3 layer 2 disk to 2 dvdr problems w/ ifoedit

[vampirexxi]

I'm trying to copy frank herbert's dune and put it on 2 disks, b/c it's 265 minutes. i want about 130 minutes on each disk, figured i could compress enough w/ dvd2one to do exactly that - split the movie on 2 disks.

if i use dvdxcopy, it will split it to 3 disks b/c the first disk is 2 layer and has 8 vob files worth of movie. the 2nd disk has only 4 vob files of movie.

i figured i could put the 12 vob files together then split it to 2 disks? i can't seem to do it, and i think there may be an easier way. here's what i'm doing:

1. extracting both disks d1 has 8 vob, and d2 has 4 vob.

2. delete ifo and bup files.

3. renamed the d2 vob files to VOB_01_04 through VOB_01_07

4. renamed the last 3 d1 vob files to VOB_01_01 through VOB_01_03 and put them in with disk 2's vobs

5. so now i have 7 sequentially numbered vob files in the folder (one thing i might mention is that vob 3 is only 800mb.)

6. i open ifoedit 0.91 and click on create ifos. selecting vob_01_01 as my first file. (this is the vob from the first disk)

7. after the 4 files are created, i close the program, reopen ifoedit, then click on get vts sectors. (i've also tried w/ this step omitted)

8. i open up my ifo file in powerdvd and the movie starts off at vob_01_04, the original start of disk 2. it's totally ignoring the fact that the other 3 vob files are in front of it.

9. it would be at this step that i would open ifoedit again, selecting the ifo, and clicking on vob extras. now that leaves me with a new set of vob files that when viewed indibidually work just fine, but again, the ifo file created for the new set ignores the parts from the 1st disk.

10. i even tried get vts sectors on the ifo created in part 9, but with the same outcome.

so does anybody have any idea how to fix this? i know people can add vob files on the end, but has anybody tried adding vob files to the front?

do i have to demux every vob so they are all small, then make them into 2gig files? something like that?

i've tried searching the forums and no luck.

[Gazorgan]

Prior post today goes over the same issue. VOB limit is 10 (that's in theory 9+ GB). Try ripping to 2 GB VOB's or only 2 VOB's ( 1/disk ).

[vampirexxi]

after ripping into 2gig vobs, i realized this movie was actually a miniseries (totally forgot, 3 episodes, 2 hrs each on sci-fi channel)

i ripped the 2 episodes from disk 1 and the final episode from disk 3 w/ no problem in 2 gig sizes w/ no problem.

now i just have to decide if i should just put on 3 disks, or try to use dvd2one for the first 2 episodes and just put the 3rd on on a 2nd disk.

thanks for that idea of 2 gigs, now i'll play around w/ it more.

[vampirexxi]

i figured i would just try putting all 265 min on one disk and see what the quality looked like.

so i ended up with 6 vob files, 2 for each episode

when i put them in the same folder, and numbered them sequentially, ifoedit created an ifo that was wrong

it put the "movie" in this order: ep1, ep3, ep2, then the first 2 chapters to ep2 at the end.

ep1 and 2 came from disk 1
ep 2 came from disk 2

when viewing the ifo in ifoedit, (where each break is, and lba is), the chapters correlate with the movie in the order i said above, but look like this:

1/1
1/2
1/3
...
1/19
1/1
1/2
...
1/25
2/1
2/3
2/4
...
2/22

i take it each is a chapter break (where you hit next on your controller)
1/25 and 2/22 are from disk 1.

why isn't ifoedit putting the movie in the order i put it in (ep 1-3)?????