OT: Program Utility

JimMSG wrote on 3/2/2007, 11:04 AM
A client brought in a DVD for duplication. It is a short little hotel promo piece, running about two minutes and repeating. Unfortunately she would like it also in a non-repeating version. I didn't do the original disc so I don't have the elements to reconstruct for her. I could rip it and redo it in DVDA, but then I've got a rip a rerender etc. to degrade the quality of the video.

It seems to me as all that is necessary is to change the command at the end of the movie, all I should have to do is download the disc to my hard drive, find a utility to change the coding for the end of movie, change it from repeat to end, and reburn it to a new DVD.

I haven't figured out any way to do this with DVDA, so the question is - did I just miss it and there is a way to do that, or can anyone recommend a utility that will do that for me?

Thanks,

Jim

Comments

TLF wrote on 3/2/2007, 11:21 AM
If there is no menu, then yo could use TMPGEnc DVD Author to reauthor. The program allows you to select titles from a DVD to recreate a new one. Very useful tool. A dem is available.

If there is a menu, or you need more control, then use IFO Edit, a free tool and very powerful. You do need to understand how DVDs work 'behind the scenes' to make sense of it.

I can't recall the links, but check at www.videohelp.com for more information.

Worley
MPM wrote on 3/2/2007, 1:44 PM
You shouldn't need to re-render... Use PgcDemux directly off the disc to get the m2v & ac3 you'll need to import into DVDA. If your version of DVDA won't import m2v, mux it using TMPGEnc's mpg tools or similar, without providing an audio file -- should come into DVDA then.

For re-editing the DVD, copy to hdd and use PgcEdit or IfoEdit as mentioned.

Assuming no menu -- just repeating kiosk video -- might be DVD with simple end action calling movie again... If so quickest & easiest would be to feed separate m2v & ac3 into muxman. Only wrinkle I can think of is if subs are used, & PgcDemux & muxman will handle that too -- just need to set sub color in either Ifoedit or one of the other apps at videohelp. If the DVD's protected -- can't imagine it being protected but if it is -- DVDFabDecryptor
GeorgeW wrote on 3/2/2007, 1:53 PM
Do you want ONE DVD with menu options to "Play Once" or "Loop Play"?

Or do you want separate DVD's -- one that Loops, the other that plays only once?

If separate DVD's, then I'd go with the utilities already mentioned to change the navigation.

If ONE DVD is desired, copy it to your HDD, and then just move the corresponding VOB to your DVDA menu (works in DVDA4, not sure about earlier versions). The entire video should be in one VOB (unless they repeated the video multiple times instead of using navigation controls). Re-author as needed (button to play loop, and button to play once).

NOTE: as mentioned earlier in this thread, this assumes the source is not protected...