Joining a two disc DVD into one DVDR

[Daft]

I have an movie (Seven - Brad Pitt) and it's about 2 hours long in total but is two discs of DVD5 format. Is there a guide somewhere on this site which shows how to join these two discs into one and keep all the menus and extras intact? Please direct me if there is thanks.

[budz]

take a look at the guides to the left<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<


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[Supreme2k]

How are the discs split? Is it movie on one and extras on the other? If so, leave it alone! No sense trying to cram extras and the movie to get crappy quality for both.

Also, there seems to be no way to merge discs and keep the original menus. You'll have to re-author (DVDShrink, maybe?)

[Daft]

The actual movie is split up in two - like 1 hour on one disc and one hour on the other disc with the extras on one as well. I would like to compress the entire movie + the extras onto one disc.

[Faithful Follower]

There is a simple way to do it, but you'll have to leave out the menu.

https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?link=560

[jimmalenko]

Because the two DVDs have different menus it is going to be ugly. For example, from what you have said, on disc 1 there is a basic menu with audio/subtitle setup and scene selection. On disc 2 there is the full menu, with links to extras, scene selection of the main title and audio/subtitle setup options. Please correct me if have got anything wrong here.

In theory, We can take the VOBs of the main movie on disc 1 and join them to the VOBs of the main movie on disc 2 using something like VOBEdit. We would then need to create new IFO and BUP files using IFOEdit. We would then need to run "Get VTS Sectors" across the VIDEO_TS.IFO and BUP files. Then we would need to shrink this to fit one DVDR.

The problem with this would be that the scene selection menu would only contains links to the chapters in the second half of the movie, and if any of those links actually worked, I'd be very surprised because all the links to certain sectors would be up shit creek. As mentioned, this is all in theory and I'm not game to try it because it sounds too hard.

A better way IMO would be to use DVD2One or DVDShrink to join the two sections of the main movie together and have this on one disc on its own (no menu), then make a backup of the second disc but exclude the second part of the main movie. The scene selections menus will not go anywhere and probably lock up your DVD player or come up with invalid navigational errors. The rest of the menus should be fine.

Either way, what you want to do is hard.

[DVD_Ripper]

I haven't tried ISO Buster on a DVD ... But, in theory, couldn't you extract the native MPEG's from the DVD with ISO Buster and use MPEG Video Wizard, or others, to 'stitch' the MPEG's together.

[Baldrick]

is the latest guides section invisible?
https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=640#640

[jimmalenko]

is the latest guides section invisible?
https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=640#640

From that section:

In this guide we will show how to merge two DVD disks which were created when one DVD9 was split into two DVD5 disks.

To be pedantic, this is not the case here Baldrick. Original discs were split already and created when one DVD9 was split into 2 DVD5's. THat guide assumes that the original DVD9 had all the scene selections of everything duplicated when it was split to two discs. Here there are two completely different scne selection menus so I don't think it will work.