Dvd movie on two discs

[moggio]

I would like to know if it is possible to burn a dvd movie on two discs, it is
to large for one disc, and how to do it?
I have a mac and i burn it with toast 6.
Thanks

[Baldrick]

moving you to the macforum.

[AntnyMD]

Use DVD2OneX to split your unencrypted movie at the layer break, then burn the two pieces on two discs.

[moggio]

Ok i downloaded that program but it seems like its only working with
already existing dvd discs i have a file that i dowloaded from internet
and i would like to split it so a can burn it on two discs i also dowloaded
mac the ripper but it looks just the same you need an already existing dvd.
I am new in this with burning dvd and i dont know but it seems easier to fly to mars than burn a dvd!!

[Frobozz]

What kind of file did you download? If it is mpeg you can use the splitting function in MPEG2 Works to break it into two files. If it is a format that QuickTime Pro can edit you can use it to cut and save two files from the same video. Then you need an application such as Toast 6 or Sizzle to author your DVD.

[moggio]

It is an .avi file that a have run in divx doctor II so i can watch it with quicktime but i can not split it into two parts with any of those programs
what im i doing wrong???

[Frobozz]

It's been awhile since I had one of those files, but as I recall this will work. Drag the video to the Toast Video window. Click Edit. In the window that appears click Video. You'll see the first frame of your video and a scroll bar below. Drag the triangle marker at the right end toward the middle where you want the movie to break. Now burn that half to DVD. When it is done, drag the right triangle marker to the far right and the left marker to the middle point you chose. Burn the second DVD.

[galactica]

in all honesty, the non doctored .avi should split perfectly with ffmpegx. you can then watch non doctored .avi's with Video Lan Client or if you like can doctor up both of the splits so you can watch them in quicktime.

This is confusing because you say you want a dvd on 2 disks but then you talk about .avi files.

[moggio]

Thanks everyone now it works fine but my cube with 450mhz is a
bit slow for this, would it help to put in som more ram memory
or is it just a waist of money?
I got 832mb, max is 1,5gb, would it make any difference?

[Frobozz]

More RAM won't help. Reducing the size of the playback window may be helpful. What application are you using to play the DVD? Did you have the same problem when you played the .AVI?

[moggio]

No problems with playback, it is just very slow when i am encoding it.

[thoughton]

It depends what you mean by "slow" A 667Mhz G4 takes about 12 hours to encode a 90 min DVD, on your cube it's probably going to be 18 hours. Is it taking longer than this for you?

[MJYM]

How exactly do you split a DVD (with VIDEO_TS Folder) onto two discs? I want to back up a movie I bought without any loss of quality and DTS soundtrack

MJ

[thoughton]

How exactly do you split a DVD (with VIDEO_TS Folder) onto two discs? I want to back up a movie I bought without any loss of quality and DTS soundtrack

MJ

AntnyMD answered this question near the beginning of this thread.

[MJYM]

Ummm, I may be exceptionally stupid, but I can't figure out how to do it with DVD2OneX, that's why I was asking....

MJ

[galactica]

1. rip your movie over to your HD with MTR
2. open DVD2ONE, where it says COPY choose JOIN
3. you should see a window pop up on the right hand side. there are two options you can choose, one of them being CELL/CHAPTER/LAYER

clicking that, assuming you have the main title selected in the main dvd2one window, you will see that the movie has a layer 1 and a layer2

select all of layer one, and let dvd2one process that as 1 video_ts folder

repeat and then select all of layer 2 and let dvd2one process that as a 2nd video_ts folder

burn and you now have the movie in full quality split over 2 disks.

make since?

[contract73]

Galactica
This is on a Mac instructions correct?
I do not see the option for "where it says COPY choose JOIN" ?
Is DVD2oneX different than DVD2ONE?

TIA

[WiseWeasel]

Don't use Join mode, you can use Movie Only mode and do that thing with the Cells/Chapters/Layers, in layer mode, and extract one layer at a time. DVD2OneX is the MacOS X version of DVD2One.