I dreamed up an elaborate but highly effective and high-quality method for joining a 2-disk movie or flipper to one disk. This is a main movie and main audio only method, as that is all I am interested in backing up. So far I have used it successfully on The GodFather Part II and Goodfellas, this weekend I will be trying it on LOTR:TTT Extended Version.
First thing, I demux the main movie and main audio from each disk with DVD Decrypter. I then import each into a DVD Maestro project, and add both M2V files in order to the movie. Then, create a synch audio track from the 2 AC3 files. Export the video to one M2V file and reencode to my desired size with CCE. In the case of Godfather 2, the project was 12 gig. I used a 5-pass re-encode because I would be lowering the file size by two-thirds and wanted the best quality possible. On my Athlon XP2500 a 5 pass took 5 hours. Not too bad, considering. Replace the M2V files with the re-encoded one.
I get the chapters for movie one with ChapterXtracter. I then calculate how long in milliseconds movie one is, enter that as my offset, and get the chapters for movie two. Copy and paste the chapter lists together. Then import the chapters into Maestro.
Compile, burn, and play. Voila!
If anyone has anything to add, any comments or questions, fire away.
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Why not load both discs into TMPGENC dvd author and just create one disc from that. Then, feed those files into dvd shrink and shrink away...
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Or why not just rip both discs to seperate harddrives, then use DVD2ONE to join the 2 discs together as 1 disc then burn using your favorite software.
Quick fast and Simple.I Have Always Been Here
Toshiba Regza 37Z3030D, Toshiba HD XE1 + EP-10 ( Both Multiregioned), Samsung BD-P1500 Blu Ray. OPPO DV-983H -
Is there a program I use to use to make menus that can support 2 audio tracks and subtitles. I tried TMPGenc author to make some simple menus for when I want to join 2 DVDs into 1 DVD-R but it can only support 1 audio and no subtiltes.
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You can also do all this with shrink. Just rip one disk to the HD and then combine both as part of ripping the second disk.
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Ripping both Discs to the same Harddrive but into seperate folders is an option as well, they only thing wrong with it in my case was when i was joining both discs was it would take far too long to join them together.
So as i've got more than 1 harddrive i rip it to seperate drives then used DVD2ONE to join them.
I also tried DVDShrink, but when i burnt the VOB's to disc and played it in my DVD Player there was a pause where the 2 discs had been joined.
But with DVD2ONE there is no pause.I Have Always Been Here
Toshiba Regza 37Z3030D, Toshiba HD XE1 + EP-10 ( Both Multiregioned), Samsung BD-P1500 Blu Ray. OPPO DV-983H
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