Hello all,
I've been backing up my DVD collection and putting it on my NAS to stream through my bluray player, and the encoding is working fine. I'm using x264 CRF 18 or 20 and just muxing the studio audio. The problem I'm having at the moment is that some of my longer movies are 2 disc sets. I know DVDfab can merge them, but I prefer freeware or manual tools. It would be easiest is someone could point me to software or a guide which will help me to combine the two "titles."
My ripping process:
Except where it won't get past copy-protection, I use the ripit4me frontend to rip movie only (in other cases slysoft)
decrypt the dvd and if necessary clean up vobs, then I send it through DVD shrink to output without compression and without 1gb file splitting.
I suppose I could just encode separately and join with mkvmerge, is this the best way to do it? I use staxrip to encode, so I can cut out extra frames if there's added padding.
I'm just wondering if anyone out there has general advice on this; any suggestions are welcome. I'm pretty knowledgeable as far as DVD ripping goes, been doing it for about 7 or 8 years, but I know there are people around here who know a lot more than me. Thanks for your help :)
I've been backing up my DVD collection and putting it on my NAS to stream through my bluray player, and the encoding is working fine. I'm using x264 CRF 18 or 20 and just muxing the studio audio. The problem I'm having at the moment is that some of my longer movies are 2 disc sets. I know DVDfab can merge them, but I prefer freeware or manual tools. It would be easiest is someone could point me to software or a guide which will help me to combine the two "titles."
My ripping process:
Except where it won't get past copy-protection, I use the ripit4me frontend to rip movie only (in other cases slysoft)
decrypt the dvd and if necessary clean up vobs, then I send it through DVD shrink to output without compression and without 1gb file splitting.
I suppose I could just encode separately and join with mkvmerge, is this the best way to do it? I use staxrip to encode, so I can cut out extra frames if there's added padding.
I'm just wondering if anyone out there has general advice on this; any suggestions are welcome. I'm pretty knowledgeable as far as DVD ripping goes, been doing it for about 7 or 8 years, but I know there are people around here who know a lot more than me. Thanks for your help :)