Need help with DVDShink and LaFemme Nikita. Has new format

[skunk]

I use DVD Shrink for most of my episode disks and to keep the quality and menu's depending on size (Stargate eqpisodes for example) I check episode 1 and 2 to full, no compression all audio and menus and then check episode 3 and 4 to still frame, no audio. This most always brings the size down to less than the 4.3GB limit. I use the back up DVD into a disc1 dir and then do just the opposite. ep 1 and 2 to still frame no audio and 3 and 4 to no comp, all audio and then backup DVD to disc2 dir. Then of course use Nero or something to burn the discs. This has worked great on many episode disks until La Femme Nikita. They have stuffed everything into one chapter making it impossible to only get two good episodes and still frame the other.

My first solution was to use DVDshrink re-author and put each episode in a different directory in playable dvd format and then use Tmpgenc to create top level menus for 2 episodes and sub-chapters with playable icons and all the othe crap. and then do the same for the other 2 one the disk thus acheiving my 2 hi-quality episodes per disk. But it's just not the same.

Does anybody have an Idea as to how I can keep the orginal menus and background music for the menus and deal with this all episodes in one chapter thing???

[wulf109]

Try CloneDVD,just uncheck the two episodes you don't want.
Most episode disks use a single VTS for the episodes but they must use separate PGC's so that the menus can recognize and play individual episodes.

[skunk]

CloneDVD Good. Did not know that existed. Thanks for the direction. It worked perfectly tearing apart the all chapters in one title thing. Don't know about the cows that eat popcorn while the program is writing though. Don't know why someone would want to see cows eat popcorn. Maybe its to hide the fact from the RIAA that this is a really great program for backing up DVD's with multi-expisodes. Maybe they see the cows and think its a joke.