Hate being a newbie

GeoHound,

Stick to one problem at a time, it's all EASY when you know how, until then it's VERY HARD.

How about splitting a DVD-9 disc to start with ?

To do this, you will need Smartripper & Ifoedit, to do the DVD backup stuff You will also need burning software, but I guess you already have that, judging by your first post.

Both these are available from the home page of Afterdawn > Software.

Install these and report back.

When you next report back, it might also be helpful if you post your PC setup, things like CPU type, operating system RAM etc.

If you don't mind splitting a movie to 2 discs, it's fairly straight forward, as DVDPlanet says.

HomerJ

 

Geohound,

I use XP with no problems, so lets give it a try. Ifoedit is a great programme, it does lots of different things, people never tell you what the exact problems are, so lets give it a shot.

First I’ll explain what we are going to do, then how to do it.

WHAT:

Before we start anything, we are going to create 4 directories. I use my drive F:\ so that’s the format I’ll use, you can choose what you like.

Their names are :- F:\disc1 F:\disc1 new ifo F:\disc2 F:\disc2 new ifo

We then use Smartripper to rip “Movie Only” (No extras ) BUT, we are ripping it twice, first time we rip half the Chapters (disc 1) 2nd rip does the 2nd half of the movie. It’s a bit rough and ready, but you should easily be able to get the VOBs on a single DVD-r.

For the purpose of this exercise our movie has 18 chapters.

HOW.

Before we open up Smartripper, Play your DVD movie for a few seconds, then close it down. You must do this so that Smartripper can “Unlock” the drive (daft I know but there it is).

Launch Smartripper, you should see a box open on the left of your screen, and then the main Smartripper screen. Click on the “Movie” Button. In the centre of the screen, a box marked “Chapters” each box has a tick in it, this means the Chapter has been selected to be ripped, but, we are only ripping the first half remember, so, scroll down, and check the no of Chapters. Un check the 2nd half (11 to 18 in our example).

At the bottom of the screen you will see a box marked “Target”. This is where we are going to copy the ripped files to. Click on the “Explorer” type icon, and select F:\disc1 and save as option vts_01

Just to be on the safe side, check Stream Processing Tab. The “Enable Stream Processing” Box MUST NOT BE CHECKED.

After that, hit Start, and it should rip the first half of the movie.

When it’s finished, go into the disc1 directory, you should have 3 VOB files vts_01_1 vts_01_2 vts_02_2 and a vts_01_0.ifo (there may be a *.txt file as well but that doesn’t matter)


OK, I’ll leave it here for now. It’s very important that stage has gone OK, otherwise it’s not worth carrying on.

HomerJ

 

Geohound,


Good, now for stage 2.

Open Ifoedit, click on “Open” bottom left of the screen, open the vts_01_0.ifo file in the “disc1” directory.

At the top of the screen click on “VOB extras>create new Ifos

This brings up the VOB extras Options.

The following options should be checked :-
Correct Vob-Unit (Navigation Pack)…..
Correct IFO tables with new VOB……..
Create new VIDEO_TS.IFO & VTS_01_0.IFO
Remove P-Uops
Remove Macrovision
Adjust Vob-Unit Pointers
Adjust Audio/Subp point

Then, under the File/Directory Paths, make “Destination directory” F:\disc1 new ifo

Then Click OK.

Ifoedit then starts to analyse your files, and write 4 new files into “disc 1 new ifos” directory. This might take 15-20 minutes.

When complete, shut down Ifoedit and go into Windows Explorer, and check to see that the 4 new files have bee written. These should be :-
VIDEO_TS.BUP
VIDEO_TS.IFO
VTS_01_0.BUP
VTS_01_0.IFO

Now, still in Explorer, got directory disc 1, and delete ALL files EXCEPT *.VOB files. Then copy across from disc 1 new ifos to disc 1 the 4 new files.

Nearly there now.

Re open Ifoedit, and open disc 1 directory, file :- VTS_01_0.IFO.

At the bottom of the screen click on “Get VTS sectors”.

Click OK every time Ifoedit prompts you, until complete.

Shutdown Ifoedit.

That’s it. You have now have a VOB set that will be small enough to burn and play in any settop box.

For the second half of the movie, just “uncheck the chapters 1-9 (or whatever) and place you file sin the disc 2 sections (just so you don’t muddle them up.

HomerJ

 

TommyG,

I use Nero (5.5.9.0) or DVD Factory, but I do believe you can use Ifoedit as well these days.

HomerJ

 

T2K,

Yes, I use it for burning disc images.

Main menu :select disc image

step 1 image name....

step 2 burn disc.

DONE.

HomerJ

 

T2K,

I think this thread is getting a bit off topic.

I'm waiting to hear from GeoHound to see if he/she has finally managed to split their DVD.

However, please feel free to satrt a new thread on the subject.

HomerJ