How do I burn 2 separate Video-TS folders on one DVD

[Motti]

I have so far sucessfully managed to convert my avi´s to DVD using FFmpegX. What I can not figure out is how to get both Video_TS folders (same movie) converted from 2 separate avi (same movie) files on to one DVD. Dumb question I´m sure, if you know your business, but I don´t, so any advice appreciated. B

[Cornucopia]

You can't have to folders named VIDEO_TS on one DVD!

If you try to put one of them as a subfolder in some other folder, it'll never play on anything except software apps that allow you to search for folders (e.g. PowerDVD).

You're going to have to demux back to your elementary streams and re-author, this time including both titles.

Only other possibility--Double-sided DVD (not much better than just having 2 discs really).

Scott

[Motti]

Thank you for your reply. For a total novice this is a bit puzzling. Care to elaborate?

Thank you for your reply. For a total novice this is a bit puzzling. Care to elaborate or put this in layman terms? Motti

[Motti]

Sorry for messing up my previous reply... .

You're going to have to demux back to your elementary streams and re-author, this time including both titles.

Thank you for your reply. For a total novice this is a bit puzzling. Care to elaborate or put this in layman terms? Motti

[Cornucopia]

You've got 2 DVD's (or DVD material in VIDEO_TS folders). These are already edited, encoded, and authored. You need to back up a step and un-author them.

How to do that?

Well, the .VOB files in the VIDEO_TS folder are just like MPEG2 Program Streams ("Super PS" I call 'em), which would be multiplexed (muxed or "woven") combinations of the MPEG2 Video streams and AC3/MP2/PCM Audio streams.
These will have to be de-multiplexed (demuxed or "unwoven") back into their individual video and audio streams ("elementary" streams), or, if your authoring app supports it, standard MPEG2 Program Streams.

Since this is the Mac forum, and I'm not up on the latest OSX authoring utilities, I can't help much here.

Anyway, once they're back in the form of:

Title_1_video.m2v
Title_1_audio.ac3
Title_2_video.m2v
Title_2_audio.pcm (or .wav, or .aif)
Title_3_video.m2v
Title_3_audio.mp2

or in the form of:

Title_1_ps.mpg
Title_2_ps.mpg
Title_3_ps.mpg

You can add them to your usual authoring app.

If this was PC land, I'd say skip all that and take the shortcut of using DVDShrink or DVDRemake, both of which can combine 2 titles (by doing all that stuff behind the scenes automatically).
Do you have VirtualPC?

Scott

[willrob]

If you have DVD2OneX, it has a join feature which will put both VIDEO_TS together, but as one DVD title.

[stanislawski]

Listen to willrob.
That is the easiest way.

[Motti]

Thanks for your replies

DVD2oneX did the trick... However! The DVD played back flawlessly on my Powerbooks DVD drive, but my standalone would not accept it, so I guess it's back to the drawing board

[Spoffo]

One reason for a DVD to play on the Mac but not on a stand-alone is that it was burned as a Mac/PC data disc and not as a UDF format DVD video disk. This is a real easy mistake to make in Toast, since they don't even show the right choice in the "basic" menu.

Make sure you're in the "data" pane of Toast with "advanced" checked. Then select "DVD-ROM (UDF)". Now, if you drag your finished VIDEO_TS folder into the pane and click burn, you'll get a DVD that reads on all players.

[Motti]

Thanks Spoffo. You are right. I tried however to Burn under the Video Tab in the latest Toast version,hooking "DVD from Video_TS" and unchecking "Seamless" in the Join function on DVD2oneX. This worked, but gave me a short break when playing back. Regards, B

[alph]

Just some extra info.

MPEG Streamclip can join mpegs to combine multiple parts of a single movie. (File/open, select all the parts, Fix time codes, Save As OR Convert to MPEG)

And Toast can author 1 or more vob files onto a single DVD with or without a menu. (Provided they are seperate movies)

Cheers,
Alph

[ffooky]

As long as there's sufficient room on a DVD not to require any compression you can rename anything in the second VIDEO_TS folder named VTS_01_* to VTS_02_*, move all the VTS_* files from both folders to a new folder also named VIDEO_TS and run tocgen on that folder to provide new VIDEO_TS.BUP & IFO files.

It's a bit inelegant and I've never tried it with two films that both have a VIDEO_TS.VOB but it works and it's free.