Is it possible to re-author a dvd?

[macgvyer]

I have a dvd that someone created. There are 5 segments on the dvd. After you watch a segment, it goes back to the main menu dvd. I need to have this dvd play all 5 segments, one after the other.
If this can be done, what program will do it.

Thank you
Corey

[andkiich]

Yes it can be done, and look i nthe guides section to the left, all the info you will need is there.

[jdizzy40]

Grab DVD Shrink in the tools section to the left. Check the guides section for the DVD Shrink guide. You want advanced authoring guide. Post back if you need help.

[turk690]

DVD-Shrink can indeed be used to re-author a DVD so that chosen titles from that DVD will play back sequentially on the created DVD but the menu is gone. If the menu is important 1st DVD-Decrypter should be used to extract the vobs, lumping all vobs into one big vob for each VTS (if the original DVD is multi-VTS) or just lumping all the vobs into one big vob (for one VTS), and giving the same to DVD-lab. A menu can be created (new or from the existing DVD) and in the connections space (for multi-vobs) arrows should link each one to ensure sequential playback instead of returning to menu after each clip is played.

[Lord of the Discs]

You can also do it wihtout re-authoring, by using IFOedit to change the
post-commands in the IFOs.

LotD

[SaSi]

You can also do it wihtout re-authoring, by using IFOedit to change the
post-commands in the IFOs.

LotD

Now THAT would be like making changes to an EXE with a hex editor

I don't want to insult the (many) members of this forum that apparently use IFOEDit to make such changes all the time, but for once I would really enjoy a step-by-step explanation on how it's done. Whenever I work with IFOEdit, I personally feel like an idiot.

[Lord of the Discs]

IfoEdit is really not easy to use, for some examples and background-info
check my website here:

http://home.arcor.de/josef.braunstein

LotD

[Vejita-sama]

Sasi/Spock - IFOEdit is actually pretty easy to learn. But there doesn't seem to be a single 'complete' guide for it. So what you have to do is rip a DVD (a 'complex one' with multiple PGC and VTS) then just sit down and play with it.

It's not like using a HEX editor on an EXE, because DVDs use a file structure NOT a file format. In a way this makes life easier (for editing). But a pain in the ass for some other things (like backing up the main movie and keeping the menu).

There's a lot going on in the IFOs that people don't know about. I don't know the 'proper names' for 1/2 the crap I'm changing around. Trail and error thou taught me a lot.

For example, chaning the headers from NTSC to PAL. This actually seems to work on many players!?! Re-authoring a whole DVD from the elementary streams (eg. big3 w/ or w/o encoding) is actually harder (or could be, this sounds like a simple DVDR)

[Specialist]

I have a dvd that someone created. There are 5 segments on the dvd. After you watch a segment, it goes back to the main menu dvd. I need to have this dvd play all 5 segments, one after the other.
If this can be done, what program will do it.

Thank you
Corey

Ulead's VideoStudio 7...

http://www.ulead.com/vs/features.htm

...has a DVD-VR capture plug-in that will let you extract the raw MPEGs from the DVD.

Then you can line up all of the MPEGs in the timeline of VideoStudio and create a single MPEG file by adjusting VideoStudio's project settings to precisely match the properties of the source MPEGs and then render out a single, joined file with no quality loss.

Then use the DVD authoring module of Ulead VideoStudio 7 to create the new DVD with the single file.

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net