Does anyone still have their very first DVD backup?

For me it was sometime late in 2001, Nandub and SBC using good old Divx 3.11. I actually screwed up the resolution and had to resize using a player to get the aspect ration correct. Apart from that the quality wasnt great. ;) 2hr 30mins film on 1CD :) Opps, things have progressed somewhat since then! Ivan

I just finally made my first authored DVD! (with a menu) a couple of days ago :) Seeing as the sources for each of the 6 titles were in different formats - *.mov , *.wmv , *.avi , *.mpg it took a while, because I wanted to do it right for a family friend. I benefitted from advice on Doom9 and numerous programs along the way, like: Avisynth, Virtualdub, QUEnc, BeSweet, Audacity, GSpot, MediaInfo, DVDAuthorGUI , God thank all the people who made these programs and all the helpful Doom9 contributers. Thanks so much guys.

My first backup were "The Fugitive" (good movie btw). I did a manual VCD-rip, meaning ripped with some obsolete ripper, made a DVD2AVI project, frameserved with Virtualdub in order to get subtitles (i struggled a long time with this. I thought that you just started the frameserver and then quit Virtualdub. Couldn't understand why the subtitles weren't there :D) and then encoded with TMPGenc to PAL VCD. It looked bloody awful, worse than most VHS-tapes. I threw away most of them, some even had a wrong aspect ratio, so everything were all stretched :D I always forgot the AR options ins TMPGenc :)

My first backup was Matrix - I did a VCD rip but I can't remember the programs I was using. My first Divx backup was "Das Boot" directors cut. I used FlaskMPEG with Divx 3.11 low motion (fixed bitrate @ around 700kbit) and Windows Media Audio @64kbit. Of course it looked awful, but back then I was quite impressed :rolleyes:

I backed up Finding Nemo that was on VideoCD to a NSV file with VP3 and MP3. Got it down to around 300 MB, with pretty good quality at the time!