New question concerning DVDs

OK, this is a slightly original question, but one worth a solution perhaps.

First off, I have a DVD of a movie. Its a disk that contains both "widescreen" and "Fullscreen"

One disk, both versions.

I want to back up each version separately, to minimize the shrinkage to 4.5g.

I figure, if it can be done, there will be no need for compression. I hope.

The question is, how would one go about separating the files to the appropriate version?

Consider this a question in mechanics or problem solving guys, not theft.

Please do not suggest the obvious and say "Buy 9 gig disks silly"

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You can't. What you'd have to do is rip the movie with DVD fab, so you have a 1:1 copy. Then, open it up in DVD shrink and re-author the parts you want. Bad part is ... that screws up the menus and ... everything, pretty much. (You can repeat it for the other version too)

The easiest alternative is the buy a DVD9. However, Are you sure that both versions are actually separate encodings? And the full screen isn't just a zoomed in version of the widescreen?

Anyway, that's how you do it, but you lose all menu information. There are programs to make menus, but you're really getting into "Not supported by programs" territory. If they are separately encoded you could edit the IFO file, I believe. But that's a bit complicated. You could potentially do the same thing people do when cracking a game ... when it goes to access the undesired feature (fullscreen ... or widescreen ... dependent on the disc) it will either noop ... or play the version you want. This requires editing in a IFO editor ... or maybe some hex manipulation!

I say you check online around places on more information and that, hopefully, this points you in a direction that gives you an answer.
But there's no program I know of that will do this nicely for you.

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Well use the ImTOO DVD Ripper (search ImTOO in Google) and then rip the DVD. Pick the fullscreen version, then the widescreen, and you can pick the extra things too if youd like. It will rip each version into 2-4 portions depending on how long it is. Usually split into 40 minutes appart. Then just burn a DVD of all the portions in the right order for each version and you can have the extras on a different disc if youd like.

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Well thanx to both of you and I will surely look into your suggestions.

If any pan out, I will suggest the results as well.

Thanx again.

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Unfortunately, I received this error message 4 times and gave up.
Sadly ImTOO wasn't the solution.

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Is your imTOO registered. Because I don't think you can rip it without errors without it being registered

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