[MEncoder-users] merging 30' DVDs into one?

[Nico Sabbi]

Roberto Sebastiani wrote:

> Hi. I'm a very new to the usage of mencoder, so please forgive me for 
> the naiveness of the question.
>
> I've a video-camera (sony dcr-dvd105) saving the movies on 1.4GB
> mini-dvds (about 30-minutes in standard-play mode) in dvd
>
> Is there a way to "concat" 3-4 mini-dvd's into one, that is,
> to encode in sequance the content of 3-4 mini-dvd into only one
> 4.3GB dvd format, without loss of quality (and possibly without 
> loosing the "scene" informations of the ifo files?
>
> Thanks
>
> Roberto

-of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd:tsaf -o total.mpg -dvd-device /dvdir1 
dvd:// -dvd-device /dvdir2 dvd:// \
... -dvd-device /dvdir30 dvd://

but scenes will be lost, otherwise move every VTS_01_n.{VOB,IFO} as 
VTS_m_n.{VOB,IFO} to
the same folder and run dvdauthor -o <folder> -T