Looking for some Rip help

[Smack2k]

Hey,

Question about Ripping DVD's......

I want to be able to take 1 DVD (Wrestling) that is about 4 Hr's in total, rip the DVD and then reauthor it over 2 DVD's with the menus to preserve quality.

Is there a way to rip the DVD so the .VOB files are each match or segment in its entirety? When I rip with DVD Decrypter in File Mode I just get a bunch of large .VOB files and some small ones. The large ones are chunks of the whole video, with a start being in the middle of one segment and the end in the middle of another. I am not to sure about the IFO mode or if this would work either.

What I want to know is how can I get the menus from the DVD onto each of my burned DVD's and have the menu links to the matches work for the first half on disc 1 and the second half on disc 2? I want to be able to have the menus on each disc I use to break up the master with, but only the links to the stuff contained on each new burned disc would work and the rest would do nothing when clicked on it.

I posted something similar in the Authoring section and the reply I got there made me need to ask this question. Here was the reply....

I did something similar to this once. Try this:

Use DVDFabDecrypter (free) to rip the dvd to your hard drive. Then create a directory for your second dvd. Decide which VOB files will be on your second disc and move them to the second disc directory. Then go to Windows Notepad and create empty files to match the files remaining on disc one, making sure they have the same file names (video1_1.vob, video1_1.ifo, etc.). Repeat this procedure for the files now missing from the disc one directory.

Be sure also to copy (not move) the menu files from the disc one directory to the disc two directory - this will preserve the menu you want.

You are essentially creating two copies of the same dvd, only at half the size because half of the videos aren't really there. It will work, though, because the dvd structure is still in place. This way you also don't have to screw with any conversions which downgrade the picture quality and give you out-of-sync audio. after you've created/fixed your directories, burn them using whatever you use.

Now, I've never done this process exactly -creating two discs- but I have "duped" the dvd player using this technique before, so it may or may not work. Alternatively, you could just use DVD Shrink to put it on one disc without losing much, if any, noticeable quality

I hope this makes sense, thanks for the help!

Do I need different software to do this?

[redwudz]

You could use Decrypter in File Mode and create one large VOB from the DVD. 'Tools>Settings>File Mode' and change File Splitting to 'None'. Then you could use VOB2MPG to convert to MPG and split it where you want with a video editor. The rest, I don't know.

BTW, This is not DVD to AVI. Moving you.