Episodes from different DVDs onto one DVD

[DeadLily]

If I've used MacTheRipper to pull the VOBs of individual episodes from various, say, Buffy DVDs, and I want to make a single DVD with 4 of those episodes on it, what approach do I take? I tried putting them all into a VIDEO_TS folder, along with a single VIDEO_TS.BUP and VIDEO_TS.IFO file that came with the first disc, but the results were that the player would only acknowledge and play the first episode. I don't need a menu or anything fancy, as long as the player can find them. Preferably keep the chapters, but arranged so that I can skip ahead to the next episode, or that one episode plays after another. Is there a way to make that VIDEO_TS.IFO file from an assortment of other VOBs?

[galactica]

yes. you cant simply just drop the files in a video ts folder and have them be "spec"

instead you need to author the new VIDEO_TS folder.

Sizzle will do this for you nicely, so will toast 6.0

for sizzle just import the whole .vob's in the order you want them to appear and then build your disk image

in toast do the same thing but using the VIDEO tab. One caution toast may tell you that the dvd is too big after all the files are added. your option is to then try sizzle and maybe its not going to be as large, or just make the dvd and then dvd2one it down to 4.4

enjoy

[DeadLily]

Ah, cool. I didn't know that Toast would take a VOB file. Thanks!

[DUDIRENO]

Galactica when you say make the DVD and then DVD2one it down how can you tell toast to do that if it is too big?

I have wanted to try this with other stuff. So I can drag all my files to the Video tab but when it tells me it is to big where do I go from there?

[galactica]

you just choose FILE and SAVE AS DISK IMAGE
instead of clicking burn

your disk image will be whatever size it was over 4.4 gigs

mount, select in dvd2one and off you go