Multiple Tracks

[DHSCORD]

Question about DVD2SVCD...

I have anumber of DVDs with multiple tracks on them (such as multiple episodes of TV shows). Assuming that there were 6 episodes on a DVD (i.e 6 tracks) how would I create a single SVCD out of 3 of them? Or a 2 x SVCD set out of all of them (as I normally do for a single track DVD)?

Any help appreciated. :)

[ammck55]

Welcome to Doom9!

This task can be accomplished with DVD2SVCD. Below is text that I copied from a response given by markrb, one of our retired Mods.

Simply make sure you are using Internal routines.
Check DVDripping.
Load the IFO and click on the time dropdown.
A popup with come up. On the top of it is track length.
Select the first one that you want.
Rip it using rip only.
Select the next time length on the dropdown.
Rip it to a different directory.
After you have ripped all the times you want to different directories find the highest number of the VOB's in the first place you ripped to.
Go to the second directory and rename the Vob files there exactly the same but, one number higher then the highest numbered Vob in the first directory.
Copy them to the first ripped place.
Continue doing this for each of the directories ripped.
Uncheck ripping.
Select the IFO off the HD from the first directory
The time shown will be wrong, but that doesn't matter.
It should convert everything as one encode.


There are issues with the above method. DVD2AVI has a bug that can make things like this out of Sync after the first ripped video. It does this even if you rip with another ripper.
You will not get DVD chapters after the first ripped section. Use fixed chapters instead. Subtitles will not work.

Mark.


Note-The time dropdown box is located under the "Conversion" tab.
You can manually set chapterpoints under the "CD Image" tab.

If you'd like to view the thread that this info came from, here's (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39117/) a link to it, or you can view the same information by accessing the Q&A (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21859/) in the DVD2SVCD Basic Topics forum, look somewhere around Q.42. At first glance, this procedure would appear to be fairly complicated, but take your time and follow the directions carefully.....and give a hearty yell of triumph and a fist pump when you accomplish this. :)

ammck55

[DHSCORD]

Thanks for the help... I thought about doing that actually but did not finish it because of the "times being wrong" when you go to Convert... will give it a try.

Thanks muchly!

:)

[DHSCORD]

Tried what you said but found the video quality to be awful compared to similar length DVDs. Is there something I need to be looking out for when I set this up to run?

[manono]

Hi-

Perhaps the TV shows are full screen and the DVDs to which you refer are widescreen. If so, that could account for it. Full screen video, without black bars, requires encoding many more non-black pixels and thus are much less compressible. Perhaps, instead of going for three shows/CD, just put two.