two or more FULL DVDs on one disc?

[Neminat0R]

Lets forget about quality for now, but how can I put two "as orignal" DVDs onto one disc? I want to have a simple menu that comes up and says "movie A" and "movie B" after you select one, the disc plays as if it was the orignal, with menus, intro features etc....

Now I know I can use Tmpgenc DVD to take two RIPS onto the same disc (very easy tbh) but as ive said I want menus and stuff and Tmpgenc DVD does not allow this.

With DL DVDs out soon I would like to start backing up two 4.7GB films onto the once disc and again would need some type of selection menu.

I am not interested in doing DVD rips, I want full discs, obviously encoded.

[Gazorgan]

2 full movies is a LOT for a single DVDR in full res. It's cake if you re-encode them to 1/2D1. DVDShrink (re-Author, main movie only) and TMPG Author combination will do it with a simple menu. Just do a custom target size of say 2 GB each.

What you want? Hehehehe, not a chance. The full menu's will drive you nuts.

[jarvis1781]

2 full movies is a LOT for a single DVDR in full res. It's cake if you re-encode them to 1/2D1. DVDShrink (re-Author, main movie only) and TMPG Author combination will do it with a simple menu. Just do a custom target size of say 2 GB each.

What you want? Hehehehe, not a chance. The full menu's will drive you nuts.

he was talking about when dual-layer discs come out.
then he can keep the same quality he has now and get 2 movies on one disc

as for what he was trying to accomplish, i think you are right...there isnt a way that i can see to make a menu to select movie A or B and then have it play as if it were an original DVD

[dafreak]

actually you can make menus using tmpgenc dvd author.


this is what i would do.
rip each movie into separate folders onto your hd. rip just the movie only.
-import each movie into tmpgenc dvd author as a separate track
-create your menus, etc.
-output the files into another folder on your hd, ignoring the message that the files are too big.
-import your files into dvdshrink and shrink to fit onto one dvd-r

[GbMedusa]

Unless I misunderstood, he is not trying to reauthor the discs but to use the original structures. This can not be done in TMPGEnc DVD Author as it can not import structure (menus in particular), only content.

Unless there is some means of doing an Autoplay-style frontend on DVD, I would doubt this could be done easily.

[Phil Thomas]

Yep .... reauthoring with new front end menus to choose each movie scene selections & extras, seems to be the best compromise.

Keeping all the original menus for each movie would be a nightmare to achieve. The stucture would be untrue.

[Neminat0R]

How about this. Root of dvd has a VIDEO_TS file that points to VIDEO_TS_A in FOLDER A and VIDEO_TS_B in FOLDER B all rename all files with either a A or B as needed and then ifoedit to mess with the files that point to these As or Bs?

[GbMedusa]

Just thinking about that makes my ears bleed.

[Neminat0R]

Suppose as DL DVDs get closer a program like DVD2one or Shrink, or even an entirely new program will support this. Hopefully.

[mikk]

sorry to dig up this old post, but i noticed that dvd-lab 1.4 beta 1 has a thing called vmg menus and allows you to import a 2nd vts title set onto a dvd. perhaps this may help bring us closer to a solution.

[jimmalenko]

I doubt it. All main menus are contained within VIDEO_TS.VOB for any DVD that has any extras in it. The only way you could possibly do this is with two DVDs that are movie only and only have menus in VTS_01_0.VOB.

The funny thing is, if you were really just "backing them up" you would probably just shrink the entire discs and burn them as data to a DL disc. Why would they need to be playable when you could just burn a new one from this if your original stuffed up ?