I am sure that others have this problem, I just haven't found an easy solution. I have all three Lord of the Rings Movies in the extended editions. I want to be able to put the two disc set into one. With only one title. I know that I can easily combine the two disks using dvdshrink or other tools. What I want to do is edit the movie so that it cuts out the black frames from the end of disk one and flawlessly just keeps going to disc 2. I have ripped the discs to my HD, I then combined the two disks with dvdshrink. But I still have two titles. I want one title. How do I do this? How do I combine the titles so that when I open the disc, it only shows one continuous title?
I pretty much had that figured out. The problem is that for some reason when I try to play the movie, it will play the vts_01_1 file then the vts_01_10 file and then the vts_01_11 file and then back to vts_01_2. I can't seem to get it to play in the correct order when I have over 9 vob files for the movie. Which is a problem since the movies that I am trying to merge together are over 4 hours long and then end up being 10-13 vob files.
Yes maximum 9 vob files per title.
If you are re-authoring them with DVD Shrink, how can you end up with more than nine (assuming it's set to a DVD-9 in Preferences).
Originally posted by har02052: So is there a way that I can preserve the quality of the video and maybe somehow convert and merge them together?
If you want to preserve the quality and merge them, use MPEG2CUT2 to merge the titles and save as one large MPEG - which might be OK using a media player.
If you want a DVD, you have to accept compression to fit the destination disk.
You could let DVD shrink process both titles to an 8GB disk then use the above program to merge them.
Take the merged file and and use an authoring program to get it onto a disk - the likes of DVD Flick has a setting to copy compliant mpeg2 files without recoding the video (thus no further loss in quality).
It will recode the audio.
I do plan on finally compressing the movies into mp4 format. I just was wanting to have them merged without loss of quality so that I could later encode them. ifoedit allows me to have more than 9 vob files and it creates an image for me that is 11gb, but when I mount the image on a virtual drive, it reads vob_1_1 and then vob_1_10 before vob_1_2. I am going to try to mess with renaming the vobs in order to "trick" it into reading them in the correct order. I will let you know what happens.
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I know that I have done this process before using Nero Vision. I tried it this time though and it kept giving me an error in reading the vob files. I just wish there was an easy way to merge long movies together. It should be seemles. IDK.
So I couldn't figure it out. I know that I did it before without a hitch in Nero Vision. I don't know why it didn't work this time. So I went ahead and and used Nero Recode to put both the titles onto one disc (essentially the same thing as dvd shrink), but as long as I shrunk it down to the size of one DVD-DL, I was also able to combine the titles so that it made it one long movie and not two separate titles. I figured I would rather do it in one step with Recode than to do it in three steps with vobedit, ifoedit, and dvd shrink.
In order to lose the least amount of quality, I also trimmed out all of the few extra seconds at the end of the one title before it jumps to the second. I then removed all of the credits at the end of each of the movies. That takes out about 30 minutes per movie. I then deleted all of the extra audio tracks, menus, subtitles, languages, directors commentary and what-not in order to free up a little bit more space. Overall, I think it turned out pretty well. Although I still think it was a bit of a hassle.
