IFOedit Help-- Splitting dvd9 to dvd-r

[jbombs16]

I am trying to split Scarface onto 2 discs and i get everything to work but when i try to burn, it says it cant realocate my files. I followed the guide on here for IFOEDIT and i followed it correctly. I am kinda confused on the VTS correction feature. When do I do this and HOW?? Do I open ONE ifo file and hit the VTS button? i did that for scarface after i got the burn error and I still got the same error when i try to burn again. I also tried opening it in DVDdhrink and it says i am missing a VOB file that whouldnt be there anyways. It is one from the original rip of the movie so i dont know why it would be needing that since i split it. i hope this isnt confusing...

any suggestions???

I followed this guide when splitting....

https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?link=248

please help me if you can... thanks

[jimmalenko]

go here and follow the split to 2 DVDRs method.

[dafreak]

or you could just use dvdfab to split the disk in two.

[jbombs16]

can someone please help me out? I am still stuck.


thanks

[wulf109]

If the movie has 8 vob's put the first four in one directory and the second four in a separate directory. Renumber each directory VTS_01_1.VOB,etc.
Then use IFOEDIT to create ifo's. I did this with the LOTR movies and it works.

[weaselguy]

i assume you're trying to back up the first disc of the scarface anniversary edition. i have no idea about splitting it into two disks but here a suggestion if you want to back it up to 1 disc. remove the dts audio since its about 1gig in size, and just keep the dolby digital 5.1 audio. i did this and the size dropped to around 6.6 gigs or so. backed it up with IC8 and its looks damn good, couldnt tell the difference at all. second disc was single layer so it was no problem.

[jimmalenko]

can someone please help me out? I am still stuck.

I should have been more specific when

go here and follow the split to 2 DVDRs method.

The run down is this:

The idea to split a DVD is, to catch the layer-break point of the original DVD, and split the movie right at this point into 2 parts, by preserving the original Menu. IfoEdit will help you very much in realising this splitting stuff.

First rip the original DVD completly to your HD. If you need help at this step, refer to the ripping guide. Now you should have a directory on your HD with all IFO, BUP and VOB files in it.

Now let us prepair two directorys for our final DVD-R's. Go to a drive where you have enough free disc space and create 2 directorys. I'll name them Disc1 and Disc2 in a folder named ToBurn. For a better handling later, I'll also create a directory 'VIDEO_TS' in both new folders.

The main movie is located in the VOB files VTS_02_x.xxx, so double click in Explorer on VTS_02_0.IFO or open the file within IfoEdit. We just want to split the DVD. We do no stripping or remuxing or so.

So simply select the menu 'VOB Extras -> Split to 2 DVD-Rs'. All options are already preset perfeclty. All we have to do, is to specify the 2 destination directorys. Great. Everything is now preset. Lets press 'OK'.

A new dialog apears, where all Chapters/Cells are listed of the current Title-Set. Here we have to select the Cell, at which we want to split the movie. The Cell where the layer-break is located is already preselected by IfoEdit. If you don't like it, select another cell of your choice. Otherwise hit the button 'Split it'.

IfoEdit reads now all Cells from the original VOB files, and writes them into our 'Disc1' directory, until it reaches the cell, that we've selected to break the movie. IfoEdit creates in both directories a new VOB file-set, that is beginning with VTS_02_1.VOB in both directorys. So we don't need any kind of fake VOB files.

When the splitting is done, IfoEdit continues with correcting vob-unit pointers in the vob files. First it corrects the vob-files of Disc2, and at last of Disc1. When this is finished, IfoEdit creates the IFO files in both destination directorys, and corrects all pointers and chapter information in the IFO file.

Before editing enything else with IfoEdit, you should close IfoEdit now, and restart it. The Menu-files will be missing. You must copy VIDEO_TS.IFO, VIDEO_TS.BUP and VIDEO_TS.VOB manually to both destination directories. Also it is required, that the DVD should have a Title Set 1. So you must copy VTS_01_x.xxx too, but you can leave the VTS_01_x.VOBs away, except for the Menu-VOB.

If you select now the VTS_02_0.IFO from 'Disc1' in IfoEdit-Treeview, and hit the 'DVD Play' button, it will perfectly playback your Disc1-DVD.
You can check the same for the second disc2 by selecting the other IFO file in the IfoEdit-Treeview.

Now just move the other extras-files from the original DVD, to any of the destination discs, where you would like to have them.

Now, we've got a little problem. The number of chapters in the file VTS_02_0.IFO is correct. It has been corrected by IfoEdit.
But it is not correct in VIDEO_TS.IFO ! We have to adjust that manually.
So open the file VIDEO_TS.IFO from your 'Disc1' folder with IfoEdit:
To know how much Chapters are in Titleset Nr. 2, open VTS_02_0.IFO too:

Okay, we've got 5 chapters on Disc1, so lets edit VIDEO_TS.IFO:
As you can see, the Title Set Nr 2 (VTS_02_x.xxx) is Title 1 in VIDEO_TS.IFO.
So we must edit the chapters of Title 1. Go into the table VMG_PTT_SRPT and scroll down to 'Title_1: Number of chapters'. It still containes 28 chapters, but we've got only 5. Double click that line, and enter 5.

That's it! Save this IFO file now, and repeat the same steps for Disc2. Now, close IfoEdit, and start it again, to do a 'Get VTS Sectors' on both disc-folders.

You are now ready to burn your two DVD-R's.

My own method is slightly different to the above in that I strip out any unnecessary streams using IFOEdit, which transfoms any titleset into VTS_01. Then use Split to 2 DVD-Rs as well as Create VIDEO_TS and VTS_01 IFOs.


If this is too hard for you to follow, use Weaselguy's suggestion and shrink it !