crissrudd4554 said:
I believe this has been asked here before but I'll ask anyway. I'm trying to burn the remastered version of Harmy's DeSpecialized edition to DVD but I want to include the audio tracks. Not all of them. Mainly the 1977 5.1 mix, the 1977 mono, 1993 mix, commentary etc. I also want to customly make my chapters so it matches the chapters of the original file. So far the only program I've found thats allowing me to do this is ConvertXtoDVD. The DVD came out okay but its a bit boxy in some areas (quite noticeably in the opening Fox/Lucasfilm credits). Any of you know of any good programs that will allow me to customize the DVD the way I want and still come out good on the DVD? I don't own a Blu-Ray player so I can't make a Blu-Ray disc. Thanx.
I think it has been mentioned elsewhere, but you won't get good results trying to recompress an already compressed mpeg2 file: Harmy only gets good results because he encodes directly to a target format from a high quality source.
If you already have the DVD9 version, why not keep it at that quality level?
It is possible to reconstitute the DVD9 video with different audio and chapters (as long as the overall size isn't any larger), however it would be complex and a real PITA if you don't have professional software if you want to retain menus. Here's one way to do it with freeware, ignoring menus, but it may be possible to do it in one step with TsMuxer:
1. Demux the main movie vob files into their component video, audio and subtitle streams with eac3to.
2. Recombine the required video, audio and subtitle streams and add chapter points to create new vob and ifo files with Ifoedit.
Alternatively, if you just want to remove extra audio tracks and retain existing chapter points, use DVDshrink on the movie title of the original DVD9 (although I question why you would do this when it's effectively the same as the original DVD9).
If you are happy to select the desired audio track to play, manually, using the DVD player, without menus, then simply burn this movie-only version to DVD9.
If you want to include any extras, then use DVDshrink to add the movie-only title and then any other titles from the original DVD9. Because there are no menus, each title will automatically playback in sequence, unless the DVD player has the ability to jump directly to a title. You might also want to use AddChapter to add a blank chapter at the end of each title (unless it already has one) to make it quicker to jump to the next title with the DVD player's Next button.
If you want menus, the original menus can be modified, but it requires a comprehensive understanding of DVDs and menu structure and IMO is more trouble than it is worth (especially since the audio track menu labels must be altered to match the revised movie).
My suggestion would be to create a movie-only DVD9 with the soundtracks you want, as a complement to the original DVD9. You would have to use the DVD player audio navigation feature to manually select a different soundtrack than the default first one, but it isn't that problematic.