Combining multiple Titles into 1 (re-authoring a dvd)

[spyhawk]

Combining multiple titles into 1 is very easy with DvdReMake Pro, assuming the titles have the same video/audio/sub attributes. No need to demux and remux at all. All you do is copy the source PGC and append to the destination PGC. Then add the new chapters for the appended PGC.

[fung0]

[quote="gll99"]

So it's an authoring decision by DLP and the resulting disc should play with the transitions being as smooth as any authored disc except that the timeline will show the individual PGC's as you discovered.

Nice to have someone corroborate what I've been saying! And, as you say, the resulting disc does seem to play just fine. It's more of an irritation than anything.

One thing that is encouraging: although I loaded 2 videos on the timeline the "fail" log shows only one title with 2 videos. Normally the log says there are 2 or 3 titles when I compile using movie1, movie2 etc... instead of the Multi-PGC title option.

Thanks for your instructions on this... I'll have to try playing around with it myself.

[fung0]

Combining multiple titles into 1 is very easy with DvdReMake Pro

Thanks! I'll have to give this software a try.

[Alex_ander]

I had DVDs with such VOB behaviour from collectors on the internet, they all came from standalone recorder. Those VOBs had still pictures inserted (they looked like typical menu pages with recorder's logo, I guess DVD recorder adds them for session searching; they were invisible at playback). This caused time-code division between the parts of video. I cut off those still frames in VideoReDo, then joined the clips. After this there were no reasons for any player or authoring application to treat the video as separate clips with their own time codes.
If you are planning to do it with DVDRemake (without re-authoring), possibly you will be able to cut the stills off ('cut to here' or 'cut from here' options) or remove them if they are separate blocks.