combining titles on DVD-R only, posting, settings, tellme

andy

Hello,
please tellme if i am posting in the wrong forum ...

I have a DVD with 6 titles per DVD ( it is a DVD-9 ).

I would like to do no re-encoding, and to simply store 3 titles per DVD-R ...

I don't need the menues and stuff, but i'd like to preserve the subtitles.

Most/all of the DVD-9 to 2x DVD-5 manuals care only for 1 title per DVD settings ...

So how to go about it ??

What i tried until now:

I used DVD Decrypter to rip each title seperately to Harddisk, which ends up with 2 vob files per title ( each title is about 1,2 GBytes ).

So after ripping those 3 titles destined to go to my first DVD-R i am stuck with 3 ifo files and 6 vob files.

What to do now ??

I need some tool to create a main .ifo file so that i get a DVD-R that plays the first title by default, but i can jumt to title 2 or 3, preserving chapters amp; subtitles ( which should be easy, because they are still in the .vob files ).Thanks for any help / hint. If i can't get it this way, i will simply rip the .mpv and .mp2 for each title and reauthor the stuff in maestro, importing the chapters from the dvd decrypter generated output, but i will loose the subtitles :-(Ender

I'm not sure if this will help. I believe you copy the menu files from the first dvd foder and paste them in the second folder. That way at your menu on your dvd, it shows all 6 of your titles. I saw a thread where someone copied the disc exactly twice, then took out whatever he needed in vob's from each dvd folder. Half the titles worked on one disc, the other half worked on the other.

There are tools and guides for this: You can use IfoEdit and VOBEdit, and the guides are on the IfoEdit Website :

In particular look at these:

Create complete new IFO files for a set of VOB files
Joining VOB files (Clips) to one DVD-R (with VobEdit)
Joining double sided DVDs to 1 DVD-R

john,

I've gotta say, you're my saviour. I've been struggling with burning problems until I saw your link to ifoedit. It solved everything. Thanks a million.

No problem mate, but I just shared a bookmark, let Derrow, the author of the software and documentation know that his efforts are appreciated.

@framerman:

thx, but that doesnt really work, and as i stated before, i really do not care for the menu stuff ...@John:

Thx for the answer, but i already tried that ... ( using exactly the guide you stated, i should have mentioned that in my post,sorry ).

Unluckily, i always end up with a usable DVD, but the 3 Titles i combined are never accessible as Title 1/2/3...

Maybe i did something wrong, i will retry on the weekend, but did you ever actually do this successfully by yourself ??

thx anyways,

Ender

ender

what dvd is it you are trying to backup?

Ender, I am able to merge VOBs for a double sided DVD.  However the chapters are only available for the first side, I am not able to navigate past the last chapter on side one, although it will play the whole length.  

If I were to transcode (which I know you do not want to do), and then remux in DVDMaestro or other, I think I could control the chapter positions (i.e. if I had three episodes, have a chapter start at the begining of each ep.)

I dont know of any way to force chapter points with simple vob / ifo editing (yet, there might be one).

[EDIT: actually, I was poking around in IfoEdit and there appear to be ways to create chapters at specific intervals and such, this may be of some use to you.]

Are title and chapter synonyms here?

@framerman:

I am trying to convert the 2-DVD Edition quot;Fawlty Towersquot; to 4 DVD-R's.

Fawlty Towers is a comedy consisting of 12 episodes ( 6 episodes per DVD-9 ) made by John Cleese.

It is damn funny :-)

And as english isn't my mother language, i wanted to preserve the German Subtitles alongside the english sound.

And as Subripping really sux/is hard work, i preserve to keep the original vobs and split to 3 titles per DVD-R  .

Which isn't easy as well :-)

So long and thanks for the help, i hope you have happy holidays.Ender

Originally posted by ender
@framerman:

I am trying to convert the 2-DVD Edition quot;Fawlty Towersquot; to 4 DVD-R's.

Fawlty Towers is a comedy consisting of 12 episodes ( 6 episodes per DVD-9 ) made by John Cleese.

It is damn funny :-)

And as english isn't my mother language, i wanted to preserve the German Subtitles alongside the english sound.

And as Subripping really sux/is hard work, i preserve to keep the original vobs and split to 3 titles per DVD-R  .

Which isn't easy as well :-)

So long and thanks for the help, i hope you have happy holidays.Ender

i dont actually have an answer for you, but yes faulty towers is funny, but i thought the germans would have taken offence to the nazi episode?

Enf...