Reauthoring Program?

[ncage]

Hi everyone, i was just curious what everyone uses to reauthor DVD's. Im mostly interested in removing stuff? Usually, but not always, i just want the menu and the main movie. Yes i like having the pretty menu :). Anyways i have been messing with the reauthor feature of DVD Shrink which is pretty easy to use and really cool but unfortunatly if you copy the menu over...it won't work. What does everyone usually use? IfoEdit? I was messing with ifoedit and its pretty complex. Hopefully there is something easier out there like dvd shrink's reauthor feature but that will possibly relink your menus.

Oh BTW, I was planning on reauthoring DVD's with DVD shrink and copying them to to a VIDEO_TS Folder with "no compression" from DVD Shrink then possibly encoding them with DVD-RB & CCE or QuEnc if needed.

Ncage

[CoNS]

You're kinda in the wrong section. Here (http://forum.doom9.org/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=39) is where you should post your question...

AFAIK, there're no freeware tools that will easily let you author a DVD from scratch with a menu you take from another disc. The menu on a disc is used to set various register values to be used later in the disc structure, which makes it very hard to do what you're asking.

But a way to get the result you're after, is to take the original disc and blank out the unwanted material, so that there're only the main movie and the menu left. I can highly recommend the freeware tools VobBlanker by jsoto and PgcEdit by r0lz (search this forum for further info on where to get them etc.).

VobBlanker will let you blank out (i.e. replace with a small 10 KB empty frame) whole titlesets (VTST) or titleset menus (VTSM), or part of a VTST or VTSM (i.e. PGCs and even cells).

If you're encountering an aspect ratio or language selection menu before the main movie, and you wanna blank out this pre-selection menu, too, there are a few guides on how to do this here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&postid=244793#post244793) by 2COOL and here (http://jean.laroche.free.fr/) by jeanl, both senior users from this forum.

Good luck! :)

[Whitespliff]

DvdReMake (http://www.dimadsoft.com/dvdremakepro) is also a great program to edit your DVD completely.
It's not free but you will be able to remove anything you want, change the button commands & stuff like that.

If you wan't to keep it free use MenuEdit (http://www.dimadsoft.com/menuedit).
The free demo allows you to do anything the normal version will do but there is no preview, looking at the menu's on your player helps :D