Burning DVD Movie to TWO DVD-Rs

[kamikaze]

Hello

Just wondering, after most DVDs have been stripped of all the extra features, subtitles, etc. and only the movie itself is left, are they usually bigger than one 4.7GB DVD? I REALLY don't want to lose any picture quality on my movies, so i was wondering if there's a way to split the movie onto TWO DVD-Rs. This way, I could keep the quality of the movie...I'm not too concerned about having to switch DVDs halfway through the movie.

Of course, if anyone knows how to split a movie with ALL of the features, subtitles, etc. onto 2 DVD-Rs, that'd be even cooler.

Is anyone else doing this? I'd like to be able to skip the DVD2OneX step and just cut the movie into two halves.

Any help is appreciated!
Thanks in advance

-kamikaze

[galactica]

Hello

Just wondering, after most DVDs have been stripped of all the extra features, subtitles, etc. and only the movie itself is left, are they usually bigger than one 4.7GB DVD? I REALLY don't want to lose any picture quality on my movies, so i was wondering if there's a way to split the movie onto TWO DVD-Rs. This way, I could keep the quality of the movie...I'm not too concerned about having to switch DVDs halfway through the movie.

Of course, if anyone knows how to split a movie with ALL of the features, subtitles, etc. onto 2 DVD-Rs, that'd be even cooler.

Is anyone else doing this? I'd like to be able to skip the DVD2OneX step and just cut the movie into two halves.

Any help is appreciated!
Thanks in advance

-kamikaze

Its an application called DisComVobulator. essentially it splits a dvd in half so it fits directly onto two dvd-r

heres the link
http://homepage.mac.com/chris.long/DiscoPlus-v1.21.dmg.bz2

Like DVD2ONE its not free, but it does just what you want, just like DVD2one does for 1dvd to 1dvd copy.

Enjoy

[WiseWeasel]

Unfortunately, it (DiscomVOBulator) has quite a high failure rate, subs often turn out messed up (like wrong color or something), and you lose all extra tracks and menus. An alternative is to use VOBSplit or IFOEdit in VirtualPC, or if you have the time, dedication and $$$ (or good Mac warezing skills), you can use DVDSP to master 2 DVDs with menus and all the tracks you want from streams extracted with OSEx in elementary stream mode w/ half the chapters selected at a time, or DVD Extractor (for OS9) in scene mode with half the scenes selected and 'demux streams' and 'merge selected' enabled.

[kamikaze]

I only want the movie. I dont want any subtitles or menus, extra features. So if I'm only getting the movie, using DiscomVobulator shouldn't be a problem right? Of course, I still get the 5.1 Dolby and DTS when i take the movie track, right? Would having the surround increase the file size significantly or no?

TIA

-kami

[WiseWeasel]

Yeah, you should be able to keep all sound tracks. Not sure how it handles DTS audio, but there's only one way to find out (short of reading the manual of course). The main problem is the high failure rate, and many movies will not work, leaving you no option but to do it manually as described above, or use some PC software in VirtualPC.

[misohonae]

Hi

You start your question by saying: "Just wondering, after most DVDs have been stripped of all the extra features, subtitles, etc. and only the movie itself is left, are they usually bigger than one 4.7GB DVD?"

Now - that makes me wonder: have you tried it already?
Have you already seen a DVD that has been shrunk?

When I compare my original movie with the backup movie....
Really, I see no difference at all - everytime I watch a backup I'm amazed by its quality!

You already win a lot by throwing away extra AC3 channels and stuff.
And if you really want to hold on to the choice of 5.1 or DTS I would choose to make one DVD with 5.1 and the other with DTS only.

Just a suggestion

[galactica]

Hi

You start your question by saying: "Just wondering, after most DVDs have been stripped of all the extra features, subtitles, etc. and only the movie itself is left, are they usually bigger than one 4.7GB DVD?"

Now - that makes me wonder: have you tried it already?
Have you already seen a DVD that has been shrunk?

When I compare my original movie with the backup movie....
Really, I see no difference at all - everytime I watch a backup I'm amazed by its quality!

You already win a lot by throwing away extra AC3 channels and stuff.
And if you really want to hold on to the choice of 5.1 or DTS I would choose to make one DVD with 5.1 and the other with DTS only.

Just a suggestion

I would have to agree here. I back up a movie and its roughly say 7gigs (depends on the movie here). so i select just the .vob files that correspond to the actual movie, they are maybe 5 gigs (dont have the exact numbers for this post) but were talking really close to 4.4 gigs if you were just to pull the movie .vob's directly out of the backuped files.

Thats the beauty of the MOVIE ONLY copy of dvd2one, it just ignores the other .vobs whihc are menu's extras and other video related items of the dvd. So when you use dvd2one you are just making around 5gigs 4.4 gigs so the loss in quality of a movie only copy is hardly anything!

Yes, if you did a disk copy and then play both the commercial dvd and your dvd-r on a 52 inch plasma or projection screen tv you will see why everyone is saying disk copy has more loss in video quality!

Try that with a video only copy and just compare the movie file quality, it becomes even harder. Yes, its some, but were talking only noticable if you watch it on a high definition huge tv (or something like a 23" cinema display where even some commercial dvd's dont look so "clear and sharp"

Id say do this test for yourself. Turn on yoru tv, play the commercial dvd. watch it for a bit. Do both a movie copy and a disk copy so you can see what sort of loss you are experiencing.

if its like me, with a standard non HD tv, you wont even see much loss with the disk copy mode.