Double Sided DVD to DVD-R

[craigwojo]

Hi everyone,

I have an older DVD that has the movie on both sides of the disc. I would I take both sides and join them together to have the full movie on one side of a DVD-R single layer.

Thank you,
Craig

[manono]

Hi-

Decrypt them to 2 different folders. Renumber the vobs of the second half so they follow the ones in the first half. If, for example, the final 1st half vob is VTS_01_5.VOB, start the renumbering of the 2nd half vobs as VTS_01_6.VOB. Then move the vobs into the same folder. If reencoding for a DVD5, then reencode (or transcode with DVD Shrink if you want to take the easy and inferior way out). You won't be able to use the original menu, though, at least not for the 2nd half of the movie. You might want to create a new one with new chapters later on, if it's important to you.

Another way is to open the vobs for both halves all at once in DGIndex. First add in the ones from the first half, followed by the ones for the second half. Then File->Save Project and Demux M2V. That will give you an M2V of the entire movie and a joined audio of the whole movie. If you're handy with AviSynth, you can use that D2V in an AviSynth script for reencoding. Or, if you use TMPGEnc for encoding, you can open that D2V directly in there.

There's at least a chance you'll get audio asynch in the 2nd half doing that, though. You can worry about that later, or encode the 2 halves separately and create 2 different titles to be played consecutively.

Sometimes with that kind, the last cell will have something like "To play the rest of the film, turn the disc over", or some such. If there's audio asynch in the 2nd half, it's often because of that message (which has no audio). You decrypt using DVD Decrypter in IFO Mode, and just remove that last cell. There's are lots of ways to do this, but unless you really know what you're doing, you might not see any possible problems until you're done. Since you don't really know what you're doing, I'd follow the suggestion in my first paragraph and hope for the best.

[Super Warrior]

Hi everyone,

I have an older DVD that has the movie on both sides of the disc. I would I take both sides and join them together to have the full movie on one side of a DVD-R single layer.

Thank you,
Craig

This is a very simple task. Just treat the double-sided DVD as if it were 2 separete DVDs.

#1. Rip each DVD/DVD-Side.

#2. Join both with DVDRemakePro. It can join them to 1 disc w/menus to both intact.

#3. Resize to DVD-R size.

Easy. While DVDRemakePro is worth the price alone just for the join feature, its also great for other things like removing excess junk to save space.

[rvelez]

Here's another method.

http://ifoedit.wh.fr0zen.com/joinclip.html#joindbl

[t0nee1]

You can do it the easy way, DVDRemake Pro, or DVDFab Platinum, or not so easy way but it also works...
http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=77030
I used this method several times successfully, however I now prefer the easy way......something tells me so will you.....good luck!