Converting 2-Disk Sets to 1 Disk

[1337assassin]

hey, i was wondering if anyone could tell me how to convert a 2-Disk DVD set, like Lord of the Rings - Two Towers, on 2 DVD's, into 1 DVD, actually, its on the HDD, just into one Video_TS Folder, for continuous playback on a Stand-alone HDD Home Entertainment Media Player

as it sits, i have to close the movie after the first disk, then search for the 2nd disk..

are there any solutions?

thanks

[mr.webb]

DVD Shrink will do nicely, and it's free.
No recoding, no loss of quality.

[steptoe]

Yep, easiest is DVD Shrink

Its no longer updated, but will quite easily do what you are looking for, and runs on Win7 with no issues, and its 100% freeware

Just click the reauthor button and add the main title from disk one, then add the main title from disk two

Click 'BackUp' and choose to create the files in a hard disk folder and let it do its job

[jman98]

DVD Shrink will do nicely, and it's free.
No recoding, no loss of quality.

This is not correct. While you can use DVDShrink for this purpose, it certainly will cause a loss of quality to convert 2 DVDs into 1.

[neomaine]

The OP thread title is a little off. He's got the two disks already ripped to the HD and wan'ts to combine the two VIDEO_TS folders into one for continous playback. Now, if they actual want to author a new DVD with just one continous movie...

[1337assassin]

right, sorry for the confusion.. i dont actually want another dvd, the title of the thread should actually read "to 1 VIDEO_TS folder" rather than to 1 DVD

i am keeping all additional information, so the DVD on the HDD media player is in a Video_TS folder, in another folder with the name of the movie in it

in the case of 2 disk movies, the top folder has the name of the movie, then there are 2 folders within that, each named 'Disk 1' and 'Disk 2', respectively.

and I would like to find a method of playing both movies one after another, whilst keeping all of the DVD info, menus, chapters, previews, extras, etc, all in tact.

is there anyone familiar with HDD Systems that knows a way to name the two folders properly to get them to play one after the other, or arrange them somehow, or alter then somehow?

thanks

[neomaine]

Ahhhh.... Your requirements are changing. How would you expect to keep the same menus from two seperate DVDs? That isn't going to happen. The best you could do would be to combine them, movie only, with DVDShrink as suggested but re-auther them with your own menus and chapters. There my be some way to re-author combining the two but that is both out of my league and what I would consider in effort in futility.

You can do the above creating a new movie with its own chapters while keeping the original folders. While not in the same folder it would give you a continous movie and allow you to keep the extras. The same, just different.

Or, get the single disk BR version...

[1337assassin]

Ahhhh.... Your requirements are changing. How would you expect to keep the same menus from two seperate DVDs? That isn't going to happen. The best you could do would be to combine them, movie only, with DVDShrink as suggested but re-auther them with your own menus and chapters. There my be some way to re-author combining the two but that is both out of my league and what I would consider in effort in futility.

You can do the above creating a new movie with its own chapters while keeping the original folders. While not in the same folder it would give you a continous movie and allow you to keep the extras. The same, just different.

Or, get the single disk BR version...

ok thanks, not really what im looking for though..

there's got to be a normal solution.. i think it is related to folder placement and naming of the folders

for example, create a top folder, and inside that are two VIDEO_TS folders, with the name slightly adjusted, and you can either add a text file into the same top folder to assign a play order, or the naming itself would begin the proper play sequence

something along those lines, from within the Media Player.

while i dont mind buying repeats for some movies, like transformers, ironman, King Kong, Planet Earth, etc.. i dont want to buy repeats of many others on blu-ray

i also have many 3 or 5 disk sets, such as Planet Earth, I have that on 5 BluRay Disks, and i would like to know how to arrange those 5 to play consecutively, right now each disk is in a folder named "disk 1" etc, inside a top folder named Planet Earth.

just wondering how to get continuous playback of all items within a certain folder

the "Play folder" function only works if that folder contains a "Video_TS" folder, or a video file

[neomaine]

I think the best you could do then would be to use a player that could cue them up and then have them automatically play. Like creating a playlist for songs.

For instance select both folders with the same open. I don't think you'll find an easy, or even a moderately difficult, way of doing what you'd like.

[marioval]

What about this?

http://www.thepcaddict.com/dvdremake/importingdvdsandediting/index.htm

[hech54]

There used to be a great guide on how to do this properly called:
JOINING VOBS USING VOBEDIT AND IFOEDIT....but I just tried the link I had for this guide and Firefox got timed out.

[hech54]

I don't know if this is going to work but I have the guide saved to my computer. Download it here:
http://www.zshare.net/download/81852538eb10eaef/

[hech54]

This is one of jimmalenko's guides.

[1337assassin]

thanks.. i could see it.. it showed me a tutorial on DVDReMake.. i'm looking into that now.. it says its able to combine two DVD's with original working menus.. sounds amazing

[1337assassin]

HERE is the Tutorial on that site..

[1337assassin]

I believe it creates a new top menu over both menus, which you select from to enter either one or the other's menu

then i will see if you can jump back to it from the root menu key, and select the second menu..

may have to also look into customizing the menu to see if theres a way to play the second after he first, or what...

[1337assassin]

but it may in fact serve the same purpose as putting cover art in the top folder, and then again in each of disk 1 and disk 2, if you cannot return to the top menu from the root menu button.

[hech54]

thanks.. i could see it.. it showed me a tutorial on DVDReMake..

None of my links showed you that...no.

[1337assassin]

None of my links showed you that...no.

my mistake.. that was marioval.. my bad.. urs was a download.. i will check it later.. thanks