Making a "compilation" DVD from other DVDs

[DieselsDen]

I am interested in making a DVD using a few selected scenes or chapters from other DVDs. (Primarily, I want to make a private home theater demo discs using clips of commercial DVDs I own.)

Can anyone tell me what is the best way to do this? How can I rip certain chapters from a DVD to the DVDR without having to rip the whole movie?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Diesel

[g_shocker182]

Rip the movies to your computer and make mpg files out of them with TMPGEnc (using DVD2AVI to make a d2v file). Then use TMPGEnc to cut and join the video as you wish.

[DieselsDen]

I'll try that method. Thanks for the feedback.

Is there a loss of quality going that route, by the way?

Diesel

[Supreme2k]

I think that this discussion will help answer your question, without losing quality.

btw, other authoring software also imports VOBs (TMPGEnc DVD, I think).

[ktnwin]

There is a way to do this while preserving the original quality
Here is how:
a) use SmartRipper to rip one VOB per chapter, select chapters to want to rip
b) import these VOB files in IFOEdit to author a DVD (use the Guide from this site about IFOEdit)

[DieselsDen]

Thanks again for all the help.

However, when I convert a VOB file to MPEG, I lose the audio. Should I have gone through a demuxing or muxing process?

Diesel

[valian]

I tried a couple of programs but IMO DVD author is by far the easiest to use for this sort of work. it imports vob files, just limited in menus unfortunately but I had some luck with importing other menu templates from other programs, ie Pinnacle or MF2 even a motion menu with sound.