Copying three titles on a DL disk

[Dinu Bandyopadhyay]

Folks, recently I went through a frustrating experience of copying three titles on a DL disk. I will share with you my experience so that you can avoid those extra steps that I took. Perhaps, there's a better way of doing the whole thing. I hope that the experts will tell us so.

What I wanted to do:
I have two Sony DVD+RW disks with three titles (1+2) on them, total of about 5.5 GB of video. These were made on a Sony DVD recorder from a normal TV broadcast. I wanted to put these three titles on a DVD+R DL disk with a minimum fuss (No re-encoding) using my computer and a dvd writer.

What I have:
A Pioneer A09 burner with 1.40 version of Firmware.
TMPGENC Plus, TMPGENC DVD Author 1.6,
DVDDECRYPTOR, DVDSHRINK
Nero Express (Came with my burner).

First an interesting problem: DVDSHRINK complains about the navigation problem of the +RW disk that has two titles, it couldn't read it. Here's the rest of the details.

What I did: First Time
1. Using DVD Decryptor created two ISO image from these DVD+RW disks.
2. Used DVDSHRINK and the guide available here, to combine these into a single 5.5 GB ISO image.
3. Used DVDDECRYPTOR to write the ISO image on to a RITEK DVD+R DL disk.

Result: Only the part of the image is copied, actually its the first title. There are two folders on the finalized disk, VIDEO_TS & VIDEO_RM. No idea why the whole thing wasn't copied.

What I did: Second Time
1. Using DVDSHRINK, created a video folder of VOB files from the combined ISO image as created above in step 2.
2. Used TMPGENC DVD writing tool to write these VOB files on to a Verbatim+R DL disk.

Result: The finalized disk is un-readble on all my standalone player as well as on Pioneer 109. DVDINFO tells me that all the manufacturer info is lost from the disk, bottom line it is beyond repair.

What I did: Third time
1. First using TMPGENC writing tool, tried to write the combined ISO on to a Verbatim+R DL disk. The tool complained that the ISO image of this size can't be written on a DL disk. Good warning.
2. Imported the VOB files created in step 2 above into TMPGENC DVD authoring tool, re-authored the files and used TPMGENC writing tool to write it on to the disk.
3. Success at last. Becuase of re-authoring I ended up getting only on title on the disk, but it is the whole thing. And it plays on all the players I have. Though I tried to avoid this re-authoring step, I couldn't find any other way of doing it using the tools I have.

Is there an easier way of doing these using the tools I have?

[dimad]

You can't do it without reauthoring with your tools. Try DvdReMake Pro: http://www.dimadsoft.com/dvdremakepro/ht_merge_full.php

[Abond]

Well, the easiest I can think of, is to copy vob files from first -rw in a folder and from second -rw in different folder. Then use DVDShrink in re-author mode, add the vobs in order you want, set the compression to custom size 100% and output to an ISO. Then burn the iso with DVDDecrypter.