Need a guide for putting 2 complete DVD5's onto 1 DVD-R

[scottb721]

I can easily do Main Movie only using reauthor in DVDshrink but each DVD has just 2 30min episodes each plus some bonus material.
I'd like to try and get both DVD's on the -R complete and somehow choose which "DVD" on the -R is to be played.

My Pioneer DV266 allows me to see all the "titles" on a DVD and choose where to jump in at. Hopefully this will negate the need to make a master still at the beginning.

Hopefully the required apps are free.

I've only ever used Shrink so my knowlede of other apps is zero.

Thanks for your time.

[nufan292]

With reauthor/movie only, it's possible
With original menus, not possible

[Gurm]

It's not IMPOSSIBLE, it's just IMPRACTICAL... and a huge pain in the ass.

There exists, sadly, no easy way to do what you want.

- Gurm

[dimad]

Check DvdReMake Pro. http://www.dimadsoft.com/dvdremakepro/ht_merge1.php - of course it is not exactly what you need but may be this guide will give you a hint.

[oncall]

To get 2 movies into 1 DVD, see http://www.dvd-guides.com/guides.php?category=dvdjoin&name=shrinkmix

[Supreme2k]

It is impossible to put more than one ripped movie on a single DVD without reauthoring. This has been discussed many times, and the basic conclusion is that file structure (VIDEO_TS folder) prevents it. Only a single VIDEO_TS can be in the root folder, and DVDs do not deal with sub folders beyond that.

[MackemX]

I've only started playing with the adding feature in DRM a few days ago but I've already managed to join Star Wars Episodes 1 & 2 together and keep all original menu/chapter/audio/subs menu's

after adding the VTs, all I have done is pinched a button from the main menu to jump between the root menu's of each movie and it works as if you were swapping the DVD's. Now I know what to do it takes me less than 10 minutes to do all the editing and it could be quicker if options were changed slightly

Merging Guide

I guess you could use this idea for a few series DVD's due to them having similar structures and also for DVD's with simple navigation

as for mixing 2 completely different DVD's, I guess you could do it with some if you merged the 2 VIDEO_TS and then compensated the commands throughout the 2nd DVD

so I wouldn't say it's impossible

[scottb721]

Why is it different when doing multiple Star Wars DVD's compared to 2 unrelated movies ?
The Star Wars DVD's are just seperate as 2 unrelated DVD's.

Looking promising!

[Dragonfly2337]

It's not free but InterVideo DVDcopy does a good job.
You get a free 15 day trial to see if this is what you want to do.

Take a look at this 2 movies in 1 with everything?
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=225625&highlight=

I posted some examples of my menu's that were created with InterVideo DVDcopy.

[petar]

Why is it different when doing multiple Star Wars DVD's compared to 2 unrelated movies ?
The Star Wars DVD's are just seperate as 2 unrelated DVD's.

Looking promising!

Each DVD is authored differently in terms of navigation (though you can spot similarities in DVDs from the same movie studio) so it's very difficult to come up with a common solution for merging any two random DVDs and keep their original menus. Though the principle is the same as in the guide MackemX posted. After you've put all VTSs together you need to figure out the navigation and modify it. But it sounds easier than it actually is, especially when you get very complex DVDs with hundreds of PGCs linking and modifying registers all over the place. It may take you ages.

But there are clever programmers out there. You never know if one day they come up with a universal tool that can do this.