Splitting DVD-9 video to DVD-5

[Anthony Messina]

Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to find a way to backup my DVD movie. A lot of HowTo talks about 
> shrinking and requantising (sp ?) the movie so that it'll fit to a single 
> layer DVD-R. However, I want instead to just keep everything in the main 
> feature (the video steam, audio streams, subtitles) and somehow record it to 
> two single layer DVD-R.
> 
> I can copy just the main feature of the a DVD video using dvdbackup. Then I'll 
> get a set of VOB files, for example: 
> VTS_01_1.VOB
> VTS_01_2.VOB 
> ... 
> VTS_01_8.VOB
> 
> Now here I got stuck. It seems that I need to do is just burn VTS_01_[1-4] to 
> a the first DVD-R, and burn the rest to the second DVD-R. But I need to 
> generate the correct IFO and dvd structure for those VOB. What tools can I 
> use to do that ? 
> 
> I've look at dvdauthor but could not figure out if it will do what I want, or 
> how to do it. I tried to just cat-ting the a set of VOBs, then run it pass 
> dvdauthor to see if it will create a correct DVD structures with the IFOs 
> files, but it complains about "SCR moves backward ... " and asked me to 
> re-multiplex. So I got stuck there.
> 
> Any help ?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Reuben D. B
> 
if the original disc is encrypted (and it likely is if it's a commercial 
one), then you cannot just copy the vob files.  you would need to use a 
program like dvdbackup which will give you the option of backing up the 
whole disc or just whatever title you want.  or you can use dvd9to5.pl 
which is a perl script that will shrink the main title of the dvd from a 
dual layer (as most commercial dvds are) to a normal 4.7gig disc.  doing 
either of these things may be illegal depending on where you reside.  but...

google for dvdbackup and/or dvd9to5.pl

also be aware that dvdbackup is unmaintained and will have dependancy 
issues with libdvdread if you install the latest version of libdvdread.

libdvdread is in the fc4 freshrpms repo --though you may need to get the 
version previous to the one that is offered there (due to the dependancy 
issue).

dvdbackup is in the fc4 rpmforge.net repo.

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