How to burn two DVDs on one disc

[tgunn2760]

Does anyone know if this can be done, and if yes, how?

I'd like to download both Mozart torrents, both are less than 4 GB so they should fit on one disc, if it can done.

Thanks in advance.

[U2Lynne]

I assume you mean burn a *playable* DVD (you can, of course, easily burn both shows to a DVD, but it just won't be playable in a DVD player). You will lose your menus, but it is doable. I believe there is a tutorial over on videohelp.com on how to do this. Perhaps someone can post a link to which tutorial they found to be the best.

[possessed]

With the price of discs being so cheap, why?

[tgunn2760]

Originally Posted by possessed

With the price of discs being so cheap, why?

Why have two discs when you can have one?

[tgunn2760]

Originally Posted by U2Lynne

I assume you mean burn a *playable* DVD (you can, of course, easily burn both shows to a DVD, but it just won't be playable in a DVD player). You will lose your menus, but it is doable. I believe there is a tutorial over on videohelp.com on how to do this. Perhaps someone can post a link to which tutorial they found to be the best.

I think DVD2One can do this, and I may have managed this before, I just can't remember right now...

If I remember correctly you do lose the menus, maybe even the chapters, but the DVD plays on a standalone.


The other option would be to reauthor both DVDs onto one disc, keep the chapters, if there are any, and create new menus.

[direwolf-pgh]

not a free program, but it does all the tedious work for you.

DVDFab www.dvdfab.com

ill use it if I need to split a dvd9 or merge a few short movies.

Merge: Combine several titles of several sources into one DVD:
Merge season DVDs to fewer discs.
Create your own special features collection disc.

Split: Copy a DVD-9 onto two DVD-5 discs with 100% quality, and preserve original menus on both discs. Ideal for episodic/season DVD movies, TV series, etc.

of course, you dont share back out these 'customized' discs.

[tgunn2760]

Originally Posted by direwolf-pgh

not a free program, but it does all the tedious work for you.

DVDFab www.dvdfab.com

ill use it if I need to split a dvd9 or merge a few short movies.

of course, you dont share back out these 'customized' discs.

If it can split a DVD9 into two DVD5s without compression, why not share it? It hasn't become lossy. Unless it re-encodes the video and/or audio.

[possessed]

Originally Posted by tgunn2760

Why have two discs when you can have one?

Originally Posted by tgunn2760

If I remember correctly you do lose the menus, maybe even the chapters, but the DVD plays on a standalone.


The other option would be to reauthor both DVDs onto one disc, keep the chapters, if there are any, and create new menus.

That would be why. I prefer the easy way.

[tgunn2760]

Originally Posted by possessed

That would be why. I prefer the easy way.

It wouldn't take up much time to reauthor a DVD if the DVD authoring software accepts DVD files.

The chapters are most likely 5-minute random, so you just import the two DVD folders, slap on a simple menu with 5 minute chapters, and burn one disc, not two.

DVD2One I think does the same thing, but without menus.

[possessed]

good to know.

[zebweber]

Originally Posted by tgunn2760

Does anyone know if this can be done, and if yes, how?

I'd like to download both Mozart torrents, both are less than 4 GB so they should fit on one disc, if it can done.

Thanks in advance.

find a free download of DVD Shrink here http://http://www.pcworld.com/downlo...scription.html,
then follow the steps shown in this tutorial:

http://www.dvdshrink.info/splitting-v2-3.php

It's true that you lose any cool menus there may have been, so you have to decide if you really want them or not - if not, then this is a great way to create a 'compilation' dvd...

happy shrinking!

Zeb

[tgunn2760]

Originally Posted by zebweber

find a free download of DVD Shrink here http://http://www.pcworld.com/downlo...scription.html,
then follow the steps shown in this tutorial:

http://www.dvdshrink.info/splitting-v2-3.php

It's true that you lose any cool menus there may have been, so you have to decide if you really want them or not - if not, then this is a great way to create a 'compilation' dvd...

happy shrinking!

Zeb

The link doesn't work, and I don't want to split, but merge two DVDs into one.

[direwolf-pgh]

(its just frowned upon)

[tgunn2760]

I wouldn't "seed" it, but sure as heck would trade it.

Dunno who would trade for classical music, but if someone wanted it I would pass it along.

Do you think everything that gets seeded here is lossless? Not the case.

I downloaded a Walsh compilation that has segment that is CVD. Whoever authored it must have ignored the warnings, the disc is full of errors and cannot be copied. And I can't reauthor it because some of the files are not DVD compliant.