Is there an quick/easy way to crop off the end of a movie so that it fits on a DVD?

[jweaver]

I have a DVD which I want to burn.

I have stripped out all off the Subtitles and left one of the soundtracks, but its still 4,499megs

Idealy, I would like to remove the credits at the end of the movie, which means that it would probably fit.

Is there any way to do this??

[jweaver]

I should point out that the movie in question is in 'DVD Format' (i.e VIDEO_TS directory with IFO, VOB and BUP files).

[gooki]

I encountered the same problem with toy story 2 yesterday.

Here's what I did to cut of the credits.

1) Download VOBSPLIT 2.6 from here:

http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/Vobtools/vobspl26.zip

2) Load the last vob in VOBSPLIT and cut of the end portion (realy easy to do).

3) Delete or move the last vob from your video_ts directory and move the new cut vob into the video_ts directory.

4) Re-run infoedit on the files in the video_ts directory.

ie start from:

Step 3: Stripping and creating new ifo files.
aka'VOB Extras Button'

This worked fine on toy story 2, however i have only tested the disc with my xbox and pc so far with 100% success.

[gooki]

I just tested out my DVD-R with the cut vob file on a sony dvp s525d standalone player and it works a treat. If you need any more help with cutting vob files in order to shrink the overall dvd size, just ask.

[jweaver]

Thanks for that.. In the end, I used the 'Split to 2 DVDR' feature from within IFOEdit to do this.

But, a proper too (i.e Vobsplit) is going to be much more useful in the future.

Thanks for your help.

[jweaver]

Under VOBSplit, there is a tick box for "Copy 4k Header".. How should I set this?

[gooki]

I my experience leave it unticked.

[Job2]

but last time I used Vobsplit I found it played around with my setop box miniDVD's....I moved over to DVTools and found it to be a lot neater - would be better if we could see where we were snipping with these tools though....instead of trial and error.

[Artur]

Hello,
way don´t you just decrease the bitrate only of the last VOB? It seems you just missed the full copy with a few MB. Try to do this and you will have not to cut any part of the movie. Follow this guide:
http://mpucoder.kewlhair.com/Derrow/parttrans.html