Hi there,

I have a question regarding playback of edited DVDs. I decrypted a couple of different Star Wars DVDs and edited them into one DVD via DVD Shrink.

I used DVD Shrink simply because I didn't have to do any reconverting or messing around with changing the decrypted DVD files. I could just snip and insert scenes as I saw fit. When I was done DVD Shrink encoded my files and placed them in a ready-to-burn folder. I know DVD Shrink isn't really made for editing, but my edits are relatively simple ones: I just want to remove certain things here and there and add certain scenes from other DVDs.

My problem is that every time I try to edit something out of a DVD using DVD Shrink, there's inevitably a very noticeable 2-second gap in playback like the DVD player's laser is moving on to the next chapter on the disc or something. What I'd like to do is figure out a way to join my files.

I've done some research on this and I came up with a VOB file merger. I tried it but it just left me with one big fat VOB file that my DVD burner didn't know what to do with.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!