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kurtiz
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10. June 2003 @ 12:57 |
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hi, i've got a question.. some dvd's like "Friends" have got 2 different sides..you've got to swap the dvd to watch the other part..
Ofcourse you can just rip both sides and burn them to 2 dvd's but here's my problem..
What i want is to get the 2 sides on one DVD..
Is this possible..? And how do i do this..
It seems really complicated to me..But i want to try..
Please Help me...
Greetz, Kurt
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ken0042
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10. June 2003 @ 13:45 |
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Hey Kurt. Here's my opinion:
First of all bought DVD's are much larger than DVD-R's; over 8 GB instead of 4.7 GB. What you are asking to do is compress about 16 or 17 GB down to 4.7 GB. The compression tools I've seen won't be able to do that for you; there would just be too much degredation.
I suppose you could rip them to another format like .avi for playback on just your computer. I've never done this; I've just been backing up my own DVD collection for use on my stand alone player.
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kurtiz
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10. June 2003 @ 14:09 |
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no no no..each side is under 4,7 gb small..
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11. June 2003 @ 05:52 |
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You can do it, but why bother? Would it not be better to have them on seperate discs anyway, for the sake of having to switch them over, would you sacrifice the quality? I would only ever do that if the disc is too large to fit on one DVD-R.
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jnihil
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11. June 2003 @ 19:35 |
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omegaboy
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13. June 2003 @ 17:11 |
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I know what Kurtiz wanted to do. I did the same thing, with a karaoke disc that have double sided. Each side is 3GB. So then 6GB compress to 4.37GB is ok. And last week I also use DVDdecrypter, DVD2One, tmpgenc dvd author, to join 2 dvds into one dvd.
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kurtiz
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14. June 2003 @ 01:04 |
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omegaboy..can you please tell me how you did that? that's exactly what i want to do..
kurtiz
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kurtiz
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14. June 2003 @ 01:07 |
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i also ripped both sides with smartripper, compressed them with DVD2One to 2272 MB
so i now have 2 movies each 2272 MB large..what to do next..?
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HeeHawBoz
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14. June 2003 @ 14:59 |
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I turned "Michael Collins" into a single sided disc very simply with this method:
a) Use DVDDecryptor to rip both sides as if they were two separate DVDS.
b) Use DVD2One in Movie Only mode to process side A into a new directory.
c) Delete everything except the VOB files in your new movie directory. Take a note of what the last VOB is called (e.g VTS_01_4.VOB).
d) Use DVD2One in Movie Only mode to process side B into a separate directory.
e) Simply rename the new side B VOB files so that they continue on from your first set (i.e. VTS_01_5.VOB and so on).
f) Move the new VOBs for side B into the same directory as the new side A ones. You now have a directory full of nothing but VOBs, all sequentially numbered, which include the whole disc and probably take up at least 8Gb.
g) Open IFOedit, choose Create IFOs and point it to the first VOB file in your new directory.
h) Once that is finished, test your film with PowerDVD or similar and make sure you can skip through all the chapters to the end credits.
i) Process this new film with DVD2One to bring it down to the correct size (There was no compression done first time round, so don't worry about losing any more quality than you would any other time you used DVD2One - well, at least I've never seed a double-sided disc that also had a dual layer).
j) Give it another quick check witha DVD player and then just burn as normal.
Trust me, I have done this two or three times now using just these steps and getting perfect results. I have seen guides that talk about some weird stuff you are supposed to do in IFOedit, some VTS thing or something, but that just stopped the film from working for me.
I suppose you could experiment with keeping the menu from side A by using Full Disc mode but I haven't bothered with that yet.
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omegaboy
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16. June 2003 @ 16:04 |
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What I did for my Toystory 1 and Toystroy 2 was that I use DVD Decrypter for both and only extract the movies files. save those 2 movies in 2 separate folders. Then launch dvd2one and transcode each of those folders to a smaller size about 2GB each folder. Then I launch Tmpgenc DVD Author and join those 2 dvd movies into 1 dvd. Would have to create my own dvd menu. So what I did to my dvd was that I create a menu that present a choice to pick toystory 1 or toystory 2. Then after picking a toystory movie from the main menu, The next menu will contains chapters selection for that selected movie. I dont' have any guides for tmpgenc dvd author. I just use the help option from tmpgenc dvd author, because it is very much easy understanding like a guide anyway!
That was to merge 2 dvds into 1 dvd. For the double sided dvd, I would use dvd decrypter and ripped also the main movie files, save them to 2 separate folders also. And then merge SIDEB's movie portion to SIDEA's movie portion. To do so, go here : http://ifoedit.wh.fr0zen.com/joinclip.html#joindbl
AFter finish joining these vobs together. Use ifoedit to create the ifos files. Then run dvd2one to shrink down the size to fit one blank dvd disc. If you want to create menus as an "easy way", use tmpgenc dvd author or Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 16. June 2003 @ 16:13
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msb5150
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16. June 2003 @ 17:22 |
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I hate to both state the obvious and not answer the post directly, but if both sides are under the limit for a dvdr, why not buy a double-sided dvdr then you would have an "exact" backup of the episodes, but it would be more convenient that changing discs and you would avoid the horrible quality and extreme difficulty that is ripping a double-sided disc to one dvdr.
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