backing up dvd to svcd with menus and chapters intact

[cs_exile]

in want to know if theres a program that will rip the dvd to (s)vcd with its menus? possibly without all extra features and things, but with the main menu and chapter select. there is a guide on this site but it involves me downloading many programs and spending many hours wrking on something that may not wrk. is there one file that does it all available? or is there a way of doing it with the tools i have such as nero, tmpgenc and super dvd ripper. i currently use super dvd ripper, which is a good prgram but it just uts the film onto vcd and plays it straight away when put into dvd player, also theres no chapters when using it so u have to go back to the days of vhs and fast forward alot. info on creating my own menus would also be useful, nero has this option but it is very limited, and does not allow for a chapter select screen

[fingers]

No there really isn't an all in one way of doing this. You can rip the menus just like you ripped the video, it's just in a different section of the DVD ripper, it basically turns into an MPG sequence, but you'd still have to recreate the menu and it's a lot of work to create menu's using VCDeasy.

As for chaptering, you really need to look at the guide on this site, it tells you how to use chapter extractor along with VCDEASY to create chapter points.

Basically you would use VCDeasy, load in your mpeg, you can either use the chapter points contained in the IFO file you ripped or you can insert chapters at an interval like every 5 minutes. Then VCDeasy will create a bin/cue image that you can burn in Nero..

Otherwise you could rip and encode each chapter into a seperate Mpeg file, then setup Nero's menu to point to each mpg file, but that's a lot more work..and I think Nero has a limit on the amount of files it can point to in the menu...