1 DVD movie spanned to 2 disks? Is this possible?

[kethnaab]

I have been burning with DVDShrink and DVD Decrypt. Pretty awesome stuff to say the least, and you can't beat the price.

What I'd like to do would be to take extremely large movies on 1 DVD, like Braveheart, and instead of compressing them 50%, have the burn span 2 DVDs.

Is this possible? If there is an FAQ on this that I missed, my apologies, kindly point me there, but I didn't see this exact topic covered, and i don't know NEARLY enough about the burning process and whatnot to figure this out on my own.

thanks!

[jyn999]

Do you want to maintain full DVD functionality (menus, chapters, and extras) or just the movie?

For full DVD functionality, try to get a copy of the defunct DVDXCopy program. It doesn't do decryption, compression, or transcoding but it can reallocate your .VOB files across 2 DVDs.

[guns1inger]

Actually, the version prior to the court case that killed 321Studios did all that - that was why they were killed off (that and the fact that their software could destroy your machine if you were unlucky.

If you want to keep everything intact, look at DVD Remake. If you are happy with just the main movie, DVD Shrink will do it nicely. Go into reauthor mode, load up the main title, then right click and choose set start end points. Change the end point to about halfway (or somewhere suitable, action wise) and burn this off to disk one. Repeat, this time resetting the end point and creating a new start point. Burn this off and you have disk two.

You don't get any of the niceties like a "Please change disk" screen, but it works.

[fourthquark]

guns1inger said:

Actually, the version prior to the court case that killed 321Studios did all that - that was why they were killed off

Do you know what version number that was?

[bugster]

Take a look at DVDFab, that will do what you want.

[wholetthecatsout]

I ‘m having trouble with DVDFab (the free version).

I have followed the instructions on the guides (as posted on various sites from links in a number of places on this website).

(I’ve tried this with 4 or 5 different DVDs and had the same problem each time)

Anyway, from DVDFab, it creates the DVDFAB\ DISC 1 & DISC 2 subdirectories with all of the files. It appears to have successfully completed.

Now, I’m ready to burn, so I tried DVDshrink (to create an .ISO file to burn).
For the DISC 1 directory:
DVDShrink gives me an error message indicating invalid data in one of the VOB files. From some probing, I find that the VOB file it blows up on is the “Insert DISC 2” message that DVDFab inserts. (In DVDFAB I have even tried using the different message option files that they have).
I tried opening this in DVDclone as well. When it gets to the end of the main title in the preview – it has an error message (can’t remember the exact syntax, but something about invalid data – surely the same problem that DVDShrink encounters).

DVDShrink can not open the DISC 2 directory either. Different message, missing files or something like that. CloneDVD displays only an error message in the preview panel for the second disk.

I’ve tried this using the set vectors also (from DVDFAB) but it does the same thing.


Any ideas?

[MJDore]

I'm with guns1inger on this one. DVD Remake is the way to go. You can't beat it for ease of use and user support. Not a bad price, either, for what you get.

[wholetthecatsout]

Maybe I'll try that one.

I've used DVDShrink quite a bit. Mostly for backing up just the movie.
If the main movie is too big to fit on one disk without a massive compression, then I would split it to 2 disks, and then I figure, well - if I'm going to uses 2 disks, I may as well take the menus and extras as well.

So, I tried CloneDVD, but I don't think I want to pay that much for it. It's okay, but I want to try some others. DVDFab sounded good, splits it all for you and the price sounded good (free) (haven't tried the trial version).

[nelson133]

I have used the free version of dvdfab with good results, but the output needs to be burned as is with a program such as nero or recordnow or such. Some copy programs won't copy the resulting dvds and I don't know why. You do get the extras and whatever part of the movie that will fit on the first disk and the rest of the movie on the second. you could break down and buy the latest pay version, which is supposed to have a number of improvements. Dvdfab can also create ifo files if you need them. Nyah Levi