VHS -> capture -> CVD -> rip -> DVD-R ?

[miamicanes]

If I capture a CVD-compliant MPEG-2 file from VHS source material and burn it to a CD-R, can I easily rip and recreate the MPEG-2 file from the CD-R at some point in the future when I finally get a DVD writer and consolidate the contents of a half-dozen CVDs onto one DVD-R without having to do anything massively time-consuming? Put another way, if I have a CVD with five tracks, is there an easy way to rip those 5 tracks back into normal MPEG-2 files, ready to burn onto a DVD-R as 1/2 DV1(?)-resolution video (possibly with a detour along the way to resample the audio)? Or does the act of authoring the CVD irreparably mangle the MPEG-2 files written to the disc so they can't be recreated at a later date?

[SatStorm]

I do it that way:

I rip the mpeg 2 files from CVD
I re-mux them as mpeg 2 VBR (not mpeg 2 VBR SVCD!)
I load the files to Unlead.
I make the menus, etc
I burn

If the audio is 48khz and the Video 352 X 576/480 with the correct GOP structure, you don't need to re-encode anything.