How Do You Properly Make Episodic DVDs

[tazman12]

I have ripped the entire DVD of Farscape, Season One to my HD. It has the premiere and " I, E.T." on it. I have used IFOEdit to pick the "main movie" VOBs. I have pulled off all menu's and subtitles. I successfully burnt the DVD. But when I played it back, I have exactly half of the original DVD. It plays perfectly, except that it is exactly half the episodes.

I have looked at all the files from the rip. Both DVD Decrypter and IFO Edit are saying that VTS_07_1,2,3.VOB are the "main movie" files.

I have looked at the other VOB files on the ripped directory. I can tell that VTS_11_1,2,3.VOB is the exact same amount of time as VTS_07s. The idividual lengths are different, but the total play back time is the same. 50 minutes and 17 seconds.

Based on the fact that the original DVD advertises an approx running time of 100 minutes, I can only conclude that VTS_7 and VTS_11 are the VOB files that contain the episodes.

I would appreciate a link to directions that detail how to properly make complete episodic DVD's...even if it requires more than one DVD to get it done.

Thanks in advance to all.

[setarip]

Use DVDDecrypter to rip the ENTIRE DVD to your hard drive. Then use either DVD2One, DVD95Copy, or (freeware) DVDShrink, to (if more than 4.36Gigs) compress (select "Full Disk") to single layer DVD size...

[tazman12]

This option will work even on episodic DVDs? Just wanted to make sure.

I'll try and let you know about success.

THanks for the response.

[Red96TA]

It'll work fine. Just check the folder with the compressed files with powerdvd or windvd to make sure it's working fine...I haven't had any problems with dvd2one ver. 1.11

[tazman12]

Just out of curiousity...what is the amount over 4.36GB is the limit? I would assume there has to be one. Thanks for the help!

[setarip]

I've yielded very satisfactory results with DVDs that contained as much as 9.1Gigs on them (There's usually a lot of "padding" in the files).