Is it possible to join two dvds(w/menu) to 1dvd(w/menu)??

[djone]

I have two dvds that have the same menu...and I want to join them together and put them in one dvd....Is this possible?... I have searched the forum but no one seems to specifically ask if they can keep the original Menu while still joining the two movies into one!! thanks, any help will be greatly appreciated,
dave

[Jimmykicker]

Check this:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=174540&highlight=

Pretty much the answer for you is that you will have to relink everything in the menu...

[noki]

no.

[wolv6769]

Yes you can, using TMPGEnc, but you have to create a simple menu to link to the two original menus.

See attached link:
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=200611&highlight=

I have personally never tried it, because the price of DVD+Rs has dropped and I rather just use two DVDs.

[djone]

thanks for all the replies...i will give it a try

[djone]

what about dvd2one??? i saw some info on its "seamless/nonseamless join" option...will this keep the menu...anyone know??? i checked out there website and it doesnt say anything about keeping the menu?

[petar]

I've been playing with this for quite a while, puting two movies with their original menus onto one. It can be done but it's very complicated. Depends on how complex the original DVD structure is. You may be lucky and have a DVD with only one VTS which doesn't reference the VMG at all in which case you can simply replace the VMG with your own one and put a title menu to jump to the VTS. Or you can be really unlucky and have a DVD where the main menu is in the VMG instead of the VTS. In this case you're better off demuxing everything (including the menus; you can do this with Vobrator) and author it from scratch.

If you really want to have a go at it, this is what you need to do. Get a piece of paper and a pen (or open a text file) and note down everything that happens (1) from the First-Play PGC to the VTS where the main menu is, (2) from there to the main menu and (3) from the main menu to the start of the movie. Use IfoEdit for the IFO commands (pre/post/cell) and MenuEdit for the VOB (button) commands. What you are mostly interested in is the values of the GPRM registers before the end of step (1) (2) and (3). If there are no jump/call commands to the VMG in step 2, you don't need that step.

Once you have it all noted down you can re-author. Replace the VMG with a new one (create one with DVD-Fab, for example) and in the first VMG PGC set all the GPRM registers to the values you got from step (1). At the end add a jump command to the VTS. Normally it's the root menu but can be any entry menu (angle, audio, subpicture or PTT) or the title entry PGC, it's one thing to check at the end of step (1)

Next you need to remove any jump/call commands from the VTS to the VMG from steps (2) and (3) but keep the structure the same. For example, say a PGC in the VTSM jumps to a VMG PGC. There it assigns GPRM1, 2 and jumps to VTS Audio menu. So you'll need to replace the original jump command in the VTSM with assign GPRM1, 2 and link to the Audio menu PGC. Once done play the DVD. If you get straight to the main menu and from the main menu to the movie after activating the "play movie" button, you've done OK.

You'll also need to double-check all buttons in the menu that start the movie because normally there's more than one (the audio menu and the subpicture menu often have a "play movie" button too) though they generally link to the same PGC.

Finally check the post commands of the movie PGC and modify them to whatever you want to happen after the movie is done playing (call the root menu, title menu or whatever).

If everything is working OK now you have a DVD with a VTS that doesn't reference the VMG. Do the same for the second DVD and you can create a new VMG with a title menu that can jump to each VTS. Link each button in the title menu to a new PGC in the VMG where you add all the commands from the test VMG you created from step 1.

All this assuming that the original DVDs have the main menu and the movie in the same VTS. Otherwise it gets even more complicated. Sometimes the producer complicates the structure (I assume on purpose probably to avoid re-authoring) and I've seen DVDs that had more than 100 PGCs in the VMG. Gave up half way through. It's cool to have two movies with their original menus on one DVDR but the effort and the time may not be worth it.

[Jimmykicker]

It's cool to have two movies with their original menus on one DVDR but the effort and the time may not be worth it.

Exactly what I decided...what I've been interested in for awhile is making a few edits in the movie and keeping the original menu -- so far haven't been able to do it so that it plays on every DVD player -- see post:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=185385&highlight=

[djone]

wow...i didnt realize it was so complicated...yeah ill prob play around with it for awhile but prob not spend too much time on it...thanks for all the info