Best way to remove advertisement from DVD?

[Superstar]

What's the best way to remove an advertisement for a website from the beginning of a homemade DVD? Would it just put it into something like Womble & just delete it that way, or would that throw off the audio sync for the rest of the DVD?

[lordsmurf]

Just remove it with Womble. You'd have to decompile the disc and re-author it, of course.
There several ways this could be done.

[Superstar]

When you say I'd have to decompile the DVD & re-author it, how exactly would I do both?

I don't think I've ever decompiled anything before. Do I need a certain program to do that with?

As far as re-authoring, what's the steps & programs needed to do that? The DVDs have music on the main menu, as well as chapters on them.

[lordsmurf]

De-compile:

DVD Decrypter IFO mode is first, which gives you VOB (audio, video, subtitles, nav data). Then demux the MPEG video and audio in one of several programs -- for example, TMPGEnc Plus 2.5

Re-author:

Use something like TMPGEnc Authoring Works, TMPGEnc DVD Author, Ulead DVD Workshop 2, or DVD Studio Pro (Mac). Import the assets (audio, video, subs, images/menu, etc).

If you want a menu similar to the last one, then it will take some effort. One way to do it is to find the menu VOB (also rip it in DVD Decrypter), open in VirtualDub, take screen caps, and then open the screen cap in Photoshop. But in most cases, I prefer to take this time to upgrade the menu to something better, Usually, when I have to fix a disc, the menu sucked too.

THIS PROCESS IS NOT EASY!

It's not for complete DVD novices.

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