IFO or ISO? (1 Viewer)

[jasonmorriso]

What is peoples preferred method of storing DVDs?

Personally, I like creating ISO images. It keeps everything on the disk, and if anything happens to my original, I can easily create a new one.

But I've seen a lot of threads with people who like extracting the IFO and VOB files, and am wondering why. Do they take less space? Do they load faster? Do people not like using Daemon or Virtual Clone drive?

What is your preferred method, and why did you choose it over the other?

 

[jsimmons]

What is peoples preferred method of storing DVDs?

Personally, I like creating ISO images. It keeps everything on the disk, and if anything happens to my original, I can easily create a new one.

But I've seen a lot of threads with people who like extracting the IFO and VOB files, and am wondering why. Do they take less space? Do they load faster? Do people not like using Daemon or Virtual Clone drive?

What is your preferred method, and why did you choose it over the other?

I rip to VOB/convert to MPG because I don't want to install anything more than absolutely necessary on the system. I'm "old", and I learned a long time ago that the more moving parts you introduce into a process increases the likelihood that something is gonna break, especially if any of those moving parts needs to be swapped out for a new version.

 

[infy]

when I download DVDs (movies etc). I extract to vob. (video_ts, audio_ts, the files as you them on the dvd)

Works just fine

The problem might arise when there is a copy protection in place?

 

[surfermc]

Some people just want the main movie and not all the add-ons, menus etc. They will often rip to ifo / vob instead of having an iso of the whole disk

 

[jsimmons]

Some people just want the main movie and not all the add-ons, menus etc. They will often rip to ifo / vob instead of having an iso of the whole disk

(raises hand)

Since the movie is on the hard drive, it's "old" in terms of the previews, and the menus are nothing but time-wasters, there's really no need for anything but the movie (for me). If there's anything interesting i the "extras", I rip it as a separate item.

 

[gxtracker]

Some people just want the main movie and not all the add-ons, menus etc. They will often rip to ifo / vob instead of having an iso of the whole disk

Exactly.

Keeping the ISO will allow you too keep the movie, all the menus, extra features, different subtitles.

Keeping just the vob files you require will let you piece a dvd together. dont want the menus? rip them out. want the french subtitles but not the english versions? rip them out.

keeping non of the existing files and ripping to MPEG4 or something similar will give you just the movie in just the manner you want to watch it. no extras, just the movie.

I rip all my movies to MPEG4 or some variation too because when it comes to movies, i just want to watch the movie - I doubt i would ever pop a DVD into my HTPC and say "I really want to watch the Braveheart extra features!"

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

I rip all my movies to MPEG4 or some variation too because when it comes to movies, i just want to watch the movie - I doubt i would ever pop a DVD into my HTPC and say "I really want to watch the Braveheart extra features!"

I'm in that camp as well, but with the size of new hard disks, think this has become a bit defunct, except for maybe HD movies, which I compress down to 4gb anyway.

 

[jsimmons]

Well, you can strike everything I've said before about ripping/combining to MPG files. It seems that a merged mpg file simply will not play on my system (I'm running MP 1.01), and I've had to resort to creating an ISO file (with just the movie) to get most movies to play correctly. This is especially disheartening because this means I have to re-rip all 220+ movies I've already ripped over the last two weeks. CRAP!

I've tried playing a merged MPG with MP 1.01, Windows Media Player 11, and VLC, and NONE of them play the movie correctly...

BTW, the paid version of DVDFab lets you rip just the movie to ISO...