Removing Trailers from dvd while keeping menu's without re-authoring

[sohaibrazzaq]

Hi,
I have an Indian Songs DVD which i listen very frequently and the disc has become quite old, so i was thinking to backup it on a dual layer DVD+R.
I want to take off the first play video which are some annoying trailers off from the DVD, bad thing is that they are over 3 minutes long and the authors of the dvd have forced them to display, i.e. that i can't skip them, can't fast forward them or jump to menu etc and whenever i put the dvd in my player i have to watch that annoying trailer which is pain in ----.
I have copied the whole "VIDEO_TS" folder to my hdd and figured out that these annoying trailers are residing in a file called "VTS_01_0.VOB".So i removed that file from the video_ts folder, although doing this succesfully removed those trailers but all menu's also disappeared which i don't want to and now putting the dvd in the player directly starts the movie . Now this means that menu's are also in the same file so just removing it is'nt a good idea, so i think i have to re-edit the file in some special manner so the trailers disappear while the menu's remain with full functionality without re-authoring the whole DVD, is there any tool which can do it?
Please i need some help to get those trailers off from my dvd.

Thanks,
Sohaib

[SingSing]

Use ripit4me, and select "menu+movie".

[sohaibrazzaq]

Thanks for the fast input, i will try and and will post results
Hope it works

[normcar]

Assuming that this DVD is authored like any other DVD. I would use RipIt4Me like SingSong said. Then use VOBBlanker to remove the parts you don't like. VobBlanker will replace the video you chose with a blank. This allows buttons to continue to work, but they do nothing since the blank screen it shows is so short, you don't actually see it.

I don't konw if you really want to use a DL DVD. They are expensive, more difficult to create, and have more problems in standalone players than SL DVDRs do. You can use VOBBlanker to split the DVD into 2 parts. Blank the 1st half, burn it to the first DVDR, then blank the 2nd half and burn that the another DVDR.

Then use a program like imgburn 2 to burn the DVD.

[sohaibrazzaq]

Just find out that i have to install a new tool called dvd decrypter to use this tool, is it necessary?
The DVD that i am trying to backup don't have any kind of encryption, neither it is region coded

[SingSing]

Yes, you need it. It is the tool that do the "menu+movie".

[normcar]

You can also use DVDShrink after VOBBlanker to shrink the video to fit on a single DVDR. Using VOBBlanker to get rid of everything before using DVDShrink will allow you to shrink as little as possible, while retaining as much quality as possible.

[VegasBud]

sohaibrazzaq,

Since you're going to burn the backup to a DL disk, another alternative would be to use the "Jump to PGC Upon DVD Insert" function in PgcEdit to just skip over the annoying part and jump right to the menu. Here's a guide on how you would do it. The guide may look intimidating, but that's only because it covers any circumstance that might come up. The process is really quite simple for 99.999999% of DVDs.

[sohaibrazzaq]

I have done it with VobBlanker, no need for ripit4me because i already had copied the VIDEO_TS folder to my hdd, removed the annoying part and burned it into two DVD+R's using CloneDVD because normcar said that players may encounter problems reading Dual Layer DVD+R's, both DVD's played fine both on PC and player and just as i wanted , thanks for all of the wise inputs.

@normcar
The total length of the video is little more then 4 hours so its not good to fit it on a single layer DVD-R, i was thinking of it but CloneDVD was showing 57% of the quality which is too much, two DVD's are better but only pain now is swaping of discs.
Thanks once again all of you guys.

[normcar]

The total length of the video is little more then 4 hours so its not good to fit it on a single layer DVD-R, i was thinking of it but CloneDVD was showing 57% of the quality which is too much, two DVD's are better but only pain now is swaping of discs.
Thanks once again all of you guys.

Yea, I don't like to compress more than 70%, otherwise, I believe the video may have problems during playback.

[VegasBud]

sohaibrazzaq,

If it's something you watch often, it seems like you're going to get real sick of changing disks (and interrupting the flow of the viewing) to see the whole movie. I know it would drive me nuts.

Dual layer is not that much of a problem, especially since the original dvd isn't encrypted, which means if you just skip the annoying parts (as I mentioned), while leaving them intact, you can use the original layer break when you burn it. It doesn't get much easier than that.

As far as the cost goes, isn't is worth an extra buck and a half to have the movie on one disk?

While there are a few dvd players that have a problem with dual layer, the number is so small that it shouldn't be a problem if you use Verbatim disks, burn with ImgBurn, and remember to set the booktype to "DVD-ROM". If you want to be absolutely certain, check your dvd player in the "Lists" section of this site to verify it plays burned dual layer.