[ldoodle]

Hiya,


After much testing with mkv, m2ts, ts and VIDEO_TS I have decided on VIDEO_TS. I will think about BluRays later on!


One question that comes to mind is what to do with films split across multiple sides of 1 disk or multiple disks. I don't want seperate folders for Godfather Part II Disc 1 and Godfather Part II Disc 2 etc!


Any ideas?

 

[stanger89]

DVD Shrink can combine multiple discs. I did that with the EE LOTRs. There's a couple guides floating around the interwebs.

 

[ldoodle]

Thanks. Is it seamless and does it sort out chapter numbers and running times?


Oh how are the menus and chapters handled? I want to join them in such a way so it's as if it was a 1 disc film.

 

[stanger89]

It plays seamlessly, but merges them as two back to back titles, so the time isn't right. No menus. Unless you want to go in and manually reauthor all the menus AFAIK there's no way to keep them.

 

[ldoodle]

Arrrggghh!


This really all is a waste of space! MKVs can join nicely but it's too much hassle re subtitles and adjusting time codes. VIDEO_TS can't combine 2 disc films properly but does everything else OK.


I don't know what to do now. May just give up as there is not a true solution. I'm surprised i'm the only one who thinks this is a show stopper. It's like having the 2nd disc's video bolted onto the 1st discs entire structure!

 

[stanger89]

Joined DVDs play just fine, and chapters work too, so I'm not really sure what the big problem is.

 

[ttownfire]

Thanks for the heads up stranger!

 

[video321]

Haven't used it, but check out DVD Remake. I believe it can combine titles.

 

[ldoodle]



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Originally Posted by stanger89 /forum/post/18129636


Joined DVDs play just fine, and chapters work too, so I'm not really sure what the big problem is.

You're previous statement didn't say that though. Well that's not how I read it.


When I join 2 VIDEO_TS folders, I want the scene selection menu to have the chapters from both discs (or sides), as well as timecodes to be as if it was one disc.

 

[mslide]

I use DVD Remake to do this... link


Using DVD Remake, you can combine the two parts so it seems like one long, seamless movie instead of watching 2 movies back to back. That is, run-time will be correct, chapters will work back and forth between the 2 parts, etc. You can also do some simple editing to get rid of any intermission screens at the end of the first part. The process is a little more involved then using DVD Shrink though (plus, it's not a free program).


This is assuming you rip out just the main movies and don't care about menus, etc. I don't know how to do this and keep the menus without it being part 2 bolted onto part 1 (and thus having menus for each part instead of a single set of menus for one, really long movie).

 

[stanger89]



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Originally Posted by ldoodle /forum/post/18133646


You're previous statement didn't say that though. Well that's not how I read it.

Sorry for the confusion, if you merge two DVDs with DVD Shrink, they will play as a single move, back to back, you can skip chapters. However they are in fact two titles that are linked back to back so the timeline will reset half way through.

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When I join 2 VIDEO_TS folders, I want the scene selection menu to have the chapters from both discs (or sides),

There is absolutely no way to do that, you would have to build your own menus for that, there's no way to automatically merge the two sets of menus. So unless you're very good with Scenarist or similar you're SOL getting a nice merged menu.

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...as well as timecodes to be as if it was one disc.

Sounds like DVD Remake will merge them into one title though.