joining two dvd on one

[noor]

copied 7 gb movie on the two 4.7GB dvd+rw with dvd x copy, how can I put it back on one 4.7 GB dvd+rw

[Heartless Angel]

I've yet to try several methods that are in the "guides" to the left of the screen, but the first I can recomend which looks the easiest--to me so far--would be the DVD Shrink guides. Good luck.

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[noor]

dvd shrink guide did not work, pls guide me in detail.

[vance43211]

copy and paste only the main movie vobs to the harddrive in one folder

(name it after the movie) from both disc and rename them

vts_01_1,vts_01_2,vts_01_3,vts_01_4,vts_01_5,vts_0 1_6,vts_01_7, etc.

use ifoedit to create ifo and get vts sectors

then use your burning program

dvd shrink, instant copy, dvd2one, etc.

[Heartless Angel]

use ifoedit to create ifo and get vts sectors

I use Ifoedit v.0.95 and am wondering: When you click the "Get VTS sectors" button, does it rewrite/save over the initial .IFO file you are working with, or do you still need to save? I know it says that it does write-over/save the .IFO file--I think it says that in a popup--but I'm not sure if it really works?

Noor, can't really help you w/your problem. I don't know of any good ways--quality wise--to put 2 discs worth of material onto 1 w/o loss of quality. I'm still learning and the best I've found so far--that works for me--is by reencoding the bitrate to something smaller, but I only get the movie, and have to reauthor. I'm not quite sure how much loss DVD Shrink does for me quite just yet, or of any other progs.

"Man is cruel by nature and there is no truer hell than the world we live in."

[Bob W]

I had posted this method which I use in another thread however I believe it will do what you want so here it is again.

1: Rip both sides with SmartRipper to a single folder (all the files in one folder). Since the main movie on the second side may have VOB files with the same file names as the first side you will first need to put these into another temp folder then re-name them starting where the first side left off then move the files into the combined folder.
2: Delete all the files in the folder except the main VOB files for both sides.
3: Rename all the VOB files in order starting with VTS_01_001 then VTS_01_002 an so on.
4: Use VOBEdit to "Join" the files.
5: Use IFOEdit on the joined files to "create new IFO's".
6: Use IFOEdit to "get VTS sectors" on the files created above.
7: Use DVD2one or DVDshrink to compress the files in step 6 to a VIDEO_TS folder (you create this) so they will fit on a single DVDR.
8: Test the resulting files with PowerDVD or WinDVD prior to burning.
9: Burn The VIDEO_TS folder to DVD.
10: Enjoy.

SmartRipper, VOBEdit, and IFOEdit all all free so look in the tools section to get same. You can get some tips on using VOB and IFO edit here.
http://ifoedit.wh.fr0zen.com/joinclip.html#joindbl...

[vance43211]

Heartless Angel

it automatically saves them for u

if it is already ripped material, u can just copy and paste it

and using just ifoedit is shorter and a simpler way of doing it

i know about 4 or 5 more ways of doing it though

[noor]

after renaming all movie files, when I go for ifoEdit it gives error 'There is no TimeMap table! skipping TimeMap table creation and shuts off.
please help me!

[vance43211]

are u sure u named the vob in order?

[noor]

yes I tried twice by renaming

thanks

[vance43211]

i've only had that happen once

i had accidently name one vob wrong

[nac]

I have tried the vobedit/ifoedit methode but have found that the slow/fast rewind does not work on the second half (the part that I joined with vobedit).

Any ideas?

[mrbass]

how about demux with dvddecrypter the .m2v and .ac3....use tmpgenc dvd author or dvd lab to author them then use dvdshrink to transcode.