how to burn DVD5 movie onto DVD9, (help me urgently)

[David Fox]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Nay Myo Win <rim.riaz at gmail.com> wrote:

> let me tell you more clearly.
>
> there may be videos which comes with DVD5 and DVD9 , ok??
>
> i have blank DVD9s in hand now.

It's not that simple. The video and other files that are on a dvd are
tailored just for that disc and you can't easily mix and match files
from other dvds. Sure you can make a ata dvd containing different
video avis or other files, but it's not the same thing as making a dvd
that you can watch on a consumer grade dvd player, which is what
you're expecting to do.

Second, 2xDVD5 = more space than you'll be able to put on a DVD9. So
if you're thinking of being able to take vobs off of 2 different DVD
sources and maybe combine them on to a DVD9, you'll run out of space,
and the menu and other structures (these are files other than the *VOB
files (which are the movie proper) on the disc will just get majorly
confused.

What you can do is use k9copy or other programs to rip from the DVD
the vobs of the movie, and use something like tovid to write
dvd-compliant mpeg to something you can burn, minus all the menus and
other stuff, if you just want to see if you can cram 2 movies onto 1
dvd-9 when the content is not going to be as good as the original DVD5
was.

Use the DVD9 for what it was intended, to make good backups of movies
that are already in DVD9 form and that you don't want to (for whatever
reason) shrink to fit a DVD5 - or use them for backups. DVD9s are
still too expensive compared to equivalent storage in DVD5 format.