[dvd::rip] DVD to DVD


Response to message from David Miller (see below):

1) In my case the movie is a cartoon, which compresses down really well, so the .avi file I made was already down to about 2 GB. So I abandoned the original plan of making 2 DVDs. [In answer to the earlier question about "why are you doing this?", the original dual-layer DVD plays in my computer, but my DVD player doesn't handle it for some reason.]

2) I had an extra complication though: I wanted one of the subtitle tracks, and the simplest way to get it was to use dvdrip to render the subtitles directly into the .avi file it produced. That's why I didn't try to deal with the VOBs directly: they didn't have the subtitles in them.

3) If your original DVD doesn't have complications with multiple sound/subtitle tracks then I think you could just do what you said and split the VOBs into two groups and make one DVD from each using dvdauthor. Do you know how to use dvdauthor? I could show you some sample scripts to get you started.

On Thu, 10 May 2007, David G. Miller wrote:

Mark - I'm trying to do the same thing you described in your original post: take a fairly full double layer DVD and split it between two single layer DVDs, preferably without any loss. So far, I've gone down the same path as you. I can use DVD::Rip to create a lossy copy that fits on a single 4.7GB DVD. Sometimes that's good enough but sometimes it isn't. Seems to depend on the movie, the type of action and scenery, etc.

Have you tried burning a DVD with the big xvid files? When I try to use DVDstyler to create a DVD, it complains if the MPEG container bigger than 2GB. If you got the big .avi file to a physical DVD, did it work in a standalone DVD player?

Seems kind of weird that there isn't an easy way to just split the files of an original ISO into two sets and burn them separately. I was hoping for something along the lines of: make two copies of the full DVD and then go into each copy and delete half of the .VOB files, possible tweak some kind of content index and then bundle the now split DVD file structures back into ISOs.
Cheers,
Dave