Future question about making a DVD+R into 2 discs

[yoke_doke]

It seems as though a lot of the DVDs I have are 2 layers.

I understand that I can split a DVD up into two discs if it is two layers. But my question is:

When dual-layered DVDRs get cheap and into the DVD burning market, will I be able to take a burned copy of a DVD that I split into two discs and put it onto 1 dual-layered burnable DVDR?

So, for example, let's say I ripped the movie Fight Club. But the original copy was 2 layers. So I burned it onto 2 (DVDR) discs. Yet in the future, I bought dual-layered discs to burn. So then I would want to take that (DVDR) 2-disc-set copy I made and make it into a 1-disc DVDR.

Will this be possible? Will it be seamless?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

[Gil T Pleasure]

FYI, dual layer DVD discs are pressed and not burned.

So we will never see recordable dual layer discs for our red laser DVD burners. It's not that it's impossible to make dual layer discs (Blu-Ray will support dual layer recordable discs), it's just that it would not be compatible with current red laser DVD-ROMs/Players.

Hope that answers your question.

[yoke_doke]

Yup. That answers that. Two quick questions:

1. Let's say that blue-laser burners hit the market a few years from now. Will I be able to take the 2-disc sets that I made in the meantime and throw them on 1 disc (to be burnt on the blue-laser DVD drive), and do it seamlessly?

2. Let's say I have the movie Death to Smoochy. The size of the original is about 6GB. But the actual movie is about 2 hours, so the actual movie should fit on one disc.

Is there a way to set up the copy so that both Disc 1 and Disc 2 have the menus, but Disc 1 has the actual movie and Disc 2 has the extras (so for example, if I selected the "Play Movie" option on Disc 1, it would play the move, but if I selected the "Play Movie" option on disc 2, it would not play it because it would only contain the information from the extras)?

I.E. the first disc plays the movie in its entirety (instead having to switch discs during the middle) and the second disc plays the extras.

Thanks again.

[Gil T Pleasure]

1) I don't have a Blu-Ray burner so I don't really know, but like they say "anything is possible."

2) Use DVDXCopy for this.