Home  Tips & Tricks DVD Authoring, Reauthoring and Burning Easily add a layer split point to a dual layer DVD image
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Easily add a layer split point to a dual layer DVD image |
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Written by Administrator
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Sunday, 06 April 2008 |
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If you've done much dual layer DVD reauthoring or backing up of your dual layer DVDs, you may have encountered a problem. Some DVD rippers, such as DVDShrink will let you remove the layer split during the ripping process and this makes it difficult to impossible to burn the resulting image to a DVD. Some DVD programs will simply hang when they fail to find a valid layer split, others will crash your PC completely. Fortunately, if you have the original DVD files in a folder on your hard drive, you can usually correct this problem using the excellent free DVD Image burning software called "ImgBurn". ImgBurn was created by the original author of the venerable DVD Decrypter which has been the standard in DVD ripping for many years now (though it is no longer developed or supported for legal reasons). Anyway, ImgBurn will give you the option to recreate the layer split if it can find a valid place to split the VOB files. If you are trying to burn an ISO image of a DVD, ImgBurn can sometimes find a valid split point, but if it fails in ISO mode, try decompressing the ISO file to a folder and then use ImgBurn to burn the DVD from the folder rather than from the ISO image (it has options to burn from a DVD folder structure or from an ISO image file). When you load up the VIDEO_TS directory containing the VOB files, ImgBurn will sometimes pop up a dialog that offers to create a new split point if it can find a good place for one. Just select the appropriate split point that is as close to 50% as possible and click "OK". Now you are ready to burn your dual layer DVD with a proper layer split point intact. If a dialog does not automatically pop up to help you choose a split point, you can try clicking the calculator icon in the lower right portion of main interface after you've chosen the folder containing your DVD files.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 06 April 2008 )
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