How to make Lord of the Rings - Extended Version to one movie on hard disk

[DeadByDawn]

Hi,
I just recently built my media pc and am new to all this.
I am sure this has been posted tons of times.

I would like to rip my extended editions of lord of the rings disc 1+2 to one movie.

Is there a way to concatenate the movies together?

The software i have is:
Dvdshrink
Nero Ultimate 8
Anydvd


Thanks in advance

[LoRd_MuldeR]

What do you want to have as end-product? If you put both LOTR discs onto one DVD-R 4.7 as Video-DVD it will look horrible for sure (2x 8.5 GB -> 4.7 GB).
So If you really want to have it on a Video-DVD, I highly recommend you use a DVD-R DL 8.5 GB media, but the quality still won't be nice...

Another option (and by far the most quality-preserving one) is re-encoding to H.264/AVC with x264, but a normal DVD-Player won't play that...

[Sharktooth]

@lord_mulder: if i understood correctly he's going to store everything on his hard drive to use his new media pc for playback.

@DeadByDawn: you will need some extra (but luckily free) software to do what you need. im not an expert in concatenating DVDs so im not sure i can suggest you an easy and fast method, but im sure i read how to do it somewhere here at the doom9 forums. try searching around while waiting for someone to answer

[mahsah]

Well, he did say he has a media PC, so in that case you could just rip each disc as normal and then append them with MKVtoolnix

[LoRd_MuldeR]

@lord_mulder: if i understood correctly he's going to store everything on his hard drive to use his new media pc for playback

In that case he can simply rip both discs to his HDD and then join both parts without re-encoding. This will be a lossless procedure.
I personally would extract the Discs to my HDD with DVDFab Decrypter (no AnyDVD needed) and then index/join the VOB files with Avidemux.
The result will be one big MPEG-PS file (approximately 17 GB). Okay to keep on HDD and watch...

At a later time he still might want to re-encode the MPEG file with x264, so he can burn a backup on DVD±R DL 8.5 or even DVD±R 4.7.

[setarip_old]

@DeadByDawn

For assistance in your endeavor, although referring to discs, the following thread (and the additional thread it provides a link to) should be useful:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1089676#post1089676

[Challe77]

i guess your tools are ok, but there are better ones out there, of cource they are a bit more expensive.

/Karl

[Inspector.Gadget]

i guess your tools are ok, but there are better ones out there, of cource they are a bit more expensive.

/Karl

Define "better".

[woody777]

I'm trying to do the same thing as the OP.

I used DVDShrink to rip an uncompressed ISO of disc 1 and 2 to my HDD.
I stripped out everything except the first main title (I have no idea
why there are two???) and the DTS soundtrack.

I can join both rips using DVDShrink, which creates a new ISO with
both titles. During playback, at the end of the first title the second
title begins fairly seamlessly. The only hiccup is that it really
starts a second movie - I can't rewind or chapter back to the first
title once the second title begins.

How do I make this into one seamless movie? I read just about every
thread here and I can't figure it out. I'm not trying to compress this
to a single disc - it will stay on my HDD. Actually, I don't want to
compress or cut anything (except what I already stripped).

[mariush]

Try using the old DVD Decrypter to rip both DVD's as single 8GB VOB files. I believe DVDFab is also capable of this though I'm not sure.
If you want further processing, then use avisynth to load them and concatenate them and optionally encode them using x264 with a bitrate of around 4mbps - should be enough for SD content

[slipknot!]

Try using the old DVD Decrypter to rip both DVD's as single 8GB VOB files.And then he can remux them with mkvtoolnix into 1 file. (Then demux all the tracks using mkvextract and remux them into avi - if needed.)

[woody777]

I basically just want to renumber the chapters on the second disc.

I can combine the ISO rips using DVDShrink, but then when disc one finishes, disc two starts over at chapter 1. I would like to make disc two start at the next numbered chapter after disc one ends so I can still chapter back to disc one and ahead to disc two. Does that make sense? I feel like I didn't explain that well...

[osgZach]

MKV with chapters.

http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/doc/mkvmerge-gui.html#chaptereditor

This guide should set you on the right track.

[Ghitulescu]

I basically just want to renumber the chapters on the second disc.

I can combine the ISO rips using DVDShrink, but then when disc one finishes, disc two starts over at chapter 1. I would like to make disc two start at the next numbered chapter after disc one ends so I can still chapter back to disc one and ahead to disc two. Does that make sense? I feel like I didn't explain that well...

DVD Remake Pro has the facility of joining two movies into a single one. I never used this software, I repeat what others told me.

Myself, I would reauthor the DVD. Demux everything with eg PGCdemux and reauthor the movie in a single one with eg TDA or equivalent. The only issue here is the possible lack of an audio frame (or several) that would generate either a "click" or a desynch in the next one. You might have to put the chapters by hand for the second movie (depends on the authoring software).

You can also use PGCedit or vobblanker to append the second movie to the first one, then run the dvd through dvdshrink if needed.