Three Methods to Split DVD Using Freeware
Posted on 20. Apr, 2010 by Chris in Blog
Shrinking a DVD 9 to fit on a DVD 5 is mostly done by us, but sometimes we’d like to split a DVD 9 so that it can be burned to two DVD 5, without losing the functionality of the menu and the video quality and any other special features. After all, DVD 5 is cheap and two DVD 5 is still much cheaper than one DVD 9. So if you are the one seeking for how to split a DVD, here are three ways for you to split a DVD using freeware without losing anything of the original DVD. For free video splitters to split you videos of other formats into however many parts conveniently, please refer to this article.
Method One: Use DVD Shrink (for Windows)
DVD Shrink is well known for compressing DVD to half size but do you know it can also be used to split a DVD into 2 DVDs so that to avoid losing many things which happens by compressing the DVD? Using DVD shrink may be the simplest way to split DVD directly with only one program. It’s free and you can download it here and read the detail tutorial on using DVD Shrink to split DVD here.
DVD Shrink
Note: since DVD Shrink hasn’t been under development for years, it is not able to rip some DVDs with newer copy-protection. In this case, you can try to run DVD43 (not compatible with 64 bit Windows) in the background to decrypt the DVD. If this DVD43 also fails, you need to rip the DVD to the HD first using a capable DVD ripper.
Method Two: Use IfoEdit (for Windows)
There are many free DVD rippers online, find the one that works best for you to rip the DVD to your HD first. Then use IfoEdit to split the DVD. You can download IfoEdit here and read the detail tutorial on splitting DVD into 2 DVD-Rs using IfoEdit here.
IfoEdit
Method Three: Use VobBlanker (for Windows)
Rip the DVD to the hard drive and then use VobBlanker to split it. You can read a detail guide on splitting a DVD9 with VobBlanker.
VobBlanker
If the above three methods are too complicated or tiresome for you or just fails for you due to whatever reason, then you may want to turn to a pay program to do all the work in just a few clicks and without any fail. Then TouchUp DVD Ripper Platinum is such a program to meet your requirement. It can remove all DVD copy-protection and rip the DVD to your computer and save as whatever format you want. You can select to split the DVD as you like when setting for the ripping. Here is a tutorial for how to split the DVD using TouchUp DVD Ripper Platinum and for more details and features about it, check here.
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