Splitting a DVD9 without touching the VOBs at all?

[Dampir]

Hi everyone, I'm new to the DVD backuping and my english is kind'a bad, so please excuse me and please bear with me - thanks.

What I would like to learn is how to make two standalone-DVD-player-compatible DVD5-VIDEO disks from a DVD9-VIDEO disk without touching the VOB files at all - excluding just renameing their filenames - if there is a title set that is more than 4.7GB and its divide to ≈1GB VOB files. And I'm not just worried about any quality loss.

I've read some DVD9 splitting guides and it seemed that all of them required at least some VOB manipulation - but I might be wrong though.

Thank you for your attention, and I'm sorry if the question was already answered in the forum or/and in some of this site guides.

[setarip_old]

Hi!

After ripping your DVD to your hard drive, perhaps the simplest tool to use for this purpose is the OLD DVDFab v.0.17 (NOT to be confused with a whole bunch of more recent programs with the name "DVDFab" something or other).

You can obtain the correct program at:

www.mrbass.org

[Dampir]

Well 'ello again! Thanks for the reply!

Just tried the DVDFab 0.17.0 but it didn't got exactly the way I wanted it to.

I this case the DVD9 I tried to split had a main title set of 7 VOBs:
VTS_01_0.VOB 327 680 bytes
VTS_01_1.VOB 1 073 709 056 bytes
VTS_01_2.VOB 1 073 709 056 bytes
VTS_01_3.VOB 1 073 709 056 bytes
VTS_01_4.VOB 1 073 709 056 bytes
VTS_01_5.VOB 1 073 709 056 bytes
VTS_01_6.VOB 353 269 760 bytes

Total 5 722 142 720 bytes

(Other sets 2 212 661 248 bytes)
After splitting, the DVD5 Disc1 came out like this:VTS_01_0.VOB 327 680 bytes
VTS_01_1.VOB 1 073 739 776 bytes
VTS_01_2.VOB 899 581 952 bytes
VTS_01_3.VOB 38 912 bytes (CGP)As it seen, VTS_01_1.VOB got a bit bigger then the original (for some reason) and VTS_01_2.VOB got cutted at the end - after which the end got pasted on VTS_01_1.VOB of the second disc and the end of which got cutted and pasted on the next VOB in line and so forth...

[setarip_old]

The individual .VOB size is not important. Do the two created DVDs play properly?

[Dampir]

Yes they do play properly.
But the size does matter in mine case - and not just the size. As I said, I'm not worried just about any video or sound lost - I know there isn't any lost to them (or atleast I think I know).
In my case the VOBs must be absolutely the same so they can pass a hash-check.

[setarip_old]

so they can pass a hash-check.Please explain further...

[Dampir]

Well lets say, after time I would like to merge the two DVD5s into a DVD9 again, which will be absolutely the same as the original DVD9 - the one that is already ripped and decrypted.

[setarip_old]

At the risk of "seeing things differently" than you, if that were the only reason, I'd sooner either keep the original rip on my harddrive or re-rip my original DVD - and use either to create a 1:1 copy of my original...

[Dampir]

I don't really want to keep the original rip on my hard disk anymore because of low free space and I don't have the original disk anymore.

[jel]

... and I don't have the original disk anymore.
Dampir,

Please re-read the forum rules and also the anouncement at the top of the newbie forum, which clarifies which files we can provide assistance with.

For the record, we can not help you with commercial dvd's which you do not own.

Thread closed.

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