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i`ve managed to back-up my `queen- a night at the opera` dvd -audio disc using dvd shrink without compressing anything,tried dvd decrypter but somehow it wouldnt fit on a dvd-r even thought the dvd audio disc is less than 4.4gb, if anyone needs more info on how to backup a dvd-audio disc than let me know!

The reason that dvd decrypter wouldn`t work is that you did it in ISO mode and it was trying to back up the DVD audio and the DVD video (6.7GB in total). DVD shrink will only look at the DVD video, which will contain just the normal audio track (the high resolution DVD Audio track will be in AUDIO_TS).
For this disc (and probably all DVD Audio discs) you could just copy it in file mode with dvd decrypter and then burn the resulting VIDEO_TS with your favourite burning program. But be aware that you will no longer have a proper DVD Audio disc, just a normal DVD.

This item was edited on Thursday, 19th February 2004, 16:35

But be aware that you will no longer have a proper DVD Audio disc, just a normal DVD

thats what i think i`ve ended up with, dvd shrink copied the disc into vobs which i burnt with nero, the result is a dvd disc with everything that the dvd audio disc has on it, whats the difference between my copy and the original dvd audio disc?, i have noticed that my pioneer dv656a dvd audio/video player shows the words `dvd-audio` when i play the original disc but when i play the backup copy it only says `dvd` on the front panel display

As I said in my response - Quote:
DVD shrink will only look at the DVD video, which will contain just the normal audio track (the high resolution DVD Audio track will be in AUDIO_TS).

If you look at the original disc in a DVD Rom/Writer you will see that the AUDIO_TS is 3.36GB and the VIDEO_TS is 3.34GB; once you have copied it the AUDIO_TS (if present) will be empty and the VIDEO_TS will be the same as your original.