How to restructure DVD:s with TV-series?

[teko77]

Hi!


I am trying to divide some DVD-9 TV-series DVD:s into DVD-5:s.
The discs contain no subtitling and it seems that I can take the
original streams and import 3 episodes to a DVD-5. I could do this with Spruce-Up, but would lose the chapters in the process and with Spruce-Up one cannot guarantee that the chapters would stay in place as one has to do the chapter-marking manually.

How should I proceed then? What about taking the Vobs of each episode (usually 2 vob-files), joining the with VobEdit and importing into a DVD Authoring software, e.g. DVD Workshop? Would the chapter-marks then stay in their place or how should one do? I would like to create a custom-menu, but keep the chapters intact.

Edit: I don't like the menu-making in Maestro, but with the Menu Studio -software one could be able to make a menu and importing it into Maestro and thereby with ChapterXTractor importing the precise chapter-marks as well. I will try that - any other suggestions?


Thank you for any help,




Teko

[dvd_master]

without trying to sound rude, is it really that much trouble to make the chapters yourself?

[valnar]

This is probably the wrong forum to make this suggestion, but have you considered DivX? I do 1:1 DVD copies of my movies, but usually resort to DivX for episode discs for several reasons. One is because of the size difference, and two because re-authoring multi-PGC episode discs are a pain.

I can get eleven (11) 45 minute episodes of a TV program on one DVD-R, keeping the original AC3 track. Not bad. I get a whole season on two DVD-R's that way.

Robert

[oddyseus]

Try the new ifoupdate 063 program. U can reconstruct the complex structure of a multi-pgc dvd even on Spruce-Up.

There is a relevant thread in Advanved DVD authoring forum.