Re-authoring HD-DVD

Hudzy

Hudzy

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I've got a few HD-DVDs and playing them is a bit of a pain, with the lack of mouse support and slow load times in Arcsoft TotalMedia Theatre 3. Blu-rays load fast and with mouse menu support.

So I want to rip them to hard drive and reauthor it to include only the film and select audio tracks. Cutting out the foreign languages, menus, bonus features, etc. Basically everything you can do with DVD Shrink but for HD-DVDs.

Is there software around to do this? I'd prefer to save them as .iso for mounting on virtual drives.
 
They are a pain, some take a good couple of minutes to go from being inserted to being played.

AnyDVD HD might be able to help you here. You might just be able to copy all the files off the disc with that running, then create and iso from that and mount it in a virtual drive for playback.
 
AnyDVD-HD Ripper to rip (NOT the image ripper)
evodemux to rebuild
IMGBurn to create a new ISO

Been a while since I fiddled with HD-DVD but evodemux should do everything. Of course you can also just use MKV if you don't care about Arcsoft, MakeMKV is a handy app.
 
AnyDVD is creating an .iso for me now, but I think it's including everything. It wasn't letting me see any files on the disc, but I'll have a look at editing the .iso when it's finished.

EDIT: Doh. Just spent nearly an hour doing the image ripper.
 
Hudzy said:
AnyDVD is creating an .iso for me now, but I think it's including everything. It wasn't letting me see any files on the disc, but I'll have a look at editing the .iso when it's finished.

EDIT: Doh. Just spent nearly an hour doing the image ripper.
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Don't delete it! Try it first. It's just that with DVD the image ripper doesn't remove the protection fully, whereas the proper ripper cleans things up FixVTS style. You may be okay with HD-DVD.
 
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