Going from 2 DVD-R's to one

[Airjrdn]

Ok, I bought DVDXCopy. I used to to copy a DVD that ended up as two DVD-R's. How can I use the 2 DVD-R's, as my source, and produce one "compressed" DVD-R?

[MackemX]

http://ifoedit.wh.fr0zen.com/joinclip.html

movie only though

[nd4speed]

This works for me with most movies but the longer ones require some reencoding.

1. Use DVDxcopy 1.4 to rip only the main title leaving all extras off (if you want them it will be harder to make everything fit) and increase your split point as to create the largest file size for Disk 1.

2. When prompted to Burn go to your hard drive and rename the "DVDXCOPY" folder where the files were ripped to. Skip to Disc 2 and rip it after you have removed all the extras if you choose. Rename "DVDXCOPY" folder.

3. Use DVDshrink 1.03 to reauthor both the VIDEO_TS.ifo files you created from Disk 1 & 2 to seperate folders removing laguages, notes, subs,... and to crop off "Insert Disk 2" ,credits and intro (becareful not to crop intro into chapter 2 -i.e. movie "Signs" or chapt. 1 plays twice) .OR maybe re-encode to fit both, but I don't know if it works.

I open two dvdshrink windows to compare DVD output sizes to be less than or equal to 4.38GB. Sometimes you only have to reencode the second disk.

4. Go to the folder you where you DVDshrank disk 1 and look at the .VOB files. They usually look like this "VTS_01_1.VOB" then "VTS_01_2.VOB" and so on. Look for the highest numbered .vob file (usually like four or five but not always) and remember this number. Delete all the other files that are not .vob files.

5. Go to the folder where you DVDshrank disk 2. Rename all the .vob files to be numbered higher than the number you were to remember in step 4. Say the highest .vob from dvdshrank disk 1 was VTS_01_5.VOB then you would rename in sequential order the .vobs from disk 2 starting by renaming to VTS_01_6.VOB.

6. Move all the renamed .vobs from DVDshrank disk 2 to the folder containg the .vobs from dvdshrank disc 1. Can delete the leftover folder and files that are not .vob.

7. Open IFOedit v0.95 and select "Create IFOs". "1 PGC only". "Create chapter for each cell". Your Output stream is the .vob files you created. Check off "Same as Source". Hit "ok".

8. Use a software DVD player to check the chapters, playback, sync,... after ifoedit has finished.

9. Burn the files to DVD (in a folder named VIDEO_TS of course). I use NERO 5.5.10.7 in UDF/ISO mode with UDF 1.02 format, no multisession, and unchecked joilet and all ISO restrictions, ISO Level 1 , ISO 9660.

I have not tried including menus but someone said it can be done if you do not "reauthor" your files in DVDshrink, but previoulsy in a post there was a problem mentioned about freezing at the "Insert disc 2" prompt where the split would be.
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