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. -- Jim Kaufman Linux Evangelist public key 0x6D802619 CCNA, CISSP# 65668