Help on authoring DVD with multiple movies/titles

[Varmit]

My first question post so go easy on me....

I am currently working on backing up my valued "Band of Brothers" dvds and have run into a problem. I have used DVD Shrink to reauthor and pull out just the 2 episodes... i dont' care to keep the menus or extras. I have authored each episode individually so I have to folders with 1 episode (VOBs and IFOs) in each. I want to author a simple menu system/dvd that lets me choose which episode to play and will return back to main menu when episode is over. I own TMPGENC DVD Author and it seems like it will work but when title 1 is over it automatically starts playing title2 which I don't want. The good part about TMPGENC DVD Author is it lets me do chapters really easily but I'd give that up to have a nice simple working solution. Any help out here? Would Ifoedit let me edit the generated menu to make sure it returns to main menu after playing each title/movie?

My next project is to take a bunch of old VHS videos of my high school wrestling matches and football games and put on DVD so returning to the menu after each movie/title would come in real helpfull.

Thanks!

[Jolard]

I have not tried TMPGEnc DVD author, but most medium level and up applications will let you set the movie end behavior, so you can get it to either play the next one or return to the menu.

If you can't get that to work, or there is no option in that app, then I recommend DVD-lab. It has a 30 day trial so give it a go. On the connections tab it allows you to set the end behavior through dragging and dropping connection arrows. Very simple.

Other apps that I know can do this, DVD-It and DVD Maestro, although these are either very expensive or not easily available.

[Megahurts]

Varmit

TMPGEnc DVD Author, in Source setup, put the second episode in a new track (Add new track).

That should do it.

Chas

[Varmit]

Yep..seems to work just fine.. hmm.. thought I'd done that before with same results... oh well..whatever works..thankS!