Einston
6th February 2008, 10:16
Hallo all..
I'm a bit of a noob but i would like to ask you guys for some help.
I have some lectures on DVD-5. They average about 1 hour 10 min each. There are no encryption or region issues.
I also have some lectures on DVD-5 disks containing about 5 hours (5 lectures) of reasonable quality. Quality is not very important here. The message is much more important. I need to distribute these lectures to people and would like to be able to put 5 of those lectures from individual DVD's onto one DVD-5. It saves money, time and my DVD burner...
Now i have done some reading up and searching on the internet and that's how i found Doom9. I've learned to use DVD Shrink and how to create new IFO's using IFOEdit. Now i've used Power Producer and successfully put 2 lectures on one DVD-5 (Using Long Play Setting) with good quality and a simple still menu with no sound. There is no subtitle either and there is also only a singe AC3 sound channel. There is a button for each lecture. This was quite easy. I also have a copy of Nero Premium and thus can use Nero Recode to put 5 lectures onto one DVD-5. Drawback is there is no menu.
It seems to me Power Producer is more concerned with the playback time than the amount of data you put on the DVD. For example, two compressed lectures takes only about 1.6GB and they play for about 2 hours 20 min together. This almost reaches the 4GB line on the bar after adding the VOBs. (Using LP Long Play setting).
Then i got "clever". :p I used Power Producer and produced a menu with the background and buttons like i want them and used 5 short VOB's as dummies. The plan was to burn the project to my HD and then replace the short VOB's with the actual much longer VOBs. The end result would still be less than about 4.3GB so in theory i can then burn to Disk after the replace.(Note, each lecture is a single VOB file and i took care to rename them in order using the same file name format as the Dummies). Then i learned the hard way that the IFO files control the playing of the VOB files. All worked fine except that only the duration of the Dummy is played on the replaced file. Then i spent time trying to find out how the fix the playback time so the whole VOB is played. I found some threads but they used some greek words like demux and remux and many others that defies understanding. :confused: Later i figured out how to generate new IFO's but how to retain the menu? I then found out you could use the Replace function in VOBblanker [i think]. Will this keep the menu and button functionality? I always remove the chapters when creating the Menu. So they are not an issue.
PS. It was real hard to find out what program performs what function. I ended up downloading just about everything i could find. Now i have a buch of programs and hardly know what they are for or how to use them.. I have noticed that experienced folks here often tell the noobs what to do but hardly ever tell them how to do it.
Many thanks in advance.
Einston.
I'm a bit of a noob but i would like to ask you guys for some help.
I have some lectures on DVD-5. They average about 1 hour 10 min each. There are no encryption or region issues.
I also have some lectures on DVD-5 disks containing about 5 hours (5 lectures) of reasonable quality. Quality is not very important here. The message is much more important. I need to distribute these lectures to people and would like to be able to put 5 of those lectures from individual DVD's onto one DVD-5. It saves money, time and my DVD burner...
Now i have done some reading up and searching on the internet and that's how i found Doom9. I've learned to use DVD Shrink and how to create new IFO's using IFOEdit. Now i've used Power Producer and successfully put 2 lectures on one DVD-5 (Using Long Play Setting) with good quality and a simple still menu with no sound. There is no subtitle either and there is also only a singe AC3 sound channel. There is a button for each lecture. This was quite easy. I also have a copy of Nero Premium and thus can use Nero Recode to put 5 lectures onto one DVD-5. Drawback is there is no menu.
It seems to me Power Producer is more concerned with the playback time than the amount of data you put on the DVD. For example, two compressed lectures takes only about 1.6GB and they play for about 2 hours 20 min together. This almost reaches the 4GB line on the bar after adding the VOBs. (Using LP Long Play setting).
Then i got "clever". :p I used Power Producer and produced a menu with the background and buttons like i want them and used 5 short VOB's as dummies. The plan was to burn the project to my HD and then replace the short VOB's with the actual much longer VOBs. The end result would still be less than about 4.3GB so in theory i can then burn to Disk after the replace.(Note, each lecture is a single VOB file and i took care to rename them in order using the same file name format as the Dummies). Then i learned the hard way that the IFO files control the playing of the VOB files. All worked fine except that only the duration of the Dummy is played on the replaced file. Then i spent time trying to find out how the fix the playback time so the whole VOB is played. I found some threads but they used some greek words like demux and remux and many others that defies understanding. :confused: Later i figured out how to generate new IFO's but how to retain the menu? I then found out you could use the Replace function in VOBblanker [i think]. Will this keep the menu and button functionality? I always remove the chapters when creating the Menu. So they are not an issue.
PS. It was real hard to find out what program performs what function. I ended up downloading just about everything i could find. Now i have a buch of programs and hardly know what they are for or how to use them.. I have noticed that experienced folks here often tell the noobs what to do but hardly ever tell them how to do it.
Many thanks in advance.
Einston.