Double Sided DVD - Single

Necrosis · Jun 20, 2004, 10:38 PM

Does anyone know of a program that will allow me to combine a double sided DVD to a single sided? It would be great once I have the DVD on my HD to be able to combine the two backups, then be able to burn that backup as a single dvd. I have a number of older DVD's (Example: Stargate) which are double sided single layer that I would like to combine.

MindlessOath · Jun 21, 2004, 12:03 AM

www.doom9.org has all the guides you need. DVD shrink is probably the esayest and fastest, but certainly not the best looking, and not a whole lot of feeatures. hope that helps.

No_Style · Jun 21, 2004, 12:28 AM

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Originally posted by Necrosis
Does anyone know of a program that will allow me to combine a double sided DVD to a single sided? It would be great once I have the DVD on my HD to be able to combine the two backups, then be able to burn that backup as a single dvd. I have a number of older DVD's (Example: Stargate) which are double sided single layer that I would like to combine.

Umm.. Are you asking to combine.. 7.4 GB or more data into a 4.7 GB DVD?

Well, it is possible to do that, but you'll have to downgrade the quality of all the video and audio in the Double Sided DVD to make it fit on the Single DVD. It depends on how much data is in it. I believe DVDXCopy can do it (Not 100% sure) but you'll have to obtain an older version of it since the newest version doesn't do CSS Protection.

1) Find out the total size of the DVD
2) Try DVDXCopy Xpress GOLD

Necrosis · Jun 21, 2004, 12:43 AM

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Originally posted by No_Style
Umm.. Are you asking to combine.. 7.4 GB or more data into a 4.7 GB DVD? Well, it is possible to do that, but you'll have to downgrade the quality of all the video and audio in the Double Sided DVD to make it fit on the Single DVD. It depends on how much data is in it. I believe DVDXCopy can do it (Not 100% sure) but you'll have to obtain an older version of it since the newest version doesn't do CSS Protection.

1) Find out the total size of the DVD
2) Try DVDXCopy Xpress GOLD

Actually what I'm talking about is the DVD's prior to DL. Double sided DVD's with 4.7GB on each side of the disk. I think I have tried using an earlier version of X Copy Plat. and coudn't figure out how to do it. However, I am taking a look at the doom9 site. In which DVD Shrink "might" be able to do the job. I'm also wondering if Vegas couldn't be used to paste it together as well. I might have to rip it to an avi format for that though, and I'm not thrilled about that.

Vampyromaniac · Jun 21, 2004, 02:53 AM

I'm not sure you'll be able to make a playable DVD from what is essentially 2 seperate DVD's. You may be able to combine the video, but then there's the IFO's which have to keep track of everything, and how would the menu's be combined into one? I don't think this one is possible in the official DVD format, bud.

Necrosis · Jun 21, 2004, 03:09 AM

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Originally posted by Vampyromaniac
I'm not sure you'll be able to make a playable DVD from what is essentially 2 seperate DVD's. You may be able to combine the video, but then there's the IFO's which have to keep track of everything, and how would the menu's be combined into one? I don't think this one is possible in the official DVD format, bud.

I haven't messed around with this too much yet, but I didn't think about the IFO's. I wonder if I could use that IFO editor? I'm not too worried about the menu's I just want the movie nothing else.

No_Style · Jun 21, 2004, 04:19 AM

I was wondering the same thing about Spider-Man DVD..You might want to take a look at splitting it.. DVD Shrink might work as well, but I really dislike degrading quality...

pr0digal jenius · Jun 21, 2004, 06:09 AM

what you'll have to do is rip both sides to seperate AVI files, combine those AVI's then reauthor that file to a DVD so that it writes chapters/IFOs/etc properly...and you can make the menu work right

MindlessOath · Jun 21, 2004, 07:15 AM

you can always ask this question in the www.doom9.org forums, or search for it, i know its probably been asked before. and if not, u could ask it, i will bet to u someone will for sure give u a definate answer.,.. you can even link here as refrence.

**dj_stick** · Jun 21, 2004, 08:26 AM

there is a program i have called DVD2ONE i think that may work

MindlessOath · Jun 21, 2004, 05:46 PM

you would probably have to rip both sides of the dvd onto the hard drive.
then use an application that can re-code them and compress them down to fit on one sided disk. if your using DVD-9 it should fit all on their, unless its to big, then of course thats where the compression comes in.

virtualdub can do it i know for sure (combine two sources) but then it depends how you want to do everything. like encode to divx and then combine then encode to dvd standard. its very possible that dvd2one might work, i havent used that one at all.

again good luck

Vampyromaniac · Jun 22, 2004, 08:12 AM

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Originally posted by Necrosis
I haven't messed around with this too much yet, but I didn't think about the IFO's. I wonder if I could use that IFO editor? I'm not too worried about the menu's I just want the movie nothing else.

If you can get an authoring program to put all the VOB's together on one disc, and tell it to play the first VOB of the 2nd set right after the last VOB of the first set, might that work? I don't know, I've never seen a video-only DVD before. Take a look at some authoring programs, that would be my guess.
I assume you're putting all this on a dual-layer disc, right ?

WildChild · Jul 9, 2004, 03:33 AM

I did this with Stephen King's "IT" double sided dvd, I encoded them both as an mpg, then edited them together in Pinnacle 9 ...remade the mpg as one big one, let it re-encode it into the new whole mpg(both dvd mpg's) created the .vob .ifo .bup files in Ulead DVD Factory, once these were created ...open them up in DVDShrink and compress and burn.

Hope this helped.

WC

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Originally posted by Necrosis
Does anyone know of a program that will allow me to combine a double sided DVD to a single sided? It would be great once I have the DVD on my HD to be able to combine the two backups, then be able to burn that backup as a single dvd. I have a number of older DVD's (Example: Stargate) which are double sided single layer that I would like to combine.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Jul 9, 2004, 10:00 AM

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Originally posted by Necrosis
I haven't messed around with this too much yet, but I didn't think about the IFO's. I wonder if I could use that IFO editor? I'm not too worried about the menu's I just want the movie nothing else.

the long way

USE dvd shrink, remaster mode, compression is you choice but i wouln't both with much, to select just the movie on each side's

look at the sizes your going to want to use
then use auto gardian knot to rip them into a siungle divix or Xvid file no compression an it'll tak forever

(you can compress to xvid or divix to singe dvd size if (look at each file to see appriate compression use a % but gotta use the same on both 1/2's

then you can use TMPGEnc (the tools menu) to join the two mpegs into one movie fpr pc or a dvd player with xvid divix capblities or you can convert the single file to regular DVD playable mpeg2 format with compression set acordingly to make it fit on one dvd

but it'll take forvever

Necrosis · Jul 12, 2004, 02:42 AM

Thanks for the all the replies folks. I ended up using DVD Shrink. Here is the guide I used.

Jun 20, 2004, 10:38 PM	#1
Necrosis HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 8,838 Rep Power: 131 System Specs	Double Sided DVD - Single Does anyone know of a program that will allow me to combine a double sided DVD to a single sided? It would be great once I have the DVD on my HD to be able to combine the two backups, then be able to burn that backup as a single dvd. I have a number of older DVD's (Example: Stargate) which are double sided single layer that I would like to combine.

Jun 21, 2004, 12:03 AM	#2
MindlessOath DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,121 Rep Power: 0	www.doom9.org has all the guides you need. DVD shrink is probably the esayest and fastest, but certainly not the best looking, and not a whole lot of feeatures. hope that helps. __________________ ATI Radeon X800XT PE <---- LOOK UPDATED!! AMD Athlon 2Ghz, nforce2, 512mb ddr3500 LINKS U SHOULD KNOW!!!! DriverCleaner - use every time u install new drivers! ATI driver feedback - to report driver problems Tacticalcenter - my Gaming website and forums ATI 3rd party Optimized Driver Compairison

Jun 21, 2004, 02:53 AM	#5
Vampyromaniac confutatis maledictis Join Date: May 2002 Location: somewhere dark Posts: 5,974 Rep Power: 77 System Specs	I'm not sure you'll be able to make a playable DVD from what is essentially 2 seperate DVD's. You may be able to combine the video, but then there's the IFO's which have to keep track of everything, and how would the menu's be combined into one? I don't think this one is possible in the official DVD format, bud. __________________ *Digitalis 3.3* Athlon 64 3000 // ASUS K8V SE Deluxe // 1024MB PC3200 (2-2-2-10 1T) ATI All-In-Wonder 9700 Pro // 20" Dell 2005FPW (DVI) M-Audio Revo 7.1 + Philips Acoustic Edge // Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 320/16 Western Digital WD3200KS + 120/8 Seagate 7200.7 NEC ND-3550A 16x DVD±RW + Lite-On 52x24x CD-RW Antec Sonata case // 480W Antec TruePower personal bests \|\| Aq'3: 46796 \| 3D'01: 20461 \| 3D'03: 6336 \| 3D'05: 2677 \| PC'04: 4605 \| PC'02: 7691,9092,1250

Jun 21, 2004, 04:19 AM	#7
No_Style Styleless Wonder Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Ottawa, Ontario Posts: 6,034 Rep Power: 0	Hmm.. I was wondering the same thing about Spider-Man DVD..You might want to take a look at splitting it.. DVD Shrink might work as well, but I really dislike degrading quality... __________________ "The Best Style Is No Style" Specifications Here

Jun 21, 2004, 07:15 AM	#9
MindlessOath DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,121 Rep Power: 0	you can always ask this question in the www.doom9.org forums, or search for it, i know its probably been asked before. and if not, u could ask it, i will bet to u someone will for sure give u a definate answer.,.. you can even link here as refrence. __________________ ATI Radeon X800XT PE <---- LOOK UPDATED!! AMD Athlon 2Ghz, nforce2, 512mb ddr3500 LINKS U SHOULD KNOW!!!! DriverCleaner - use every time u install new drivers! ATI driver feedback - to report driver problems Tacticalcenter - my Gaming website and forums ATI 3rd party Optimized Driver Compairison

Jun 21, 2004, 06:09 AM	#8
pr0digal jenius Delete Me Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 14,648 Rep Power: 0	what you'll have to do is rip both sides to seperate AVI files, combine those AVI's then reauthor that file to a DVD so that it writes chapters/IFOs/etc properly...and you can make the menu work right

Jun 21, 2004, 05:46 PM	#11
MindlessOath DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,121 Rep Power: 0	you would probably have to rip both sides of the dvd onto the hard drive. then use an application that can re-code them and compress them down to fit on one sided disk. if your using DVD-9 it should fit all on their, unless its to big, then of course thats where the compression comes in. virtualdub can do it i know for sure (combine two sources) but then it depends how you want to do everything. like encode to divx and then combine then encode to dvd standard. its very possible that dvd2one might work, i havent used that one at all. again good luck __________________ ATI Radeon X800XT PE <---- LOOK UPDATED!! AMD Athlon 2Ghz, nforce2, 512mb ddr3500 LINKS U SHOULD KNOW!!!! DriverCleaner - use every time u install new drivers! ATI driver feedback - to report driver problems Tacticalcenter - my Gaming website and forums ATI 3rd party Optimized Driver Compairison

Jul 12, 2004, 02:42 AM	Thread Starter #15
Necrosis HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 8,838 Rep Power: 131 System Specs	Thanks for the all the replies folks. I ended up using DVD Shrink. Here is the guide I used.