DVDauthor -- Multiple VTS from CLI

[VirtualDoobMon]

I have 10 folders with about 99 vobs and they're about 1.2G each (HDD Cam) ..
i can convert them from MOD to VOB/MPG -- not a problem.

Here's the command i'm running for dvdauthor in each folder:
for %i in (*.vob) do dvdauthor -t %i -o C:\TEST

This creates 99 VTS titles in my C:\test folder
(VTS_01_01 , VTS_02 _01 up to VTS_99_01)

I then go to my next folder (with another 99 titiles) run the
same command and here's where i'm stuck. See the problem? dvdauthor
just overrides the 99 titles

I have tried copy/b *.vob video1.vob (in each folder) to create single Vobs but dvdauthor doesn't like them, so i then demux and remux with ffmpeg...works..but the whole process is very time consuming...

Another approach i tried was batchdemux everything in one folder, use muxman to author each folder, use dvdshink to reauthor them all onto a DL

.. can i just add a command to my script above to specify VTS 1 for all vobs in folder 'A' then VTS 2 for folder 'B', VTS 3 next folder and so on ?

If i can, then i can just create the TOC and burn.

Thanks for any tips!

Cheers

[borax]

1. A DVD may have only 99 titles (DVD spec problem).
Therefore you need to join the files (and maybe create chapters for these 99) before authoring. I don't know a program which would join the vob files with correct timing without the demux/remux step. But maybe you could do this easier:
ProjecX can demux/join/clean the vob files in the folders (then you would have one m2v and one mp2 or ac3 file for each folder). These could be muxed with mplex and authored by dvdauthor or muxed and authored in one step with muxman. If a size reduction is necessary, requant can be used for the demuxed m2v files from the command line before authoring.

[johns0]

TMPGEnc DVD Author will join the vobs.

[VirtualDoobMon]

This seems to works without any errors (audio pts errors) so i guess try it out on a few folders tonight.

copy /b *.mod video.mod & ffmpeg -i video.mod -vcodec copy video.m2v -acodec copy audio.ac3 & mplex -f 8 -o movie.vob video.m2v audio.ac3 & dvdauthor -t movie.vob -o DVD

Thanks.