Saving a DVD

[DarkAmeba]

Lent Goldeneye, one of my prized Bond DVDs to my buddy, and got it back with a huge scratch on it. :| The DVD player wouldn't read it. I got to wondering if the DVD X Rescue function of DVD X Copy Platinum could save it. Lo and behold it did! It extracted all of the VOB's to my hard drive!

Now here's the problem. The original is a dual layer disk, about 6gb of data. Obviously, that's not going to be fitting onto a single layer disk without compression. I really don't want to use compression, as I watch the movies on my 2001fp, and compression produces a noticible degradation in picture quality. I can buy a new copy of the DVD for 9.99, so buying a DVD DL is out of the question.

Is there a program that will let me split the VOB files or an ISO image of the VOB files into two parts so I can copy the movie onto 2 single layer disks without compression??

 

[0roo0roo]

dvd fab or dvd shrink or clonedvd
dvdfab does a messy chop, shoving all the extras at the end of the 2nd disc i think, no menus
dvd shrink lets you rearange stuff .. so u can split the film, add extras at the end of disc, no menus with split(authoring) mode
clonedvd is finicky, but allows you to split with menus intact, putting extras on whichever disc, or splitting those too. whatever is not on the disc just has a nonworking menu item. its a little iffy on the compression though. i just set it so that it says 100% quality at dvd5 size, then ramp it up to 7gb or whatever as target size so that it will reliably turn off the transcoder.

 

[bendixG15]

Tell your "buddy" that he ruined your disk and needs to replace it.
Then you'll know if he's really your "buddy".

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: bendixG15
Tell your "buddy" that he ruined your disk and needs to replace it.
Then you'll know if he's really your "buddy".

Yes exactly me sentiments,you borrow something then you should take care of it.

Since you were kind enough to lend it to him you shouldn't be left holding the Short end of the stick.