Keeping the Menues and Movie in DVDSHRINK

[bigb1979]

Hi there...

so i just got familiar with dvdshrink and i think its a very good programm....

but theres on thing missing:

you cant keep the menues and just the movies without any extras ... right ?!?!?

When i try to drag and drop the complete menue to my re-authored dvd it doesnt work (


can someone help

[MackemX]

Hi

you can and can't do this with DVDShrink

there's plenty of solutions to this elsewhere in the forum , it's up to you if you want to search but I'm sure someone else will do it for you if you don't

:EDIT: I got bored, lol
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=185976

[jimmalenko]

Something I cannot get a grasp of is when people want to keep all of the menus but only want the main movie. We of the least interaction believe that if you only want the main movie, why not have it start automatically when you put the DVD in, instead of having to navigate through a menu in which only 1 option works ?

Methinks people must like pressing their DVD remotes....

[j1d10t]

I personally like keeping the original menu, because I like having the scene selection menu, and don't feel like making one of my own. Another easy way to do this is to rip and "shrink" the whole DVD to your HD, ignoring the extras - just make sure the size of everything you want to keep is under 4.37GB. Then create your own "blank" VOB file (I've got one that is 10kb in size, and is only 1 frame of video), then replace all the extras with your blank VOB file - it keeps the DVD structure, while eliminating the unwanted extras. I also recommend using MenuEdit to remove the unusable menu options from the menus. You may run into some problems when you try to burn the files to DVD, so you first need to create a DVD-ROM (ISO/UDF) (being sure to put the files in a folder named VIDEO_TS) disk image, then burn that to a DVD.

I've done this several times (using Nero to create the disk image and then burn that image to DVD), and they've worked great on several players.

[Bob W]

Why can't you in DVDshrink just un-check what you don't want and/or make some extras "still pictures"? That way all the DVD structure should be intact.

[j1d10t]

Why can't you in DVDshrink just un-check what you don't want and/or make some extras "still pictures"? That way all the DVD structure should be intact.

You can have shrink make the extras "still pictures" and eliminate the audio for the extras, but depending on how large your extras are, they can get pretty big - I did one where the "still pictures" for the extras came to about 500MB in size. I'd rather use that space for the main movie...

[jimmalenko]

For the technically minded, you can use IFOEdit to do just the main movie while keeping all of the menus. Follow the links to where you download IFOEdit from Derrow - he has some great manuals there with step by step on many different configs.

[MackemX]

Something I cannot get a grasp of is when people want to keep all of the menus but only want the main movie. We of the least interaction believe that if you only want the main movie, why not have it start automatically when you put the DVD in, instead of having to navigate through a menu in which only 1 option works ?

Methinks people must like pressing their DVD remotes....

I could just say 'I cannot grasp why people just do movie-only when some DVD's have menu/extra features that people like to keep

or DVD's that have chapter selections that are required to playback the DVD as removing menu's will make the DVD useless or people just simply prefer the menu and chapter selection as their preferences'

but I won't say that , my point is that people do everything in different ways and the best thing people can do is accept it instead of questioning it

'to each his own'

p.s. 500MB in still pictures is over 10% of the DVD blank

[djmattyb]

j1d10t,

The idea with the blank vob is a good one. So good that the program Nero Recode does it for you. When you remove something, in order to keep the DVD structure, it puts in either a blank page, or you can select your own image to show or a single color. It is the best solution I have seen so far for people who want to backup their movies and shrink/edit their menus. So people who are reading these messages, be sure to try out Nero Recode

[MackemX]

the idea of using a blank VOB has been around for ages now and I think CloneDVD was one of the first programs to actually use a blank VOB a few months ago as IC completely removes the video instead and causes issues for some users

if people want to do it the manual way then check out mine and 2COOL's Title stripping guides HERE and HERE

can someone tell me if the removed title still plays back for the same amount of time as the original video and does it allow for menu removal in Recode?

[tompika]

Can someone tell me if the removed title still plays back for the same amount of time as the original video

Yes, it plays the blank or whatever you load for the same amount of time.

Does it allow for menu removal in Recode?

You mean like this?

[MackemX]

yeah cheers

good and bad I suppose, as does that means 30 secs of warnings (in menu) will now be 30 secs of blank screen?

[hitechjunkie]

yeah cheers

good and bad I suppose, as does that means 30 secs of warnings (in menu) will now be 30 secs of blank screen?

not if you use ifoedit to modify VIDEO_TS.IFOs "First Play-PGC" value to go directly to the main menu, skipping all the (blank) warnings, previews, etc. there are many ifoedit guides available, some here

http://mpucoder.kewlhair.com/derrow/guides.html

[lafamar]

Hy bigb1979,

You also can try CLONEDVD. It´s a friendly software (dowload here on Tools section). You´ll can keeping all menu or partial menu (some audio, some languages, some extras, etc...) or anything that you want to put in your DVD and It´s a burner software too. It has a scale of compress (red, yellow and green) for your decision how much you want to compress.

Good luck.

[j1d10t]

I could just say 'I cannot grasp why people just do movie-only when some DVD's have menu/extra features that people like to keep

or DVD's that have chapter selections that are required to playback the DVD as removing menu's will make the DVD useless or people just simply prefer the menu and chapter selection as their preferences'

but I won't say that , my point is that people do everything in different ways and the best thing people can do is accept it instead of questioning it

'to each his own'

p.s. 500MB in still pictures is over 10% of the DVD blank

I don't remember which DVD it was, but it had a ton of extras that (in total) were pretty long.

the idea of using a blank VOB has been around for ages now and I think CloneDVD was one of the first programs to actually use a blank VOB a few months ago as IC completely removes the video instead and causes issues for some users

if people want to do it the manual way then check out mine and 2COOL's Title stripping guides

CloneDVD sounds nice, but you can do this on your own, for free, so paying for a program that will do it for you is kind of a waste, I think. But as you just wrote, "to each his own"

[tompika]

yeah cheers

good and bad I suppose, as does that means 30 secs of warnings (in menu) will now be 30 secs of blank screen?

not if you use ifoedit to modify VIDEO_TS.IFOs "First Play-PGC" value to go directly to the main menu, skipping all the (blank) warnings, previews, etc. there are many ifoedit guides available, some here

http://mpucoder.kewlhair.com/derrow/guides.html

MackemX probably knows more about IFOEdit than anybody else here...

[jimmalenko]

Every title and every chapter is accessible from the remote of your DVD player....

I have no qualms with people who keep some of the extra features and therefore would prefer to keep the menu - it is the people who do the main movie only and keep the menu with often many options non functional that baffles me a bit - but I can agree with

'to each his own'

[MackemX]

CloneDVD sounds nice, but you can do this on your own, for free, so paying for a program that will do it for you is kind of a waste, I think. But as you just wrote, "to each his own"

I wasn't recommending CloneDVD, I was just saying they were the first to pick up on the blank VOB's even though the guides had been out a while . I got sick of doing it manually so thats why I created DVDStripper to dramatically cut down the usertime of the manual methods as I did a little more that taking out a title here and there

not if you use ifoedit to modify VIDEO_TS.IFOs "First Play-PGC" value to go directly to the main menu, skipping all the (blank) warnings, previews, etc. there are many ifoedit guides available, some here

I never like changing the First Play as some video has hidden commands and some DVD's aren't that easy to change the first play

MackemX probably knows more about IFOEdit than anybody else here...

I'll take that as a compliment , and I know there's a lot more to learn , but I'm enjoying every second as I'm working on some new stuff but not just IFO's

[noki]

bigb1979
look here for Shrink w_functional menus and no extras...
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=185976&highlight=
good luck.

[MackemX]

bigb1979
look here for Shrink w_functional menus and no extras...
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=185976&highlight=
good luck.

Hi noki , Beat ya to it

[Brehmstein]

I have used the guide Noki just metioned... I think it is the greatest thing ever.

When I put in the disk the main movie instantly starts, but if I want to use the chaper seletion in the menu, I simply hit my dvd menu button on my remote and select the appropriate chapter...

Works great.

[noki]

MackemX
you got me