Multiple DVD's on a Single DVD?
 

I was wondering if it was possible to burn multiple DVD's onto a single DVD without re-encoding.

To clarify: I have many children's DVDs that are quite short (~45 minutes each). Is there a way I can simply rip 3 or 4 DVDs to my HD, and then burn them onto a single DVD? Can this be done directly through Nero? What about DVD Lab? Or would I need to re-encode the whole thing?

Thanks!
Icarus

Re: Multiple DVD's on a Single DVD?
 

The short way is to use DVDShrink in "Reauthor" mode.

Drawback :
- quality of the image of course but as you don't want to reencode, you probably already supposed that.
- you loose the menu (no solution to keep the menu exists).
- you have to use the "title" select mode of you SAP to go directly to the next DVD. With some players, this is not convenient.

http://www.dvd-guides.com/content/view/46/59/

(other guides using other tools for the same thing : http://www.dvd-guides.com/content/category/3/78/59/)

Re: Multiple DVD's on a Single DVD?
 

Actually, DVDremake pro can do all this, keeping the original menu's! Only it doesn't reencode or transcode anything. A option is to rip to HDD, then shrink each dvd until the total of all the dvd's is 4,35 GB, and then use dvdremake pro to burn them.

Re: Multiple DVD's on a Single DVD?
 

I didn't know about DVDRemake. Don't you think the reverse situation is easier : First ripp, then remake, then shrink the final DVD ?

Re: Multiple DVD's on a Single DVD?
 

lol, yes that's a lot easier :lol: