LOTR My special edition to one DVDR

[Emo]

Hi i am pretty fluant with my DVDshrink.

The thing is i have LOTR the fellowship of the ring special edition.

There are two CDS How would i gel them to gether to fit on ONE DVDR.
Of course i will be getting rid of all the crap like extra menus etc etc.
Would it do it justice? fitting it on ONE DVDR?

Thank you.

[jimmalenko]

I have accomplished that exact task;

I ripped both discs in their entirety to my HD in folders called Disc1 and Disc2.
I used DVDShrink > Open Files to open the first disc. Open a re-author window. Drag Main movie to re-author window. In main window, open files again and open Disc2. Drag main movie to reauthor window below the first disc's title. I would recommend getting rid of all but 1 audio and doing deep analysis so that you still get decent quality. There may be a slight pause in playback switching from title 1 to title 2 but it is the same as the layer break on a DVD9.

[mikerios]

My sequence for flip DVD or 2 discs DVD sets.

I run DVD Decryptor, ripping both sides movie only to 2 seperate folders ( disc1 and disc 2).
I then run IFO edit on both sets to strip out all, leaving only AC3 and the video stream. I resave them to DISC1IFO and DISC2IFO folders respectivley.

From there I rename the 2nd set of VTS files on DISC2IFO to VTS_01_5.VOB, 6, 7 .. ect..

I then move all the renamed VOBs to the DISC1IFO folder.

I now have 7 to 8 VOB files.
I open up number 4 or 5 ( the last VOB file in DISC1IFO ) in DVD2AVI
I framserve it and it only, the purpose here is to elminate the blank space that is usually at the end of the first disc in a 2 disc set so when I later framserve the entire set there is no blank spot.

I processing the d2v file through TMPEGEnc and load up the DVD Template and set it to 100% on CQ. I render only the video stream.

I then merge the m2v file with the small ac3 file. I rename the mpeg file back to VTS_01_04.VOB, replacing it with the existing one in DISC1IFO folder.

Now I run DVD2AVI again and this time load up all 8 vob files
I then frameserve ( and I end up with one big demuxed ac3 file so no merging of the ac3 files is needed ).

I then load up the D2V file in TMPEGEnc and this time I load up the KDVD template ( from KVCD.NET ) and leave all the settings alone ( though you can set it up to 78 in CQ ). After the M2V file is rendered I merge with the AC3 file and it's off to TMPEGEnc Author it goes for authoring.

You'll find the results are very good ( better than DVD shrink and other prorgrams that have a tough time with really long movies )

[jimmalenko]

Another method is similar to the one mikerios has suggested. I would alter it slightly though.

1. Rip both discs to HD in separate folders - only rip VTS_01_n.VOB files or whatever the main movie VOBS are though. You do not need any other files so don't bother ripping them.
2. Rename disc1 VOBS to VTS_01_00n.VOB (ie VTS_01_1.VOB becomes VTS_01_001.VOB).
3. Rename disc2 VOBS to the next number in the series following on from disc1 (If the last VOB in disc1 is VTS_01_005, then rename the first one in disc2 to VTS_01_006).
4. Copy the VOB Files in disc2 to disc1 folder.
5. Use VOBEdit to open VTS_01_001.VOB. Join the series of VOBs together (this will give you VTS_01_1.VOB onwards).
6. Use IFOEdit to Create VIDEO_TS and VTS_01 IFO and BUP Files. Now you will have the entire movie joined as one titleset.
7. Use DVDShrink to shrink this to fit on one DVDR.

[Emo]

Thank you both very much for taking the time to help me.
I belive i have all the information in this post to complete my mission!
Thanks a lot guys

[wulf109]

You might want to look at DVD2ONE,it's join function makes the transition from disks much faster.

[Gazorgan]

I have done several DVD18's with DVDShrink. Yes, there are a few true DVD18's out there. Let's say that shrinking 3+hours down to a DVDR isn't a great idea. It works, but re-encoding to 1/2D1 works much much better. I'd rather be artifact free at a slighly lower resolution than hi-res with macro-blocks (kinda like 1 disk DivX movies :P )