD more tolerant/capable with scratched source media. But since its results with GOOD source discs are clearer than its competitors in most areas (Im especially happy with very compressed movies, its pretty clean even at 60%) I suppose thats asking a bit much, more ignoring of defects would mean lower result quality...which nobody wants.