JOIN: DVD2ONE vs. DVD Shrink

[GParent]

I bought the DVD of GANGS OF NEW YORK and joined them using my own home brew method, which is a long process but works.

I decided to try the same thing with DVD2ONE and DVD Shrink.

DVD Shrink simply allows for the Movie title from DISC1 and DISC2 to be stacked as two titles. You do not have the option to create one seemless movie title with incrementing Chapters, like it would have been if it were on one dual layer DVD.

DVD2ONE seemed more advanced at joining. It gave two options for join. I picked the one that seemlessly created one movie ,with all chapter incrementally joined together, from two titles.

I like DVD Shrink a lot and wanted the join to offer a way to creat one merged title. Perhaps I missed some step in getting the output I expected, or its a one dimensional join: (TITLE1, TITLE2, TITLE3, .... TITLEn.)

Anyone have a different experience with join?

[krackato]

Bump. Is there anyway to use DVDShrink to join 2 movies into one?

[Kedirekin]

To the best of my knowledge there is not.

[mrbass]

intentionally there isn't. Nero Recode2 there is.

[windtrader]

and many authoring tool can assemble vobs into a single title

[GParent]

Things are much better now, because of new features in transcoders.

DVD2ONE does a perfect job. While DVDSHRINK has a join capability, but its not seamless. After the join, you get two titles, one after the other. So if you join the two sides of Goodfellas, you get Title 1, the first side, followed by title 2, the second side. In addition, the chapters start at 1 on each title. This also makes navigation to Title 1 very difficult.

With DVD2ONE, you can do the same thing as DVDSHRINK. However, with DVD2ONE you have a second option, "Seamless Join." Therefore, after the join, you get one title with all the chapters numbered from 1 thru the end of the second side, in sequential order. You end up with a pefectly merged disc, as though you ripped a single-sided, double-layered DVD.

This works on (a) Flipper Discs (eg. Goodfellas), and (b) Multi discs (eg. Gangs of New York).

Oddly enough, both of these DVD movies are from the same director!

[mrbass]

Originally posted by GParent
you get Title 1, the first side, followed by title 2, the second side. In addition, the chapters start at 1 on each title. This also makes navigation to Title 1 very difficult.


Unless you have a 'Next Title' and 'Prev Title' button on your remote (some do and some don't)

[DenFussell]

My best results in this endeavor are with DVD2One. If you don't like the transcoding engine in D2O, just set it for no compression then compress the resulting fileset with the method of your choice.

Good Luck!

[wmansir]

I just did GoNY with, well both actually. I tried DVDShrink, but like others I didn't like the non-seamless playback. So I ran my DVDSrhink output thru DVD2One and it was perfect. I mean there wasn't even a blip in the audio during the transition, which surprised me considering how crappy a job they did at smoothing the transition. The start of the disc was pretty jarring, and I hate it on the original. Luckily it works perfectly on the seamless backup. Of course I ran he DVD2One output thru DVD Rebuilder.

OT: I know a heck of a lot about picking transitions. I did hundreds of SVCDs, manually, because I hate abrupt disc changes in the middle of scenes. I would have loved to have used DVD2SVCD but I just couldn't stand them. Ironically a month before I moved to DVDR I found a program SVCD Builder (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=51081&highlight=svcdbuilder) and help beta test it. It worked very similar to my manual process of using AviSynth to divide the movie, select transition spots, fade in/out, ect. It's a really good alternative to DVD2SVCD in that respect.