[Matthew Attoe]

Hello,

Over christmas my parents recorded two episodes of a christmas special for me on their dvd recorder on two seperate discs.

Now, parents being parents, and techophobes, they set the recorder going about five minutes before the shows started and let it run on after the show had finished.

What I would like to be able to do is to "trim" the rubbish before and after the shows and then join them onto one dvd using DVD2onex.

The tools I have are:

G4/350 & OS X 10.2.8
imovie 3.x
Idvd3.x
quicktime 6.5 pro
dvd2oneX 1.3

Is this possible with the software i have, or will i need some other (free ) software?

I'm pretty confident with dvd2onex, but it's the trimming part I'm unsure about.

Hope someone can help me,

Thank you,

Matthew

[Uncle Skeleton]

I would rip the VOBs, truncate with mpgtx (don't know if it supports VOB though), concat (with [color=blue]cat[/cololr] in the Terminal but I think mpgtx can do that too), and author a new DVD image (I know DVDSP can, I think Sizzle or ffmpegX can. If any of those don't like VOB you can demux to m2v/whatever audio it uses probably mp2 or pcm with bbDemux).

the other option is to completely decode the whole thing to mov, edit (anywhere, but QTPro will be easiest), and recode it back to MPEG2. This will definitely work, but will take forever and the quality will be seriously degraded

[Matthew Attoe]

Thanks.

Matthew