fit more then 1 movie on a dvd disc

[RAB1969]

after using cucsoft + ifo edit or dvdshrink to convert my films to vob files
i can only fit 1 movie on a dvd disc , when i goto burn them with nero it says files exist or overwrite exisiting files Im lookin 4 away to get 2 films maybe 3 on a disc menu`s would be a bonus thx for any help..........

[steveryan]

I'm guessing you are talking about ripping your dvd's here? You would be able to get 2 x 1 1/2 hour films onto a single dvd but the quality wouldn't be great, forget 3 as it would look terrible (to my eyes anyway) and forget the menu's, you would have to make your own. What I would do is this - rip your films to hard drive, open DVD Shrink and hit open file and open your first film and drag it into the re-author window. Then hit full disc and select open files again and open your second film, now hit re-author and drag your second film across to the re-author window. Hit backup and burn the folders DVD Shrink creates. If you must put three films onto one disc you may have to shrink the files twice to get them to the correct size. Hope this makes sense.

[edsmith77]

Rad1969,
Steve had a good proces to get you 'n' number of films onto one dvd. But I must take exception to the no menus statement. In my experience I found this not to be true.
If I understood you correctly that you would like to have a menu in order to select which one of the 'N' movies you would like to view and yet still have all 'N' fit on one dvd. Yes, that can be done, cause I have several DVDs with 3 movies on them. But I started with vcd/xvcd mpegs. But the process is nearly the same and fairly straight forward.
As I see it, first is to rip the files to your hard disk. Then load up into DVDShrink and then reauthor by setting the compression 'size' to 1/N of the dvd size. Repeat for movies 2 thru N. Then fire up DVD Author and load each movie in as "separate tracks." Select your menu background, sit back and wait while DVD Author does its thing. OBTW you can even have chapter points if you like but you need to put them in before you committ DVD Author to its final run. You can even have DVD Author burn the DVD if you like.
You should have a disc that will present a menu for you to chose which movie to watch via your dvd remote. Or you can just press play and watch all N or however many you put on the DVD. Yes, you can even select the desired chapter point for each movie as well.
A word of caution before committing to a final disc, you should preview the DVD Shrink outputs to make sure that you have not compressed it so much that it has lost its' nice DVD qualities. Depending upon the length of the movie, you may not be able to get all that you like to a disc without "selling out" on quality. The choice is yours.

Ed