putting multiple backups on one disc

[qp_justice]

ive seen the numerous guides and most, along with this forum, are very good and helped me out greatly. but i was wondering if anyone had a guide that would enable me to put multiple movie backups on one disk and create a menu system that linked to the different movies. all im going to put on them are the actual movies themselves, no extra stuff. just video, audio, chapters, and subs. any help such as just pointing me in the direction of which software to use would be greatly appreciated. im sure im not the only person who would like to do this, so if anyone has done it, your help would be greatly appreciated as well.

thanks

[bugster]

Simple. Rip and convert each movie to an mpg file. Import into your favourite DVD-authoring app and follw the help that came with it. You can give each movie its own menu and add your own chapter points. If you were expecting to be able to extract chapter info from the original DVD and use that, I won't say it cant be done for multiple movies, but I don't know how.

BTW, if you are going to put multiple movies one one disk, you will have to lower the bitrate massivley, maybe re-encode to mpeg-1 at VCD resolution and say 1500kbs bitrate, the quality will be much poorer than the original!

[qp_justice]

thanks for your help. although quality is an issue, i dont expect it to be a real issue. most of the movies ive transcoded with TMPG so far have been between 1.5 - 2 gig and the quality still rivaled that of the original dvd. my only concern, being the newb that i am, is if it were possible to put more than one movie on a disc. the chapters and stuff i dont really need to have, as i usually watch the entire movie. the authoring program i am currently using is Maestro, but the menu creation on that seems to be very complicated. any help or tutorial would be greatly appreciated. thanks again

[bugster]

There are several gudies on DVD authoring using various packages already on this site. Look to the guides section on the left or in the user guides forum.

Maestro is expensive and complicated to use. If you can 'afford' Maestro I am sure you can 'afford' one of the much cheaper and easier consumer level products now available.