2 or 3 TV-Series DVDs in 1 DVD-R: Help!

[superfresko]

Hello everybody!

I'm a newbie, and I've read many guides and tutorials, but couldn't find what I'm looking for.

There is this TV Series I like very much on PAL DVD, with 2 eps per DVD (sometimes 3).

Now I'm converting each ep in CVD with DVD2SVCD, following Bakers guide, because with the settings I'm using (resolution Half-DVD, audio 48Kb) the MPEG file on the disk should be DVD compliant and I should be able to drag the file of the CVD in the DVD creation program and everything should work fine.

Video on TV looks great and I'm satisfied with it, but this way I'm losing the 5.1 audio, having only a stereo sound.

So, my question is: is there a way to downsize the eps to Half-DVD resolution and put 4, 5 or even 6 eps on a single DVD-R?

I'm not interested in complicated menus and extras. I would just have the eps on the DVD-Rs, with a single initial menu that lets me choose wich episode watch.

Once I tried TMPGEnc with DVD2AVI using the wizard to create a Half-DVD file, but the resulting MPEG file looked horrible (I'm afraid I messed up with some settings).

Once I read a thread about fitting TNG DVDs on DVD-Rs preserving all menus and extras. That's not what I want to do, beacause I'd like to take 2 eps from one DVD, 2 eps from another DVD (and hopefully even 1 or 2 more eps from another DVD), downsize them preserving the 5.1 audio track and put all of them on a single DVD-R.

Will someone help me? Is there a guide somewhere? I looked in the guides, but only found how to put a movie on a DVD-R or how to convert VCD/SVCD to DVD.

Thankyou SO much!

Bye bye,
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[wulf109]

http://mpucoder.kewlhair.com/derrow/index.html

I think the above web site has the software and guides you need.

Using Tmpeg and Spruceup to aythor you could down code and preserve the 5.1 ab3 sound also.