2 sided DVD

[jficke]

So I have a couple of movies that are either 2 sided or on two discs, in either case I have ran them through DVD Decrypter (both sides or both discs). So how do I use AutoGK to make one complete XVID from the two decryptions? as opposed to having to make a "part1, part2" XVID file for one movie.

[CWR03]

I don't know that you can directly with AutoGK, but if you use all the same settings to encode them you should be able to splice the two separate encodes together with VirtualDubMod.

[Jacquers]

If you rip it in IFO mode and set file splitting to none you'll get two vob files: one from each side. You should be able to merge these vobs into one and convert it.

VobEdit or VobMerge should be able to do it.

Found this guide (http://ifoedit.wh.fr0zen.com/joinclip.html), maybe it will help.

[jggimi]

You cannot just merge the two IFO-mode ripped VOB sets in a single folder with changed file names, as each stream (video, audio, subs) has a different start delay.

File-mode has even more difficulties, as there are multiple PGCs, multiple angles, multiple titlesets ... ewww.

My preferred method is to use IFO-mode and decrypt separately, and then use VobEdit to concatenate the two sets into a single vobset with a single PGC. Lots of disk space required, but it works.

For other options, including other methods that I've used, just search for "lotr". Those required GK rather than AutoGK, though.

Good luck!

[jficke]

Cool...Thanks for the help everyone.

[jficke]

Just one thing... I've never used vobedit, any chance you could give me a hint on where to start with this.... thanks

[jggimi]

Its been a very long time... from memory, I would say the process is:
Have up to 36GB of free disk space
Rip the main content, using IFO Mode, into separate folders
Open the first VOB set
Use Edit...Join Clips (It might be the other Join, I can't remember)
Wait.
Wait more.
Keep waiting.
Save new combined VOBset in a new folder.
I cannot remember if I needed to rebuild the IFO. I don't think so, even though I have no clear memory of the procedure. You will likely have to renumber the file names in the 2nd set before doing the Join Clips ... that I have a clearer memory about.

Good luck!

[jggimi]

Oh, one other thing. If you have header/trailer cells or chapters that are part of the PGC but not really part of the content -- I mean those "Continued on Disc 2" kinds of header/trailer cells -- you may want to deselect those chapters/cells before ripping.