wantok
24th June 2003, 16:08
All,
We have purchased several 20-30 minute animated videos for my daughter. I want to combine 2-3 (or possibly 4) onto one DVD. I'm doing this for two reasons. 1) I'd like to put one disk in and have it play for at least 90 minutes (I often let tv babysit). 2) We are taking a big road trip and I'd like to leave the orginals behind, and take copies in the car, camping etc.
I'd like to be able to resave the combined DVD without having to change the compression or quality of the originals.
I have experimented to no avail, and have read several guides which have corrected some errors, but I'm still not to a working finished product.
Here is what I've tried with the results. If anyone can direct me on the best choice with solution, I would be very grateful. Or if there is a different path I should take all together, I would appreciate that as well.
Attempt 1: Naively, I figured I could just rip the DVDs, following the guide to copy just the main movie. Then rename each of the vobs, ifos, and bups, create a new pgc, and be on my way. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to alter the pgc in ifo edit, so I could never get the second movie to play.
Attempt 2: Using Vitec DVD Tools v2.0, I used vob2mpeg. Generated extracted the m2v and ac3 stream. Then used their dvdmaker1.1. This created a DVD that had both videos in it, but the audio was out of sync. I've read a lot in the forum, about padding the video, to resync, but must admit I got confused, and continued looking for another solution. I'm beginning to think I need to go back to this method as it was the closest.
Attempt 3: Using DVD Decrypter in IFO mode, I got the elementary streams again. Then I tried to use IfoEdit to author a new DVD. The problem here was two fold. 1. IfoEdit would only take one m2v file for the video. I have at least 4 to combine the two disks. Also, I tried to do it with just one of the videos (and only the first 16 minutes at that), but the audio was out of sync, and the picture was no longer smooth. Every 2 seconds or so it would jump forward (kind of like a slide show), and several times the picture displayed would be interwoven with either the previous or the next scene.
Attempt 4: This was a weak attempt, but I tried to use flaskmpeg to create an AVI file from the VOBs. This appeared to be working but the first videos AVI file was ~25GB. I've only got a 40GB drive, so it was a non starter. I never checked the output to see about audio/video sync.
Any assistance or direction would be appreciated. I'd like to keep original quality (each disk is only about 1.5 G for the actual video) and just have a continuous play DVD with 2-4 of them in a row. Fancy in my mind would be to have a chapter break between each video, so we could jump from one to another. No menu is necessary.
Thanks in advance to everyone who read through this long post. But I wanted to put what I had already tried out in the open for as much feedback as possible.
Thanks
Wantok
We have purchased several 20-30 minute animated videos for my daughter. I want to combine 2-3 (or possibly 4) onto one DVD. I'm doing this for two reasons. 1) I'd like to put one disk in and have it play for at least 90 minutes (I often let tv babysit). 2) We are taking a big road trip and I'd like to leave the orginals behind, and take copies in the car, camping etc.
I'd like to be able to resave the combined DVD without having to change the compression or quality of the originals.
I have experimented to no avail, and have read several guides which have corrected some errors, but I'm still not to a working finished product.
Here is what I've tried with the results. If anyone can direct me on the best choice with solution, I would be very grateful. Or if there is a different path I should take all together, I would appreciate that as well.
Attempt 1: Naively, I figured I could just rip the DVDs, following the guide to copy just the main movie. Then rename each of the vobs, ifos, and bups, create a new pgc, and be on my way. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to alter the pgc in ifo edit, so I could never get the second movie to play.
Attempt 2: Using Vitec DVD Tools v2.0, I used vob2mpeg. Generated extracted the m2v and ac3 stream. Then used their dvdmaker1.1. This created a DVD that had both videos in it, but the audio was out of sync. I've read a lot in the forum, about padding the video, to resync, but must admit I got confused, and continued looking for another solution. I'm beginning to think I need to go back to this method as it was the closest.
Attempt 3: Using DVD Decrypter in IFO mode, I got the elementary streams again. Then I tried to use IfoEdit to author a new DVD. The problem here was two fold. 1. IfoEdit would only take one m2v file for the video. I have at least 4 to combine the two disks. Also, I tried to do it with just one of the videos (and only the first 16 minutes at that), but the audio was out of sync, and the picture was no longer smooth. Every 2 seconds or so it would jump forward (kind of like a slide show), and several times the picture displayed would be interwoven with either the previous or the next scene.
Attempt 4: This was a weak attempt, but I tried to use flaskmpeg to create an AVI file from the VOBs. This appeared to be working but the first videos AVI file was ~25GB. I've only got a 40GB drive, so it was a non starter. I never checked the output to see about audio/video sync.
Any assistance or direction would be appreciated. I'd like to keep original quality (each disk is only about 1.5 G for the actual video) and just have a continuous play DVD with 2-4 of them in a row. Fancy in my mind would be to have a chapter break between each video, so we could jump from one to another. No menu is necessary.
Thanks in advance to everyone who read through this long post. But I wanted to put what I had already tried out in the open for as much feedback as possible.
Thanks
Wantok