On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:14:22 -0700,
oldman@old.net wrote:
>I would like to take a single or double layered DVD and convert it to
>a single layered DVD.
I'll assume you know you can't take a fully filled out double layer
DVD which holds over 8 GBs of data and put it on a single layer DVD
that at best hold 4.7 GB WITHOUT recompressing the files, which at
that level wouldn't make a lot of sense due to the quality hit
involved. Two issues. You can't recompress VOB files without first
converting them back to MPEG-2 compliant streams. If all you are
attempting to do is copy what is on a DVD and make more copies of it,
excluding DRM and copyright issues, all you need is one of any number
of DVD copy utilities. You don't need two DVD burners. For example
Roxio's Easy Media 9 will take a source DVD, copy it entirely to your
hard drive as temporary files then burn a new DVD from that.
It sounds like you are trying to make copies of copyright protected
media which I'm not going to help anyone with.