Removing audio tracks form DVDs

[Far-N-Wide]

I'm making some back-up DVD's of my favorite TV series DVDs. I want to know if it's possible to remove the French, Spanish and other languages as well as all sub-titles from the audio protion of the .VOB files. Keeping only the English audio and video.

I want to do this to try and get a sightly better files sizes. My goal is to get an hour long show to fit on a mini DVD-R 1.4 GB disk.

I'm using AnyDVD 5.9.4.1 to rip the DVDs to a folder and then Nero 7 to burn each VOB file to blank mini DVD-R disk.

Anyone know how to strip off the extra languages and sub-titles?

[mountainman]

DVDShrink allows you to do that (remove languages). I'm not sure, however, if you'll be able to shrink it down to 1.4GB.

http://www.dvdshrink.org - free

Good luck.

[YARDofSTUF]

Thats gonna be a tight fit. The stuff I have on my hard drive thats an hour long are about 2.2 gigs with the extra languages off. You'll probably have to give up some quality.

[Far-N-Wide]

Loosing some quality would be fine versus replacing a single DVD out of a series. I'll checkout the DVDshrink

Thanks

[Far-N-Wide]

Humm... I have a follow up question... How can I merge .VOB files? It seems some of the files are needed to complete an entire episode off a show.

I'm not positive, but from looking at seperate files within the folder I ripped the DVD to. There seems to be more then one VOB file needed to watch a hour long show. Can these be merged to one file?

Thanks a heap for the DVDshrink tip. I removed about 430 meg from my 1st DVD, so far on the 1st 4 show on the DVD i'm ripping. the .VOB files are about 1 gig a pop or 850K. So it's looking good so far.

[YARDofSTUF]

Ya in the options of dvd shink you can set it to just make 1 vob file. there will still be a couple other files but when you play the big vob alone it will have everythign in it, I just delete the other stuff after it rips it.

[Mark]

if the dvd player can play divx or xvid codec files, consider useing auto gordian knot (http://www.autogk.me.uk/), the quality is slightly less than DVD but may be acceptable.