Making a mixed DVD?

[mrcabdrv]

I'm wondering what would be the easiest way to make a mixed video DVD?

ie; I have many diff music video DVD's and would like to make a best of

- I have DVD Shrink, Smartripper and would like to author the compliation (preferrably with TMPGENC DVD) after ripping each music video

[andkiich]

I'd rip the pieces I want with Re-Author mode in DVDShrink, then finish it up with TMPGEN DVD Author.

[kensig]

DVD Shrink is all you need. You need at least Version 3.0 Beta 5. This amazing free software has just been updated to version 3.1 and as I write, the author is working on V3.2. There are guides available and an extensive record of previous posts on this subject on this site.

You reauthor your "selective burn" by taking the chapters (or parts of chapters) and combining them into a single DVD (in any order that you want!). Since many great music DVDs are loaded with anything from stupid FBI warning screens, studio avertisements, talk, boring interviews etc., this is your way to make a DVD that will play exactly the way that you want it. You select only the audio soundtrack that you want (you only need the Dolby 5.1) when you reauthor and when you play you the created disk, you can forget about menus and watch exactly what you want, the way you want it.

This is the way that I watch all DVD music these days. I cannot stand that way that the commercial DVDs are authored. It takes almost 5 minutes just to get the first song playing with the selected soundtrack. The stupid screens up front have all the remote control skip options turned off so you are forced to watch them.

Check out the guides and follow the buzz with the new updates.

Hats off to DVDShrink (the software author), ddlooping, mrbass and all the folks that contribute to this great software product! DVDShrink blows away all the competition in the selective burn area.

[mrcabdrv]

Right on, thanks for the suggestions guys. I didn't think TMPGENC DVD Auth took in VOB files, but now I see that it does if you choose "All Files"

[oldfart13]

Womble Video Mpeg Wizard will allow you to select scenes from a DVD, copy them to a timeline and save them as the same DVD format or convert them to VCD or SVCD. Quite simple. I'm using it as I write this to convert some DVD-Rs from my Panasonic E80 to VCDs to be uploaded to Usenet. Quite handy that...

[mrcabdrv]

I've read the suggestions and tried my hand at making a mixed DVD. I ripped/selected what I want from each disk using DVD Shrink.

- I only chose one audio stream (like it specifies in Baldrick's new guide). I've tried TMGPENC DVD Auth and it claims there's no audio (but there is in PowerDVD).

- I've read that TMPGENC DVD Auth doesn't support AC3 without messing around with audio conversion.

- Rather than using TMPGENC I thought I'd import my VOB's into DVDLab which seemed to be accepting the files no problem (a &v)

- After hours of ripping/menu creation/compiling (dvd srink & dvdlab) I find that the disc reads and plays in my JVC XV-N44 player but has no audio on any of the DVD ripped files, despite changing my DVD setup for audio or switching between Coax or Analog.

- I did have a small handful of "non-compliant" files (352x240, 48khz) that both the a/v DO work in my player. The whole disc (dvd rips and non-compliant files) all read fine on my PC, so the audio is there and burnt.

Any ideas guys? Thanks in advance.

[oldfart13]

Stuff you may have DLed from the net or other sources could be in a lot of different codecs so you mighthave problems converting them. TMPGEnc DVD Author accepts AC-3 sound. If it didn't, I could not use it to make DVDs from my Panasonic E80 DVD recorder and DVD-RAM discs. The resulting files play with full audio on my 7 DVD players...