2 DVDs movie to 4 svcds

[LdSr]

Hi there,
I don't know if this issue has been addressed before, but I used the search function and came up nothing.
Ok, I have this movie and it's 190 minutes long, so it comes on 2 dvds.
Now, the first dvd has 166 minutes of movie and the second has 74 minutes of movie. Therefore, if I rip and convert them, I have to use 5 cds. First dvd > 3 cds. Second > 2 cds. If I do that, it would be a waste because the 3rd cd is only half full and the 5th cd is also only half full.
What I want to know is there any way combine the 2 dvds and convert so they fit on 4 svcds. By the way, I'm using DVD2SVCD 1.0.9 b3.

Thanks in advance!

P.S. I want to keep my avg bitrate above 2000.

[Movman]

Try Smartripper. I think in the settings section you can say combine the two DVD´s.

I also use DVD2SVCD but the DVD- Rip section is not so good as well.

[LdSr]

Ok. I'll give it a try now.

Edit: There is no such function.

[LdSr]

Anyone else got any idea?

[poopyhead]

well, here's wut i did w/ the godfathers (some of which are also on 2 DVDs)

i'm also assuming u use dvd2avi to frameserve.

what you can do is take the vobs of the 2nd DVD and change the name to the vobs following the first DVD. (i.e. if the last vob on the first DVD is vts_01_5.vob, then you can name the first vob on the second DVD as vts_01_6.vob) this way you can string all the vobs from the 2 DVDs together when making your .d2v project file in dvd2avi to frameserve into tmpgenc.

keep in mind there are couple limitations:
1) greatest # of vobs can be linked is 9 (i.e. from vts_01_1.vob to vts_01_9.vob) if you have more vobs, you have to encode them separately. so you need to figure out how to divide up the vobs so that you don't waste an extra CD-R
2) tmpgenc can't handle .wav files beyond a certain point. i'm not exactly sure, but if the .wav file gets too big, tmpgenc won't work with it (i.e. the .wav file created from titanic was too big for tmpgenc to handle, so i had to encode titanic in two separate parts)

[LdSr]

Cool, it works. Thanks