Making VTS Files to fit on CR-R

I've read through the mandatory and a lot of other posts and the answer to this question seems to elude me. When I follow the instructions to RIP, the only set of files that work when I click the icon are the VTS_*.* files, which run great when I clock on the icon and run on my pc. Problem is, the file size for each one is .9999 gig, which is much too big to fit on a CD-R. None of the CD image or bbmpeg files seem to work using my player. I have the bitrate setting okay but the program appears to ignore what it says about creating X number of disks when the file is X Big. How can I set the program settings so that it creates smaller VTS_ files which can be burned to a CD. Most of you speak a language which I can't understand so please be gentle. My goal is to create disks that will play on a standalone DVD player. Thanks. I'm using Windows XP with 512 meg memory and PowerDVD. I have an ATI Pro 32meg video card and 70 meg & 7200 RPM speed on my hard drive.

I'm trying to rip the movie Lord of the Rings from my DVD player to create a copy which will play on a standalone CD Player as an emergency backup. It wil take more than one disk I'm sure and that is the problem. If the movie would fit on one disk there would be no problem. I would simply burn the entire VTS file. I have read the tutorials online but I'm still confused. I am obviously missing a step in this process but I couldn't be the only one could I? If so, I apologize but am sure the post will help someone else as well. Thanks

@Newbie10 There is too much unclear in your problem. None of the CD image or bbmpeg files seem to work using my player How did you make the images, how did you burn them? I have the bitrate setting okay but the program appears to ignore what it says about creating X number of disks when the file is X Big Which program? How can I set the program settings so that it creates smaller VTS_ files which can be burned to a CD. Which program? Most of you speak a language which I can't understand so please be gentle Which language?:D I have an ATI Pro 32meg video card and 70 meg & 7200 RPM speed on my hard drive. Your hard drive is VERY small!:D ...create a copy which will play on a standalone CD Player as an emergency backup. The only standalone CD players I know are Audio CD Players:D I would simply burn the entire VTS file There are several VTS files. I have read the tutorials online but I'm still confused Because you don't know what is what. At the end if you burn simply VTS files on CDs this won't work in standalone DVD Player (98%)

Ok. First of all, the files you ripped from the CD, which you are calling VTS files, are the .VOB files which contain the DVD playback movie/audio. To take these and burn them on a CD is fruitless, so let's get to step 2. First, if you haven't, download Gordian Knot. It has a lot of GUI to give you less of a headache. Even if you don't use it currently, you'll end up using it for something :) Make a DVD2AVI project file from your .VOB files, this will be used to encode your video in a later program. If you intend to make SVCDs of LotR that's going to be a LOT of CDs for a decent quality rip... You can play around with bitrate settings, but I'd go for 3 CDs with LotR, about an hour per CD (you'll get a decent bitrate this way) I don't know the easiest way to split the DVD2AVI project file into 3 segments without having audio issues, so I'll let someone else explain that part to you :) The easiest program I know of to encode into VCD/SVCD format is TMPGEnc, fairly easy project wizard, settings, etc. You can load the entire DVD2AVI project file here and manually split it (via Source Range), if you wish, that's what I'd do, but I know someone will chime in with an easier solution :) You'll also need to convert the .ac3 audio that gets ripped from the DVD into a format TMPGEnc can use, you need a .wav format, and I can't remember offhand if the BeSweet GUI in Gordian Knot can transcode just to .wav format, but I know BeSweet can do that with command line parameters, so... best to get a useful GUI for it ;) I'm still a n00b, too, so if I've confused you anywhere, just tell me where, I'll try to elaborate :)