DVD Help...

[Nick Graham]

Is there a program (similar to CD WAV) that can split and track DVDs? I ask because I recently received a DVD+R as one long track, no chapter marks, menus, nothing...just 80 minutes of video burned with a standalone DVD burner.

I'd like to split it into chapters, make a menu, etc. Any help you can give will be not only much appreciated, but garner many a +T.

Nick

p.s. this is probably supposed to go in the "Video/Photography" forum...but hey, I'm asking tapers...

[F.O.Bean]

dvd shrink

you can re-author it

[thierryhenry]

tmPgenc or something. That's a good video editing DVD program.

[hyperplane]

Is there a program (similar to CD WAV) that can split and track DVDs? I ask because I recently received a DVD+R as one long track, no chapter marks, menus, nothing...just 80 minutes of video burned with a standalone DVD burner.

I'd like to split it into chapters, make a menu, etc. Any help you can give will be not only much appreciated, but garner many a +T.

Nick

p.s. this is probably supposed to go in the "Video/Photography" forum...but hey, I'm asking tapers...

i'm not too terribly familiar with DVDShrink, so i didn't know one could author DVDs using it.

but there are lots of decent software applications to author DVDs with (which is almost always needed, IMO, when a video is burned to DVD using a standalone recorder). basically, here's how you go about it:

1) use SmartRipper to rip the DVD to your hard drive; select Stream Processing, and make sure the video and audio track are set to "Demux to extra file"; click on the Settings button, and set it to "split by filesize" and set the max filesize to 8000... then click on the Rip button (forgot what it's called). that will give you the 'raw' video track (.m2v) and raw audio track (probably .ac3).

2) use a DVD authoring program - Ulead DVD Workshop is decent at authoring DVDs, and it's pretty easy to learn (a lot of drag & drop type stuff). you make the menus how you want, insert chapter points (a.k.a. "tracks" like on an audio CD), then click on "compile."

3) burn it to DVD±R(W). (you may want to burn it to a DVDRW disc at first, to see how it came out, before burning to a single-write disc.) i prefer RecordNow Max for burning DVDs, but i think the newer versions of Nero are stable and do it decently.