Problem combining 2-part DVD

[trollw]

I have a movie that I backed-up to 2 DVDs using DVD X-Copy (it was a DVD-9). However, changing the discs halfway through the movie is irritating my wife. I put both main movie titles on one DVD using the re-author mode in DVDShrink2 (without the menu and extras to save as much resolution as possible). The resulting DVD works fine escept for a minor glitch: there is a very slight pause (0.5-1 second long) when the playback crosses the gap between the two separate titles. In addition, if the playback has crossed the gap, you cannot 'back-up' past the start of the second section (to get back into the first section, you have to stop and restart the movie then 'fast-forward to the place you want).

Needless to say, neither of these are killer problems. Just wondering if there is something simple that I should be doing to keep it from happening.

I joined this group when I started doing DVD back-ups and the information available has really helped me accelerate through my learning curve -- Many Thanks.

Regards,
John

[blutach]

Hi John and welcome.

There's a couple of things you can do.

1. You can merge the titles - either using VobEdit and recreate the IFOs, which will give you back your chapter markers or Nero Recode's Merge Titles feature.

See http://ifoedit.wh.fr0zen.com/joinclip.html#joindbl for the VobEdit method.

2. The stoppage is caused by the fact that the player actually finishes playing title 1 (disk 1's material), then goes through the IFOs and starts on title 2. It's not seamless and can't be unless you join the titles (as above). However, if this doesn't worry you that much (and, after all, you have chopped it down from a minute to change the disk to 1/2 second) and you want to chapter skip to the previous title, check this (http://home.tiscali.be/debie.roland/pgcedit/third_party/2cool/previous_chapter/intro.htm) out.

Good luck

[trollw]

Thanks for the reply. I will give the PgcEdit version a try.

Regards,
John