Re: Splitting DVD-9 video to DVD-5

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On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 02:20:56PM -0600, Anthony Messina wrote:
> Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> actually, i did read your email.  and from what i understood, you only 
> need to capture the main title, not the menus, etc.  i am unaware of a 
> program that will "split" a title between two dvd-r discs, however, more 
> often than not, the main title doesn't take up more than 1 dvd-r.  so 
> that is why i pointed to you dvdbackup which can backup just the main 
> title if you select it on the command line.  i also think you should 
> look at dvd9to5.pl and the reason i pointed you there is that it rips 
> only the main title by default and since it's a perl script, you can 
> edit the script (if you are familiar with scripts) and remove the 
> auto-calculation for tcrequant and just set it to 1 (which means that no 
> requant will be done).  you can also check out gopchop at 
> http://gopchop.org/ to see if that might help you, once you've ripped 
> the vobs from the disc with another program.  if you have never used 
> dvd::rip, you may want to look into it as their discussion boards have 
> included some talk about including dvd9to5.pl and dvd::rip already does 
> disc splitting for vcd and svcd.
> 
> aside, why do you want to copy it to two dvd-r instead of a dvd+r dual 
> layer?
> 

Some people don't have dual layer dvd writers.

The Windows world has a program called DVD Fab (Platinum) that will
split a DVD9 into two DVD5 files, ready to burn to two DVDs. It's
quite useful actually. I haven't found a Linux equivalent yet.

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Jim Kaufman
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