reencodeing a 9.4GB DVD to fit on a 4.7GB DVD-R WITH menus?

[Super Warrior]

I have a 9.4GB DVD that i'd like to put onto a single 4.7Gb DVD-R and keep the menues.

I'm planning on getting everything to fit by re-encodeing all the DVD movie&extra files to around SVCD quality with TMPGenc.So that way they can all fit onto the DVD-R easily.

But how do i retain all the menues as well after? Anyone know any simple,no hassel ways of doing this?

[jarvis1781]

yes,

do a search under user guides for DVD-9 to DVD-5 Keeping Menus The Easy Way

[Super Warrior]

[jarvis1781]

here

http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=129648

is that better

[Super Warrior]

Ummm i requested a simple,No Hassel solution.All the stuff you listed in that topic is a hell of a lot of crap to mess with.And it dos'ent even explain how to auctually use any of it either.

Well....thanks for posting anyway

[jarvis1781]

ha ha ha
if you want a NO HASSEL solution...just buy another copy!
it will save you a lot of time and headaches...both of which cost money

as I learned in economics...TINSTAAFL...There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch

[jimboy435]

This worked for me so it may work for you too.A simple way to do this would be:

1) Rip everything ofcourse to your local drive.
2) Using DVD2ONE - get everything around 4.3GB.
3) DVD2one will create probably 4 VTS_1 sets(VTS_1_1, etc)
4) depending on how big your menu is(usually its less than 200 MB), YOuo have to REENCODE the last VTS_1_4 to fit your MENU..

IN other words, IF the total output what DVD2one creates is (4.3 gb) then you need to re-encode the last movie from 0.9 GB to maybe 800MB(using CCE) and create a VOB using DVD Maestro.

Once you do that, rename your vob to VTS_01_4.VOB. HEre is the important part to make sure it works.

1)COPY all the files you ripped from your DVD MOVIE(orignial VOB) and copy ALL THE FILES into a folder.

2) If your movie set is in VTS_01_x then delete the movie set (for e.g for a 9.4gb movie, VTS may be VTS_01_1, VTS_01_2,...till maybe vts_01_8)
Then cut and paste the 4 movie VOBS you created above. ONLY THE MOVIE..NOT any BUP OR IFO FILES!!!

Another step: EVEN if you don't want the extras, MAKE SURE you leave th em in your directory, you can delete after step below. The reason you leave them(The ifo and bup,vob) files is because some crappy DVD players such as SONY DVDN715P and Samsung and TOSHIBA Crap(I call them T squared for Toshiba Trash) like to make sure every IFO file is included in your DVD..they do a CHECK for those files, If its not present THEY WONT PLAY!!

3) Once you have that, load ifoupdate, and orignal IFO is the one you ripped from the DVD(UNCHANGED) and oringal IFO is also the one that should be currently in you directory as mentioned above.
Authored is the one DVD2ONE created.

4) Do an UPDATE IFO and then Correct VTS Sectors. The ifo files(+ifo for extras) get updated, It repoints the sectors.

Once that's updated you are ready to burn. You can NOW delete an VOB file for EXTRAS. I usually leave the IFO and BUP and it works on the TOSHIBA that I bought in 1998(first dvd player made my human race maybe)...

Any questions, email me at jimmymehra@yahoo.com

Jimmy