Friends and relatives have home DVDs they wanted to copy for other friends and relatives. Turns out this is rather easy. Use k3b:<\/p>\n
On the menu, choose Recently I got a request to combine movies on two discs. Now it’s getting interesting. This is a lot like the camcorder to DVD project<\/a> I did except it involves starting with DVDs as a source instead of miniDV tapes. A little research turned up ripping instructions<\/a>. Between these two references, I had enough to do the job.<\/p>\n The first step was to use k3b to rip the discs into two ISO files, If they’re OK, mount them on the loopback device:<\/p>\n Then copy the files from Unmount the ISO with Next, get convert them to mpeg2 files (from here<\/a>):<\/p>\n Next, create the XML file Test with xine: You can also create menus with dvdwizard (German site)<\/a> or dvdwizard dvdwizard 0.4.2c (English site)<\/a>. It’s all scripts, so extract it in \/usr\/local\/src and run it with a script like this: This will author a DVD in the directory If it looks OK, create an ISO: Friends and relatives have home DVDs they wanted to copy for other friends and relatives. Turns out this is rather easy. Use k3b: On the menu, choose Tools\/Copy DVD. Don’t forget there are three tabs worth of data to check. Recently I got a request to combine movies on two discs. Now it’s getting interesting. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tools<\/code>\/Copy DVD<\/code>. Don’t forget there are three tabs worth of data to check.<\/p>\nmovie1.iso<\/code> and movie2.iso<\/code>. Assuming movie1.iso<\/code> was in \/mnt\/bigfiles<\/code>, you could check it with xine dvd:\/\/\/mnt\/bigfiles\/movie1.iso<\/code>.<\/p>\nmkdir \/mnt\/iso
mount movie1.iso \/mnt\/iso -t udf -o loop=\/dev\/loop3<\/code><\/p>\n\/mnt\/iso\/VIDEO_TS<\/code> that are named VTS*.VOB<\/code>. These are the actual movie parts. Rename them from VTS_01_1.VOB<\/code> to movie1.vob<\/code> so you can tell them apart from the second movie.<\/p>\numount \/mnt\/iso<\/code> and repeat with the second movie.<\/p>\ntcextract -i movie1.vob -t vob -x mpeg2 > movie1.m2v
tcextract -i movie1.vob -a 0 -x ac3 -t vob > movie1.ac3
tcextract -i movie2.vob -t vob -x mpeg2 > movie2.m2v
tcextract -i movie2.vob -a 0 -x ac3 -t vob > movie2.ac3<\/code><\/p>\nmplex -f 8 -o movie1.mpg movie1.m2v movie1.ac3
mplex -f 8 -o movie2.mpg movie2.m2v movie2.ac3<\/code><\/p>\nboth_movies.xml<\/code>:<\/p>\n<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>
<dvdauthor>
<vmgm \/>
<titleset>
<titles>
<audio lang=\"en\"\/>
<pgc>
<vob file=\"movie1.vob\" \/>
<vob file=\"movie2.vob\" \/>
<\/pgc>
<\/titles>
<\/titleset>
<\/dvdauthor><\/pre>\nmkdir both_movies-dir
dvdauthor -o both_movies-dir\/ -x both_movies.xml<\/code><\/p>\n xine dvd:\/\/\/`pwd`\/both_movies-dir<\/code><\/p>\n#!\/bin\/sh
export PATH=${PATH}:\/usr\/local\/src\/dvdwizard-0.4.2c
dvdwizard -l dvdwizard.log -T \"Big Combined Movie\" -N NTSC -A en -t \"First Movie\" movie1.mpg -t \"Second Movie\" movie2.mpg
<\/code><\/p>\n.\/dvd<\/code>. Test it with xine dvd:\/\/\/`pwd`\/dvd<\/code>.<\/p>\nmkisofs -dvd-video -udf -o both_movies.iso dvd\/<\/code>. Then burn the ISO with k3b. Use the Tools\/Burn DVD ISO Image menu option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"