Splitting DVD files

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Hello everyone. This is actually my second post here, the first one was a test post.

Anyway, I thought it was best to post here on this forum, because the help I was receiving
was from within this site.

I was using IFOedit and a tutorial from Doom9 on that app, but the information in the
instructions seemed to be missing some parts.

I have this music video ripped on my hard drive. When I tried to use DVDShrink it let me
know it was too large, so I figured I would just save the files and work with it another
time after I asked someone about it.

They directed me to the tutorial for IFOEdit. So, I got about 1/2 way through splitting the
video to put on 2 DVDrs, but there is some information in the middle of their instructions,
where it is talking about the "titles" and the "extras" and it doesnt give information on
what you actually are suppposed to be doing step by step. I think they just assume you know
how to do it.

Not a good tutorial for a n00b to the app.

Anyone who has some information on a more detailed explanation of what I would need to do to
get these discs burned... would be helpful.

Like I said, I got about 1/2 way through the process, but I couldnt complete it.

Thanks.

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Welcome to the forum! :D

I just did a DVD split a hour ago but I didn't use IfoEdit. That way seems to be old school for me now and I've done alot in the past. The new method I use is with VobBlanker (http://www.videohelp.com/~jsoto/vobblanker.htm). Look in jsoto's guide section for "Splitting a DVD9 with VobBlanker".

Though it's not mentioned in the guide, I personally open two sessions of VobBlanker for my discs 1 and 2 at the same time. This way, I can keep track of my target DVD sizes on both sessions.

Also, are you keeping your menus? You can split your movie with DVD Shrink's re-authoring mode. Though this guide (http://www.dvdshrink.info/splitting-v2-3.php) is using v2.3, the concept is still the same with current version. It's just a matter of dragging and setting start/end frames.