Copy DVD with menu to DVD without menu-- quickly?

[TwistedLincoln]

I recently purchased a standalone DVD burner, which I use to create DVD's from my home videos. For some reason, it will not allow me to create a DVD with no menus that automatically plays the video. Instead, it creates a menu with two choices-- the video itself, and "empty title."

This looks fairly bad, so I thought I'd use my PC to edit out the menu and re-burn the DVD. This has proven a bit more difficult than I had hoped. While I know I can de-multiplex the vobs and then re-author the disc, this takes forever.

Is there any quick way to strip out the menu and make the disc autoplay the movie? I tried ripping the vobs using them to author a new disc with DVD-Lab, but it insists on de-multiplexing and then multiplexing them when it comes time to compile the DVD. Again, this takes forever. Is there a better way to do this?

[tekkieman]

What about DVD Shrink movie only?

[TwistedLincoln]

I hadn't thought of that... I guess I have a habit of thinking that DVD Shrink is only good for, well... shrinking...

Thanks for the tip-- I'll see how that works.

[jimmalenko]

DVDShrink in reauthor mode is IMO the quickest and probably the easiest way.

If you want an alternative (why I don't know, because you can I guess?), rip just the main movie VOBs (probably VTS_01_1.VOB -> VTS_01_5.VOB maybe?) to you hard drive then use IFOEdit to recreate the IFOs and BUPs so that the main movie plays automatically on insert.

Just as an alternative method ...

[TwistedLincoln]

I just tried the DVD Shrink procedure-- it works flawlessly, and in less than 10 minutes per disc. Thanks again-- now I won't have to stay up past 2am for the second night in a row working on this project...

As for the alternative method, I may try that just for fun sometime...