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Custom_VCD
11th December 2003, 05:48
This is what I did to Get my LOTR.EE to one disc.

First use Dvd-Shrink and put both movies and audio tracks in the re-author window and have it reauthor the vobs for ya to one folder, use no recompression, this will allow CCE to work for ya instead of a transcoder. You can cut the credits or the intermission screen or whatever else you want through dvd-shrink. Whatever you use as your folder output you should have all the vobs and 2 different sets of vts. One being the first part of the movie, the other being the second. I had to sets of 6 vobs totalling 12 vobs of the main movie

Then next part I did was rename the vobs from the second vts in line with the first

LOTR.EE_1_06

Change
LOTR.EE_2_01
into
LOTR.EE_1_07

Run these through create IFO using IFOEDIT v0.96. It will create a new IFO containg the joined vts sets info.

The next part I used DVD2SVCD or DVD2DVD whatever you want to call it, to downsample with CCE. I tried to use the Big Three (my favorite tools, but it wouldn't accept a single vts set now) This worked perfect, i didn't encode the ac3 file, i left it alone from the orignal vobs created from the dvd-shrinking.

The Next part took me 2 weeks to figure out. During remuxing using IfoEdit, and Maestro the ac3 sound wouldn't be accepted because of a dropped flag frame of the ac3. The second part of the movie set of vobs had no sound. I almost gave on this , but I decided to tryout the 1.4.1 version of DVD-Lab, this worked like a charm. It remuxed the authored mpv file and the ac3. I imported the chapter list and DVD-Lab authored the Video_TS Folder. I re-ran it through ifoedit to edit vts_sectors and it was ready to go. Used this on three dvds now to perfection. Im gonna right a better guide when I get time and use pics, but hope this helps out. Glad I could maybe help someone.

influenza
11th December 2003, 16:38
Just out of curiosity: what was the avg bitrate on this masterpiece?

Custom_VCD
11th December 2003, 18:00
The avg bitrate was 3217, pic is prettty damn incredible considering the length. I used 5 shot CCE with RoBA template.

donny74
12th December 2003, 07:16
I also did the Two Towers Extended 2 DVDs to one DVD with near perfect quality as tested on my 22" flat panel LCD. I reauthored the DVDs with Shrink uncompressed. However, I tried both methods...CCE using BIG3 method and Instantcopy8 to compress that
10 Gigabyte file. This was one exception where I found Instantcopy to have better quality than CCE, probably due to the high bitrate and picture quality of the original DVDs. I did a 4 pass CCE encode and IC8 using high quality mode. The picture from CCE was more fuzzy looking and not as sharp as InstantCopy. Both versions had no macroblocks whatsoever. However, The Lord of The Rings DVDS were the only movie series where I found Instantcopy8 quality to be better than CCE judging by sharpness,color and smoothness of the pictures.
Overall, I'm very happy with the BIG 3 method and InstantCopy8. This is my first post but I've been lurking on these forums for months and this is a great place to learn DVD stuff. Much appreciated.

htc10825
27th December 2003, 15:39
@donny74

how do you transcode it with IC8 for the joined VOBs?
If you just rename them like above, I dont think IC8 will accept it.
If you leave the 2 VTS-sets, IC8 will not creat a menu for choice, or you've made a menu in D'Schrink?