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  1. Hi!

    I got this problem!

    Everybody knows "Friends". I got the first Season on DVD, but it is double-sided. I have to turn the DVD if i want to see the next four episodes.

    I ripped every side on my PC and now i want to merge them, using DVD-Shrink to shrink them and then i want to burn 8 Episodes on one DVD.

    I searched this Forum, but i couldnīt find any good matches.

    Is there any possibility or a guide to merge the IFO-Files that it contains ALL VOB-Files?

    I hope anybody can help me!

    THX in advanced!
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  2. You can follow this guide from doom9.com

    http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/dvdshrink2-main.htm

    Have fun
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  3. THX!

    I read this guide before, but with this guide i cannot merge 2 DVDīs.
    I tried it with DVD-Shrink.
    I cannot open 2 DVDīs with DVD-Shrink to create one DVD from 2 DVDīs
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  4. So try to use TMPGEnc DVD Author. It works well on me and you could create a new menu.
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  5. I tried the TMPEG-Author five minutes ago and it works fine, but it doesnīt rip the Subtitels

    I need the Subtitels

    Problems, problem and more problems
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  6. This may or may not work depending on how the disk is set up. I'm going to assume that each episode has it's own set of vob files. If so, you need to join all the vobs so that you have one set for the whole disk, and then recreate the ifo files. I don't believe that this would work if you want to keep your menu, but as I am not an expert, I can't be sure. You can try this guide, but remember that you'd have to do it with every vob file, not just the last of side A and the first of side B.

    http://ifoedit.wh.fr0zen.com/joinclip.html#joindbl...
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  7. Could someone post a new link to the joinclips page? The link in the previous reply does not work anymore. Or alternatively, if someone has the instructions which were on that page, could you post them here?

    Thanks
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  8. This will join VOB files of different DVD's together to one VOB file set, that can be burned to DVD-R like a regular Movie DVD with chapters.

    The trick to join multiple/different VOB files, is just every new clip or vob file must have a different VOB-ID. Then they can be packed together to one Title-Set and IfoEdit can then create IFO files for it, to burn it to DVD-R.

    Joining Clips:

    Example:

    Let's say you have 3 clips they contain a Dolby Digital Presentation, and they are named: VTS_01_1.VOB, VTS_02_1.VOB and VTS_03_1.VOB.

    1. Rename these 3 files to following order:
    VTS_01_001.VOB
    VTS_01_002.VOB
    VTS_01_003.VOB

    2. Open the first VOB file (VTS_01_001.VOB) with VobEdit, and choose the Menu: 'Edit -> Join Clips'



    A filedialog will apear, where you have to specify a destination directory for the final VOB file-set



    A second dialog will pop up, where you have to specify a starting VOB-ID. Usually you will enter here a '1' to let the TitleSet start with VOB-ID 1.
    But if already have a TitleSet, and you want to create now a second, and later you want to append it to the first one, then you should choose a higher VOB-ID number.
    But I'll explan that in detail later. So just enter here now a 1



    Joining begins now



    VobEdit is now looking for the first VOB-ID in the first VOB file, and exchanges it against our First-VOB-ID that we've specified.
    For every new VOB file, the VOB-ID gets increased by 1.

    When this is finished, you will have a new VOB file: VTS_01_1.VOB, or if you have joined more files you will have a Title-Set from VTS_01_1.VOB - VTS_01_n.VOB.

    Now just use IfoEdit to create new IFO files for this new Title-Set, and then you can burn this to DVD-R.


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    Joining double sided DVDs:

    Using this method, you are also able to put a double sided Movie-DVD to one DVD-R.
    I'll give an example:

    I have here the DVD 'Pretty Woman' which is splitted to Side A, and Side B.

    Side A containes: Side B containes:
    VTS_01_1.VOB
    VTS_01_2.VOB
    VTS_01_3.VOB
    VTS_01_4.VOB VTS_01_1.VOB
    VTS_01_2.VOB
    VTS_01_3.VOB


    We want to get it to one side. First you need the check out, which is the last VOB-ID on side A.
    So load VTS_01_4.VOB of side A into VobEdit, and scroll down to the last Navigation Pack. The last VOB-ID in that case is VOB-ID Nr: 2
    Okay, so the file VTS_01_1.VOB of side B must start with VOB-ID: 3

    First rename the files of side B to the following order:
    VTS_01_001.VOB
    VTS_01_002.VOB
    VTS_01_003.VOB

    2. Open the first VOB file (VTS_01_001.VOB) with VobEdit, and choose the Menu: 'Edit -> Join Clips'

    A filedialog will apear, where you have to specify a destination directory for the final VOB file-set. You better choose a new empty directory for that.
    A second dialog will pop up, where you have to specify a starting VOB-ID. This time we are using Nr: 3



    When the joining has finished, you will have a new set of VOB files named:
    VTS_01_1.VOB
    VTS_01_2.VOB
    VTS_01_3.VOB

    Now you simply can rename them to:
    VTS_01_5.VOB
    VTS_01_6.VOB
    VTS_01_7.VOB
    and move them to the same directory that is containing the Side A files.

    Now you just need to adjust the IFO file. You have got 2 options for that:

    1: Let IfoEdit create new IFO files for this title-set and you're done.

    2: Let IfoEdit correct the original IFO file with the new vob-file information.
    Since 7 VOB files are to large for a DVD-R, you will go to strip some streams out anyway. In that case the original IFO file gets automaticaly updated by IfoEdit.


    Lucky for you I had asked a similar question. Sorry, there are actually pictures on that page but hopefully not having them shouldn't hinder your progress too much.
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  9. try dvdshrink 3.0 beta1
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    hey mrbass

    what the 411

    on DVD Shrink 3.0
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    Read this guide..= http://users.skynet.be/contra/dvddouble.htm

    You must have TmpgEnc DVD Author to do this. This is the best software for what you want to do, because it's EASY to use.

    When you use DVD Shrink, use the RE-AUTHOR mode, BUT RETAIN the subtitles !

    Again.. this guide will help you to accomplish exactly what you want to do. I made a back up of GONE WITH THE WIND, (which is a 2 sided DVD and a 3 hour, 52 minutes long movie) onto ONE DVD, using this method.. had to shrink it down from almost 7.8 GIGS to 4.3 Gigs. But, it worked, and it ain't that difficult ~

    The resulting DVD video quality was AMAZINGLY GOOD.
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    sorry

    wrong topic.
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