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

[Roberto Sebastiani]

Nico (and others)
I correct myself: this technique seems not to work:

>
> (...) otherwise move every VTS_01_n.{VOB,IFO} as 
> VTS_m_n.{VOB,IFO} to
> the same folder and run dvdauthor -o <folder> -T

I've done what you suggest, and then burn everything by k3b.
UNfortunately, two dinstinct dvdplayers read only the part corresponding 
to the first mini-dvd.
Also, I notive that no VIDEO_TS.VOB file is generated.

Any clue?

Roberto

PS: I list the exact sequence of actions I performed from 3 dirs
DISK1, DISK2 and DISK3 into one TARGET:



[rseba at coccobill ~/Desktop]$ d DISK*/VIDEO_TS
DISK1/VIDEO_TS:
total 1065656
      20 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba      14336 Nov 24  2005 VIDEO_TS.BUP
      20 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba      14336 Nov 24  2005 VIDEO_TS.IFO
     488 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba     491520 Nov 24  2005 VIDEO_TS.VOB
      36 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba      32768 Nov 24  2005 VTS_01_0.BUP
      36 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba      32768 Nov 24  2005 VTS_01_0.IFO
1049576 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba 1073709056 Nov 23  2005 VTS_01_1.VOB
   15480 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba   15826944 Nov 23  2005 VTS_01_2.VOB

DISK2/VIDEO_TS:
total 1366760
      20 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba      16384 Nov 25  2005 VIDEO_TS.BUP
      20 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba      16384 Nov 25  2005 VIDEO_TS.IFO
     776 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba     786432 Nov 25  2005 VIDEO_TS.VOB
      40 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba      36864 Nov 25  2005 VTS_01_0.BUP
      40 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba      36864 Nov 25  2005 VTS_01_0.IFO
1049576 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba 1073709056 Nov 24  2005 VTS_01_1.VOB
  316288 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba  323551232 Nov 24  2005 VTS_01_2.VOB

DISK3/VIDEO_TS:
total 763892
     16 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba     12288 Dec  8  2005 VIDEO_TS.BUP
     16 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba     12288 Dec  8  2005 VIDEO_TS.IFO
    200 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba    196608 Dec  8  2005 VIDEO_TS.VOB
     28 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba     24576 Dec  3  2005 VTS_01_0.BUP
     28 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba     24576 Dec 31 16:12 VTS_01_0.IFO
763604 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba 781156352 Dec 31 16:13 VTS_01_1.VOB
[rseba at coccobill ~/Desktop]$ d TARGET/VIDEO_TS
total 3194628
      36 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba      32768 Jan  1 16:48 VTS_01_0.IFO
1049576 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba 1073709056 Jan  1 16:50 VTS_01_1.VOB
   15480 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba   15826944 Jan  1 16:50 VTS_01_2.VOB
      40 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba      36864 Jan  1 16:50 VTS_02_0.IFO
1049576 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba 1073709056 Jan  1 16:52 VTS_02_1.VOB
  316288 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba  323551232 Jan  1 16:53 VTS_02_2.VOB
      28 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba      24576 Jan  1 16:53 VTS_03_0.IFO
  763604 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba  781156352 Jan  1 16:54 VTS_03_1.VOB
[rseba at coccobill ~/Desktop]$ dvdauthor -o TARGET -T
DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.11.
Build options: gnugetopt iconv freetype fribidi
Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users at lists.sourceforge.net>

INFO: dvdauthor creating table of contents
INFO: Scanning TARGET/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO
INFO: Scanning TARGET/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.IFO
INFO: Scanning TARGET/VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_0.IFO
[rseba at coccobill ~/Desktop]$ d TARGET/VIDEO_TS
total 3194652
      12 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba       8192 Jan  1 17:18 VIDEO_TS.BUP
      12 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba       8192 Jan  1 17:18 VIDEO_TS.IFO
      36 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba      32768 Jan  1 16:48 VTS_01_0.IFO
1049576 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba 1073709056 Jan  1 16:50 VTS_01_1.VOB
   15480 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba   15826944 Jan  1 16:50 VTS_01_2.VOB
      40 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba      36864 Jan  1 16:50 VTS_02_0.IFO
1049576 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba 1073709056 Jan  1 16:52 VTS_02_1.VOB
  316288 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba  323551232 Jan  1 16:53 VTS_02_2.VOB
      28 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba      24576 Jan  1 16:53 VTS_03_0.IFO
  763604 -rw-r--r-- 1 rseba rseba  781156352 Jan  1 16:54 VTS_03_1.VOB
[rseba at coccobill ~/Desktop]$



On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Nico Sabbi wrote:

> 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
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