Ripping a double-sided DVD?

[ValorSolo]

For some reason, Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves was released as a double sided disk.
The total size of the files from both sides is around 7.5GB.
It seems ridiculous to think they would have you flip your DVD in the middle of the movie, if it would fit onto a standard DVD9, yet here it is.

Anyways, to my question.
How can I decrypt/rip this to a single movie and encode to MKV?
Or is there a way to join the MKV files after encoding them separately?

I've tried many video joiners in the past.
All of which produce poor quality output.

And before you ask, yes this is a standard retail DVD from Walmart or BestBuy.

Thanks for any help.

[Ghitulescu]

See joining 2 dvds.

[alfixdvd]

Rip side A of the DVD
Rip side B of the DVD

Join both sides to a unique DVD9 with Dvd2One

1) Select Make a only-movie only copy or join ...
2) Select directory of RIP side A
3) Click on ++ button (Add a seamless title)
4) Select directory of RIP side B
On Settings Of Bacth list :Output Size DVD DL

5) Click on green buton to start the process of joining.

[Hagbard23]

Join 'em in AVISYNTH via:

Dgindex+Dgdecode ->

DGDecode(c:\blah\blah\blah.d2v)+DgDecode(C:\blah\blah\blah2.d2v)

That's it ... Or even much better:

Feed all belonging VOB's into DGINDEX(via "Add-Button") and let it run. After that feed the resulting d2v into AviSynth.

Feed that to your Encoder (x264 most likely)

If you do not re-encode at all (just putting m2v into mkv, which is "possible"), then do it the way ALFIXDVD said..

[setarip_old]

@ValorSolo

Hi! It seems ridiculous to think they would have you flip your DVD in the middle of the movie, if it would fit onto a standard DVD9, yet here it is. "Flippers" were all the rage for commercial releases around 1997...

[ValorSolo]

Thanks for all the help.
I was able to join them, but the audio was way out of sync, so I'm gonna try it again.

BTW, I used dgindex and added all vob files like instructed.
I let it run, and the results were a m2v and 2 ac3 files, one English and the other not English.
I then used mkvmerge and muxed the files together.

I know I didn't follow all instructions, but I don't have DVD2One, and I don't know how to use AviSynth.
I'm strictly a gui guy.

[Monkeylord]

I've been having trouble with a similar project over the past few days.

Been ripping my LotR extended edition DVD's (R2 - 25FPS) and encoding them to x264 with AAC audio in MeGui for playback on my 360. Rip goes fine, indexing also fine, but the joining goes awry every time.

I've tried indexing all the vobs to make one complete movie that way - Encoding goes well, but audio ends up out of synch.
I've tried indexing as if doing 2 seperate movies, and joining in YAMB or AviDemux. Both times the individual MP4's seem perfect, but the joined result from either YAMB or AviDemux always ends up with the 1st half in synch (or maybe even very slightly out - sometimes it seems it, others it looks fine) but the second half out of synch.

It's baffling to me!

There is a single black frame at the end of disc one, but I cut that using the avisynth cutter in MeGui. Not sure if that would have significance, but the sync is out by more than a frames-worth of time.

[Trahald]

Im lazy so when i backed up my EE's I encoded at a bitrate that allowed me to fit everything on one disk, but I made 2 files . No sync issues... im sure there is a way to pad your audio before joining it. perhaps eac3to?

[Sharc]

You may also want to try the following:
1) Convert the .vobs to .mkv using MakeMKV. Every PGC will result in one .mkv file.
2) Join the mkv's using mkvmerge_GUI (from mkvtoolnix)
3) Encode the joined mkv with x264.
=> Everything in sync, including subtitles.

[Hagbard23]

Use media info to check, wether the second audio track has got delay, or not...

[ValorSolo]

I've downloaded DVD2One and followed alfixdvd's instructions.
All seems to have went well, but I won't know for sure until I finish encoding with VidCoder.
I'm in a rush, so I didn't test the vob files before encoding.

DVD2One joined both sides in about 10 minutes.
If the quality is maintained, this software will be well worth keeping on hand.

Thanks for all the guidance.

EDIT: The encode turned out great. All in sync, and perfectly playable. There was a couple seconds of black frames where the movie was joined, but I can deal with that.