Re-authoring a DVD with DVD Decryptor and DVD Architect

[dvd-dude]

I posted a question a while back about taking certain titles from DVDs burned with my standalone recorder and reauthoring them on my PC so that I could add custom menus.

They suggested TMPEGEnc DVD Author (which it sounds like I could rip the titles, add them and add menus). However, if I can avoid paying another $70 that would be great (since I just bought DVD Architect).

So an alternative they suggested was to rip the DVD VOB files as video files using DVD Decryptor and then using DVD Architect to make a new DVD with menus. However, here's a major concern of mine... Won't ripping them to video format and then re-ecnoding them to MPEG2 with DVD Architect impact the picture quality? I remember trying to do this with video from a DVD to edit with and it looked horrible once it was re-encoded (twice as many artifacts).

So I guess what I'm trying to figure out is how can I rip these titles (VOB files), add custom menus (with music and pictures/video), and then re-author them to a new DVD without losing any picture quality (i.e. no re-encoding)? Your advice is appreciated. Thanks!

-DVD-Dude

[guns1inger]

If you demux the vobs back to a video and audio stream, or even back to an mpeg2 stream. DVDA should take them without reencoding. There are a number of tools that can demux for you, with no change to the video or audio itself, other than the container it sits in.

[dvd-dude]

Okay... I'm hopeless.

I've been looking around for about 30 minutes for a program to demux my .vob files... even to convert them to a separate mpeg2 video stream and AC3 (or whatever) audio stream. I can't seem to find anything. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I was intending to rip to VOB files with DVDShrink as it is already on my machine... but perhaps there is another program that will rip straight from the DVD to the demixed streams?

Thanks for your help!

-DVD-Dude

[D.A.R.J.R.]

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=255408

They have released a cheaper version of Tmpg DVD author, only $45. Could you afford that?

EDIT: You can try the trial version, its good for a month.