DVD add-on

[kippard]

We have to rip incoming DVD's and then add new segments (mpeg2's) to the existing ripped content. I'd like to re-author a menu-less DVD in the fewest steps possible, and be able to manually insert chapter marks. Please advise. I imagine starting w/ DVD Decrypter, changing VOB extensions to MPEG and appending/joing in VirtualDub-MPEG. Do you agree? Where to from there?

Thank you again videohelp!
kippard

[guns1inger]

PGCEdit can add/alter chapter points. Muxman can author simple, no-menu discs

[kippard]

Thanks again guns. Answer me this, if you create VIDEO_TS folder you are happy with, can you swap in any .VOB's, and any number of .VOB's and just burn it to a disc? Also, are most DVD recorders (standalone units) capable of burning a short program to a C-DR (automatic SVCD)? And how compatible w/ players are SVCD's?
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Thank again for your reply,
kippard

[guns1inger]

No. You cab replace parts of DVDs with some of the tools available, like titlesetblanker and pgcedit, but you can't just replace files. These tools adjust navigation and mapping in the ifo and surrounding VOBs as well.

I don't know of any DVDRs that write to CD-R in the SVCD format, and I can't see a reason to. It's a dead format. SVCD support in DVD players is not mandatory. Many will play them, but quite a few will not. I had an early Pioneer player that would play +R and -R discs before most people knew what they were. It played VCD, DVDs created from SVCD mpegs. But it would not play SVCDs at all.

[kippard]

Again guns, thank you! After I asked, the hover info on VIDEO_TS made me realize it wasn't that easy. guns ftw!
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