Splitting DVD-9 video to DVD-5

[Anthony Messina]

Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> On Saturday 11 February 2006 17:14, Anthony Messina wrote:
> 
>>Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>I am trying to find a way to backup my DVD movie. A lot of HowTo talks
>>>about shrinking and requantising (sp ?) the movie so that it'll fit to a
>>>single layer DVD-R. However, I want instead to just keep everything in
>>>the main feature (the video steam, audio streams, subtitles) and somehow
>>>record it to two single layer DVD-R.
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>if the original disc is encrypted (and it likely is if it's a commercial
>>one), then you cannot just copy the vob files.  you would need to use a
>>program like dvdbackup which will give you the option of backing up the
>>whole disc or just whatever title you want.  or you can use dvd9to5.pl
>>which is a perl script that will shrink the main title of the dvd from a
>>dual layer (as most commercial dvds are) to a normal 4.7gig disc.  doing
>>either of these things may be illegal depending on where you reside. 
>>but...
>>
>>google for dvdbackup and/or dvd9to5.pl
> 
> 
> You seems to misunderstood what I am asking. If you read my email, you'll see 
> that I know about dvdbackup and all that. Basically I do *not* want to shrink 
> my DVD to fit a regular DVD-R. Instead I want a tool that let me split the 
> original DVD, with the original quality, sound streams, substitles, etc, to 
> two DVD-R and create a valid DVD Video structure. I don't need the menu and 
> extras, just the main feature film. Is there such tool ?
> 

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?

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