Posted by WinField on 09/09/07 18:55

Have you ever studied assembly language? Hex codes and registers?
That is what lies beneath DVD menus and navigation.

You will not have a playable DVD if you just try to split the files
you see "by the numbers".

The easiest way to get a DVD disc burn that works is to let DVDShrink
compress your + 7 gigs into a standard 4.7 gig size. You may notice a
slight loss of quality using this option.

You can "split" the (DVD-9) +7 gig disc into two (DVD-5) 4.7 gig
discs. Not you on your own, but by using a program such as CloneDVD2.

There are more potential problems here. If you decide to keep any
menus, some programs will only give you those menus on disc-#1. Disc #2
will be the last half of the movie/video only.

Elaborate Bytes CloneDVD2 can give you the original main menu on both
discs. Usually the navigation works for disc#2. Sometimes things get
goofy.

Or, get a friend that has a dual-layer burner burn your complete movie
onto a single (D)ua(L)ayer-disc. Then you better hope your stand-alone
DVD player will play it. A lot of players will not.

good luck,
- winfield


Mike T. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've never burned this type of disc before. I have a 2-DVD set that I want
> to burn with Nero 6. Here are my files:
>
> 09.09.2007 12:40 14.336 VIDEO_TS.BUP
> 09.09.2007 12:40 14.336 VIDEO_TS.IFO
> 09.09.2007 12:40 178.176 VIDEO_TS.VOB
> 09.09.2007 12:40 36.864 VTS_01_0.BUP
> 09.09.2007 12:40 36.864 VTS_01_0.IFO
> 09.09.2007 12:40 124.946.432 VTS_01_0.VOB
> 04.09.2007 05:53 32.768 VTS_01_1.VOB
> 04.09.2007 05:53 106.496 VTS_02_0.BUP
> 04.09.2007 05:53 106.496 VTS_02_0.IFO
> 04.09.2007 05:53 178.176 VTS_02_0.VOB
> 09.09.2007 12:40 1.073.565.696 VTS_02_1.VOB
> 09.09.2007 12:40 1.073.565.696 VTS_02_2.VOB
> 09.09.2007 12:40 1.073.565.696 VTS_02_3.VOB
> 09.09.2007 12:40 1.073.565.696 VTS_02_4.VOB
> 09.09.2007 12:40 1.073.565.696 VTS_02_5.VOB
> 09.09.2007 12:40 1.073.565.696 VTS_02_6.VOB
> 09.09.2007 12:40 1.073.565.696 VTS_02_7.VOB
> 09.09.2007 12:40 505.161.728 VTS_02_8.VOB
>
> My question is this: Do the files VTS_01*.* go on the first disc and the
> VTS_02*.* files on the second? Also, what about the three VIDEO_TS.* files?
> If theis is the case, the VTS02 files are well over 7 GB, while the DVDs are
> 4.7 GB max. How would I go about burning this?
>
> Thanks!
> Mike

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