trouble with playback on 4Hour movie

[item9]

ok I have a 4 hour movie I put together on a single layer DVD:
on all dvd players the movie stops @ 1 hour and 53 minutes of playback,
but when played with WindowsMediaPlayer the entire 4 hour video plays,
I know the entire video is there, but how do i change the length of playback available?
any help is much appreciated, THANKS.

[minidv2dvd]

possibly someone forgot to remove the layer break from the dvd structure of a dvd9 when they made it. you would have to re-author it or remove it with another tool and make a new dvd.

[gll99]

Sounds like you are hitting a file size limit. The problem may not show up on your pc because using most software media players for fat32 the file size limit is 4gb and for ntfs it is virtually unlimited.

If this is an authored dvd, did you make one large vob or are they multiple 1gb vobs?

If this is an mpeg4/divx/xvid avi keep it under 2gb by splitting the movie in 2 or 3 parts as needed. Many standalone divx players may see the file but can't read past the 2gb limit. For example, my Philips dvp-642 can read 4gb avi but can only play up to the 2gb limit but the Philips dvp-5990 can play up to 4gb.

[item9]

this is a dvd i authored and contains multiple vobs,
what i did was take 3 movies of a trilogy and edit them together into a continuous movie by:
ripping the vobs of all 3 movies onto my hard drive, renaming the vobs so they were all under
the same vts (vts1_0, vts1_1, etc.),
then using ifo edit to create ifos for the vobs,
and using auto GK to open the new ifo and merge all 3 movies into one avi file,
then i used virtual dub to edit the avi into one seamless movie,
used audacity to compress the audio,
and ended up with a 4bg avi that gave me a 6gb dvd image,
which i shrunk to 4.3Gb image.

so do you think compressing the 4 gb avi to 2gb, and then burning to dvd will solve my problem?

[guns1inger]

I think authoring correctly would solve your problem, and not trying to bastardise other discs into a single one. Use PGCDemux to extract the elementary streams for each movie, then author a new disc correctly and I suspect you will have a lot less problems.

[indyram]

A better way to put together three movies on a single DVD

Store the vobs of each movie in three different folders

Run vob2mpeg program and convert the contents of each one of the folders into an mpeg2 file

Then use any one of your favorite authoring programs and make a new DVD with 3 titles ( create chapters)

or you can use TS file splitter ( which also combines) to combine them into one large file

and make a DVD with just a single Title

I have done it and it works

Good luck

Indy Ram