dvd trailers with different aspect ratios back on dvdr

[gaillard73]

Hey guys,

Tried to look up the forum several times, but I remain extremly confused about all this dvd to dvd-r thing.

My goal : rip trailers out of my dvds, and put them back on a dvdr and be able to play them in loop.

What I did so far :
ripped all the necessary vobs
recreated ifo files for each of them

my open issues :
First of all, all these trailers have different "specs" : some are 4:3, some are 16:9, some audio tracks are different, some of them have subtitles attached, and so on... In short, if I try the "join clips" method proposed by some of you (in vobedit), none of this will end up with the correct aspect ratios or correct tracks attached. Besides this, I don't want to reencode the whole thing... vobs are mpeg files, so why do the work twice ?

What I think I should do is have a tool that would allow me to create multiple title sets and generate the correct ifo files for all this (1 video_ts.ifo summarizing all of them and then I'll just add the separate ifo files that I've already generated). The question : is there such a tool out there ?

So far, the best I could come up with was to insert all my vob files (that I renamed .mpg) into Sonic MyDvd, create menus and ask to not reencode. Then I create a dvd folder (it generates all the necessary ifo files), and finally I go into the video_ts directory and edit the specific .ifo files to modify the aspect ratios + audio. (of course myDvd is not intelligent enough to allow me setting this manually before creation).
This technique seems to work, the only drawback is that I'm unable to play all the title sets in one shot. Does anybody have an idea ? (could this be edited in the main ifo files ?)

I spent already 3 WE on this... but I have a deadline on Thu... so any help would be appreciated...

Thanks.

[Faustus]

Heres how I would do it. Rip each of the trialers out with DVDdecrypter, then reauthor them in DVD Maestro. I'd set up each one as a seperate movie and thus give each its own settings as far as Widescreen or Full Screen. Lastly I'd link each "movie" to each other via the connections menus. So movie one goes to movie two, the end of two goes to threes. Lastly I'd link the end of the last one to the start of movie one.

That shoud do it.