TV-Series DVD-9 with 3-4 eps -> 1 DVD-R keeping menus: ho

[superfresko]

Hello everybody!

Is there somewhere a guide or something that explains how to backup on one single DVD-R a TV-Series DVD-9 with more than 1 episode keeping the menus (and maybe different audio tracks and subtitles)?

I looked in the guides section but couldn't find anything for TV Series... found only guides for one single movie backup.

Thanks for any help.

Bye,
Massi.

[dhluke]

There is a guide on www.doom9.org named "DVD9 to DVD5 Full back up". I forgot the url... Anyways -- you can use that method to back up a DVD with episodes. The process should be like this:

Rip each episode to its own folder.
Re-encode them to make them smaller on size.
Import on DVD Maestro and Compile.
Run IFOUpdate.

Sorry this isn't much help but it should give you an idea on how it should be done.

[proxima9]

After Ifoupdate can you split to 2DVDR instead of first reencoding to shrink the size? I assume you could just use ifoedit to split to two dvdR's?

[joepic]

Is there somewhere a guide or something that explains how to backup on one single DVD-R a TV-Series DVD-9 with more than 1 episode keeping the menus (and maybe different audio tracks and subtitles)?

Check out this forum for ideas on what is possible with multiple PGC's (TV series, workout sessions etc):
http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=140653

You will need to read the following MAESTRO guides to understand how to put it all together:

Spruce DVDMaestro
http://digital-forums.com/dvd2dvdr/intro.htm
http://www.fukrulez.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=11
http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/maestro.htm
http://www.doom9.org/mpg/maestro.htm
http://www.doom9.org/mpg/maestro2.htm
http://myweb.cableone.net/trilight/dvdguides/multipgc/default.htm