Good way to author an episodic DVD

[Pyocola]

Hi,
I'm currently trying to combine two different releases of the same show to one DVD (using the video from one, and the audio/subs from the other). The problem is that one has all the episodes encoded as a single movie, and the other has each episode in a different VTS. So what's the easiest and best way to get this to work? (I don't really care about menus and extras, I just want the main show.)

Should I extract the audio and subs and try to append those and then mux it with the long .m2v in IfoEdit/ReJig? Or should I extract the video by chapters so each episode has its own set of video/audio/subs? (Probably better since I guess there might be invidual timing issues for each episode that needs correction.) And how do I author it then (preferably with some freeware applications)?

I searched and it seems people recommend DVDLab Pro for this kind of stuff. I tried that one but it seems it can only import subtitles in text format like .srt, and I would prefer it if I didn't have to mess with those, meaning something that can import idx/sub or sup.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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[glyons]

I've done something like this using DVDAuthorGUI (http://www.videohelp.com/~liquid217/dvdauthorgui.pl) just have each chapter video (as an elementary stream), audio and subs apart, it creates a VTS for each video you add.

[Pyocola]

Sorry, then I'll rephrase my question to "what is a good way".

I'll try DVDAuthorGUI, thanks.

Edit: Too bad, DVDAuthorGUI was also only able to handle text-subs, thanks anyway though.