I have ran a DVD through DVD Shrink, but it came out in 2 parts. What 2 do?

[ZQ8_Blazer]

I ran a DVD through DVD Shrink and it came out fine, but in 2 parts instead of one. How can I join these or fix the problem all together?

[bendixG15]

What are the two parts ???

[ZQ8_Blazer]

The original DVD (well the movie) is just one part. It splits the movie into like 3/4 and 1/4

[guns1inger]

What folders and files has it produced ?

A movie when authored for DVD, rarely fits into a single file (VOB), and usually requires several.

[ZQ8_Blazer]

I have 2 .BUP, 2 .IFO, 1 JPEG, 1 Movie Clip, and 1 .VOB

I found a selection to put the DVD on one .VOB file, but it says it isn't recommended. When I go to conver it into a .3GP file it doesn't all get converted just part of it and it isn't from the beginning either.

[guns1inger]

The jpeg isn't a jpeg, that is just how your system is interpreting it. It sounds like you have not correctly use Shrink to grab just the title you want.

A little background. The DVD specification says a VOB file (which holds the video, audio, menus, sub-pictures etc) can be no larger than 1000MB. Depending on what bitrate is used, this may be as little as 15 minutes of video. All correctly encoded movies use at least 3 VOB files, and often more than 6 or 7 if necessary. The IFO files contain the information about how the disc is structured.

A good conversion program will be able to read the IFO, determine what VOBs have the titles in them, and convert correctly, regardless of the number of VOBs involved.

Most commercial and giveaway converters are, frankly, crap. They will take a VOB and convert it (often badly) to another format, but aren't smart enough to handle a film that is split across several VOBs. You obviously have one of these converters.

The simplest solution is to use something like either VOB2MPG to extract the video/audio content out to a single mpg file per title, and convert that instead, or VOBMerge to join all the VOBs in the title into a single VOB, and convert from that. Otherwise look for a smarter converter.

[ZQ8_Blazer]

Ok thanks for your help