Splitting DVD while retaining chapters at their correct time?

[yidaki]

I have a DVD with three episodes, they are only separated as chapters, each episode has different scenes which are marked as different chapters. I would like to have each episode as a separate .ifo or .d2v file, for easy insertion into gknot. Actually, that's no problem, but, the methods I've found of doing so takes the chapters for the entire DVD and puts them unaltered into each episode, so the first episode is ok, but the other two has the chapters all screwy (they have the same chapters as the first episode).
Even if I were to split the chapters manually, the timing of them wouldn't be right...

I'm going to try and split the DVD by it's cells, since it's one cell per chapter. But I'm not certain how that would end up, I mean, it would still only be one .d2v file for each episode...

[killingspree]

i guess it's time for some manual chapterfile editing!! ;)

[jorel]

hard way but will work:

1-load the vob in vobedit
click demux---> check "cell Id" and "demux complete title set"..that will give vts_xx_001.vob at vts_xx_xxx.vob
create one folder for each vob.
rename each vobs to vts_01_1.vob(within his respective folder)

2-load one of that vob in vobedit
select demux---> in "demux multiple streams at once" check all options(video,audio and subp streams)
click ok and select the source.
it will give the .m2v, all .ac3 and subps from each cell!

3- open ifoedit--->click "dvd author" and choose "author new dvd"
select the video(.m2v),audio(all ac3) and subs(all)
select destination and click ok
repeat from step 2 for each vob.

very easy way:
use dvdshrink,click "reauthor",load you dvd, select the icon "set start/end frames" and choose only one chapter and backup it.
repeat this steps for each chapter.

i did tests with a little cartoon and works perfect! :)

[ammck55]

@Jorel--> Hello, my old friend! It's been so long since I've seen you that I thought you'd forgotten all about your little buddies down here in the basement! :D Come on down and hang out more often!

ammck55

[jorel]

oh thanks for that kind of words.:) in my newby vision, i think that the newbys forum is the place where always have complicated questions...nobody can do so hard questions as newbys! :p here is not the "basement" but the "structure" of the whole forum. who want firm first steps have to read and learn here and always need come back cos some simple questions are "complicated" and need complex answers from the moderators that teach in simple words full of knowledge. is one of my better choices is learn here every day. my learning that came from you, oddyseus, killingspree and all mods don't have price. believe me, i'm still a learner and here is one of the best places to learn.
best regards ammck55 ! :)

[ammck55]

@Jorel...Yours are the kind words, sir, and your description of the Newbies forum and its function is a sweet one!

@Yidaki...Should you choose to use the start/end points to manipulate your chapters within DVDShrink, here's a link to the DVDShrink advanced re-authoring guide (http://www.dvdshrink.info/re-author-advanced.php). Don't let the "advanced" description intimidate you, the tutorial is put together using "Wink", an extraordinarily fine tool built by Satish, and is easy to figure out after a little work. It would be worth viewing the guide just to see Wink in action, even if you have no intention of using the aforementioned Shrink function. :) Good luck!

ammck55

[yidaki]

This feels rather confusing for my tiny brain, but I've tried half of the first method, and I have all the small DVD's, which I now are trying to figure out how to put into three episodes.

I'll look into the DVDshrink link, and see how that looks.

Thanks a bunch for your help sofar anyway! :D