Hi, and happy new year, I read the thread about dvdremake womble nero to merge, and have tried each of them. Nero and Womble create 4 17 minute single clips, so each 8cm disk shows up as a single chunk, no access to the individual chapters within those disks.

DVDremake does create a page which links to a separate chapter page, but it does not seem to play on my computer or on the DVD machine. To add to this, the DVDremake top menu is very ugly and I would not want to use it anyway, I dont want to see their branding on my menu page!

Are there any other DVD merging softwares you would recommend out there?

Thanks very much,
Till later
Mark.

Hi Mark,
This question has come up before and I am afraid you choices are limited. In fact you have already explored pretty well all of them!
The ONLY software I know of that will simply combine two or more 8cm DVDs from a cam into one full DVD AND retain all the menus and indexing is DVDRemake. I am actually a little surprised that nothing else has come out in the past couple of years to compete.
Yes, the DVDRemake background page is plug ugly! There are instructions on their site for how to change it to one of your own but who knows why they haven't just addressed it in the development of the software. The only way to get rid of the watermark is to go up to DVDRemake Pro. That one allows three DVDs into one, no watermark and the joy of the same ugly background photo! In itself the program is quite technically amazing and beyond merging mini DVDs there are incredible controls for manipulating DVDs BUT it is very technically challenging.

Hi there Lance, thanks for the reply.
Yep, its surprising since its something Im sure lots of people would want to do. I just had family visiting and last night used Nero Vision to do a compile, but for some reason, 1/ fields were reversed and it was jittery despite 2/ smart mode (whatever its called) was enabled, so it should not have re-encoded anything, and the image was noticably poorer quality as well as not taking up the whole screen like the original did. It was 16x9 as it should be, only smaller than the original.

odd!

Tx
Mark