Here's a good question > 2 into 1 DVD auth

[b4gm4n]

Hi...

I've actually been trying for an age to put 2 full DVD tiles onto 1 DVDr

Now i seem to have done reasonably well concidering...this is what i've done.

Ripped the DVD movies with DVD-Decryptor (file mode) to my HDD
Using IFO-Edit i take out the stuff i dont need, i.e subs, menus etc - then in IFO-Edit save the movie as one large VOB file.

In DVD-Lab, create my own menus etc and complie the Disk to my HDD (usually turns out @ 8-9 gig)

Then (i thought) i'd use Elby CloneDVD to encode my rendering to a blank DVDr - hopeing it'll re-encode down to size, sure the quality would'nt be there, but hey...

But Elby doesn't do it, balks on start of encoding with an error...
I thought normally you can rip a DVD, ends up at around 6gig or whatever and Clone would then re-encode it down to size, i thought i'd have the same luck....

So my question, what have i done wrong here? should i have encoded the main DVD rip down to size first? or is there another DVD burning app that will encode my little creation down to a DVDr and burn it....

Please advise, and thanx

-b4

Just seen this thread > here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=68184)

dvd2one eh? hmmm maybe i should have tried that :D

=b4

[erad]

Did you get it to work for you?

[b4gm4n]

Yes, using DVD2one...got both films onto one DVDr, nice menu using DVD-Lab...burned and plays well on my Ronin dvd-player

-b4

[b4gm4n]

DVD-shrink 1.3 is very nice for getting 2 onto 1 :D

-b4

[brett]

If you want to fit more than one full movie on a DVD-R, you'd be much better off using CCE unless you just don't care about quality. You can set up DVD2SVCD to automate the entire process for you, in which case it is not only the best quality but also the easiest way to put more than one movie on a DVD-R. DVD2SVCD is a 1-click solution once you get through the tedious setup process. It will give you an MPEG that you can just drop right into TMPGEnc DVD Author, Maestro, or whatever.

I really like DVD2One, but its quality starts to suffer if you're putting more than 2 hours on a DVD-R.

[maa]

Originally posted by brett
once you get through the tedious setup process.
Arn't there any templates for that ?
Surely most people will use nearly the same settings for that kind of job....