TV Series DVDs in 4-5 DVD-Rs: Help!

[SuperFresko]

Hello everybody!

I'm a newbie, and I've read many guides and tutorials, but couldn't find what I'm looking for.

There is this TV Series I like very much on PAL DVD, with 2 eps per DVD (sometimes 3).

Now I'm converting each ep in CVD with DVD2SVCD, following a guide, because with the settings I'm using (resolution Half-DVD, audio 48Kb) the MPEG file on the disk should be DVD compliant and I should be able to drag the file of the CVD in the DVD creation program and everything should work fine.

Video on TV looks great and I'm satisfied with is, but this way I'm losing the 5.1 audio, having only a stereo sound.

So, my question is: is there a way to downsize the eps to Half-DVD resolution and put 4, 5 or even 6 eps on a single DVD-R?

I'm not interested in complicated menus and extra. I would just have the eps on the DVD-Rs, with a single initial menu the lets me choose wich episode watch.

Once I tried TMPGEnc with DVD2AVI using the wizard to create a Half-DVD file, but the resulting MPEG file looked horrible (I'm afraid I messed up with some settings).

I read a thread about fitting TNG DVDs on DVD-Rs preserving all menus and extras. That's not what I want to do, beacause I'd like to take 2 eps from one DVD, 2 eps from another DVD (and hopefully even 2 more eps from another DVD), downsize them preserving the 5.1 audio track and put all of them on a single DVD-R.

Will someone help me? I looked in the guides, but only found how to put a movie on a DVD-R or how to convert VCD/SVCD to DVD.

Thankyou SO much!

Bye bye,
Max.

[TRILIGHT]

Basically, you can use the guides for making a DVD backup but ignore the parts you won't need. You should do some searches and read the parts of the guides that deal with re-authoring or authoring original work. What you're wanting to do is a LOT easier than trying to make a full backup. All you have to do is import all of your video and audio assets into the authoring software and make your own menus for selection. Outside of extracting the audio and video, everything you are wanting to do is original authoring and you can use your software's manual for learning it's different capabilities and how you might apply them to your project.