I am transferring my dvd collection over to my pixelmagic media player. I would like to combine the dvds that span over 2 discs like LOTR and Armageddon. I have tried various ripping software but they don't seem to work. LOTR has a DTS soundtrack and DVD Author Pro doesnt record the soundtrack.

Whats the best program to use to join 2 dvds?


My files are in vob format. I used this format so there is no compression. I just got rid of the unwanted soundtracks and subtitles.

I would like to put LOTR for instance into one file and have a chapter selection menu if possible, using the dts soundtrack.

All I can find at the moment is dvd author which wont let you do more than 8.5 gig or dts.

My dvd collection is standard definition. Have I done the correct thing in ripping the 200 dvds into vobs? This keeps the quality and compression the same as the original doesnt it?

All my dvds are stored on a terastation and played over a wired network.

Nero 7 merges the dvds too but again you can only output mpeg or avi. Isnt this going to reduce the quality by a large margin? I was hoping I could still merge them and keep them as vob files.

You could try DVD shrink. You wouldn't have a menu but you should be able to add both titles to the same project and output it uncompressed.

This is an easy question. rip the vobs like you are doing now. Preferably rip each one as one large file. Goto a command prompt and type...


copy /b file1.vob+file2.vob finalfile.vob

thats all! works great. this is how I do my multi dvd files

This is an easy question. rip the vobs like you are doing now. Preferably rip each one as one large file. Goto a command prompt and type...


copy /b file1.vob+file2.vob finalfile.vob

thats all! works great. this is how I do my multi dvd files

I dont understand. Each dvd produces 4 or 5 vob files not 1 using clonedvd2???

okay, then they probably look like vts_01_1.vob, vts_01_2.vob, etc for each disk.

copy /b c:\disk1\vts_01_1.vob+c:\disk1\vts_01_2.vob+c:\disk2\vts_01_ 1.vob+c:\disk2\vts_01_2.vob finalfile.vob

you will then have 1 big file called finalfile.vob that contains the entire movie with no breaks.