Two movies in One DVD

[djan]

Hi,

What programs can I use to make a DVD with 2 movies in? In wich I can choose between the two movies to play them in my Home DVD Player.

Thx.

[mikecito]

Encode your movies at you would normally, except you'll either have to compress them to a much smaller size than normal, or find a way to fit more than 4.7 GB on a DVD-R. Then just drag your assets (mpeg and audio) into your favorite dvd-author program and follow any of the hundred guides on the site.

[djan]

Is it possible to keep all the menus and all? So, it'll be one first menu with the two movies to choose wich I want to watch and then when I choose, all the menus from each original disk. Is it possible? Thx.

[mikecito]

Your question is best answered by reading the guides on the home page. To explain how to keep all the original menus on this thread would be a bit much, especially since there are tons of guides on www.doom9.org that tell you everything you need to know.

[djan]

I know I can keep all the menus and all when I make a DVD Backup from one movie. But here, the problem is that I wish to burn 2 movies in one DVD keeping all and having a menu in the beginning that permits me to choose the movie I want to watch.

[maa]

There is a special kind on menu that starts a DVD.
Making this into a secondary menu is an extreme task that would take weeks of work - even for experts.
What you can do is to use your authoring program to make a menu to start each film but the original menus are lost.

[djan]

Thx, I knew there was a problem doing it. So bye bye all the menus :(

[influenza]

It's possible, but will be a huge task as Maa said. You'll have to take apart all the original memus and reauthor them setting the correct button values and so on.

[daynight]

Hey, what's the matter with you "djan" ? Lost your enthusiasm? If I were you I would not give up without fighting. There are so many low-cost authoring tools offering capability of creating more than one motion-menus (you can use your original menu-clips; each one should be in vts_01_0.vob - check with vobrator) with the appropriate links to each other, accepting even vobs (DVD-lab) to avoid reencoding and waiting for you to check results and ... let me the ... lazy know about specific bugs.:)