How To: Use Windows to join large DVDs and encode with HB

[lenny]

In regards to DVD2OneX not being able to create a video_ts output folder greater than 9GB...

Is there a mac *or* pc solution to this? What is the chance that handbrake could get this functionality (multiple video_ts source folders) natively?

[rhester]

There is virtually no chance this will ever be supported by HandBrake.

That having been said, it is still possible.

If you use DVDRemakePro on Windows, you can copy/join PGCs into a remastered DVD that is, in fact, larger than a DVD-9. It will throw several dozen errors in the export process, but it will do it.

What you will end up with is more than 9 VOBs, and that is so far out of spec nothing will read it.

The solution? Combine VOB 9 and every one after into one super-large VOB 9 (copy /b ... + /b ... +, etc. works well for this).

At this point, HandBrake will happily scan, read, and convert your still out-of-compliance content...and is one of very, very few tools that will, I might add.

Good luck!

Rodney

[lenny]

Thanks Rodney

I understand this part of the forum is supposed to be "mac only" so if we need to move my post that's ok with me.

Here's how it went. In DVDRemake Pro I imported both DVD's (previously stripped to only one PGC each in DVD2OneX). I copy and "appended" the PGC from the second disk to the first disk and exported. It only threw one error, saying that I had more than 9 vobs and that was a bad thing.

Just for fun, I tried handbrake at this point and the title was 03h10m08s long.

Then I used "cat" in mac's terminal to merge vob 9 and vob 10. "cat old9.vob old10.vob > VTS_01_9.VOB"

I tried handbrake again and got the same time for the title.

Here's the problem. Unlike DVD2OneX's process, this process in DVDRemake Pro doesn't merge the chapters when combining PGC's. When I opened the output in handbrake it only showed the chapters from the first disc. Any ideas?

[rhester]

Here's how it went. In DVDRemake Pro I imported both DVD's (previously stripped to only one PGC each in DVD2OneX). I copy and "appended" the PGC from the second disk to the first disk and exported. It only threw one error, saying that I had more than 9 vobs and that was a bad thing.

Right.

Just for fun, I tried handbrake at this point and the title was 03h10m08s long.

It's getting that from the IFO, not the VOB. At this point, it's wrong.

Then I used "cat" in mac's terminal to merge vob 9 and vob 10. "cat old9.vob old10.vob > VTS_01_9.VOB"

I tried handbrake again and got the same time for the title.

Except now it actually has the data to go along with it.

Here's the problem. Unlike DVD2OneX's process, this process in DVDRemake Pro doesn't merge the chapters when combining PGC's. When I opened the output in handbrake it only showed the chapters from the first disc. Any ideas?

I've never much cared about chapter breaks in my rips, so I've never paid attention to this. Short of somehow manually creating the chapter breaks on the second PGC post-merge within DVDRemake Pro, I can't think of another solution to this.

Rodney

[Cavalicious]

Please create a new thread in regards to DVDRemake fed content if anymore help is needed. Would like to keep this thread focused and clean (as possible).

[rhester]

Done.

Rodney