2 part compilation dvd

I have a two-disc DVD set and when i have copied them to iTunes (11) they are imported as two separate DVDs (movies), despite them being the same name and data.
Is there anyway of grouping a 2 part DVD as one DVD.
I know you can do it if I set the Media Kind to TV Show, but I am reluctant to do this as they won't then show up in my main Movie Tab and they are not a TV show after all.

Best is two pass 6.2, and the other is one pass.
What problems do you have opening the files?
Are you trying to open the m2v files?
Do you have the MPEG2 playback component?
Thanks David,
The reason I asked about the diffrences in the encoding in Compressor is I am doing a job that I am half way throgh and thought I may save a bit of time encodeing usig 90 Min. fast encode as opposed to the High quality encode. IF there is not much quality difference and I may save time I'll use it.
I cannot open my compresspr file in QT (7.03) as everytime I try after a few seconds the computer says QT is not responding.
If you can help it's appreciated.
Thanks
Jeff
G4 DP 1 GIG G4 laptop 1.25 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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Write superclasses and subclasses.
Create objects of superclasses and subclasses.
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{code}{code}
{code}{code}
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{code}{code}
{code}{code}
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{code}{code}
{code}{code}
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java 25 same error caret under s in both supers
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I have a problem with a HUGE dvd-project I'm working on at the moment. It's a compilation dvd with 50 different short videos and approximately 55 menus. a large part of the 50 videos is connected through the menus with 201 unique buttons.
First I made different stories to be sure the viewer gets directed to the menu he/she came from when a video ends. But because the project became too big (99 tracks and or stories is the maximum) I got into scripting.
I thought I actually managed to write the right scripts, but now it seems that a stand alone dvd-player doesn't recognize the scripts. Every time a video ends or I use the menu button on the remote control the (first) main menu appears.
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thanks in advance
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As already said, the pre-scripting is usually the culprit... and as StudioX said, I \did leave much of the detail out in that article, which was intended to build on from other sources, such as the manual!
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Additionally, the script lines you quote in your prescript may not work, depending on where you are in the disc when they are run. The very first script you create will have a value of 63489, which when you divide by 32 gives just over 1984, so will be rounded to either 1984 or 1985. Since this does not equate to any menu item then the jump cannot work, since GPRM3 will never be equal to '1'. As a result the disc reverts to the main menu.
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I have an athlon-thunderbird 900 Mhz 128 MB ram.
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If I remember well ... (I don't know if I transcoded to mpeg-2 before upscaling or not .. although upscaling first is maybe better)
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You can multiplex the audio and video-stream to an mpeg-2stream ... with mplex or so I think.
Then use dvd-author to create the dvd-structure, ....
A divx can be nto so standard or so (or faulty) which can give problems ... the above passthrough for equal audio/video-parts can maybe help ... or use of mplayer pass-through wich can maybe help. It gave me some headaches ...
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A QCluster network isn't designed to distribute Rendering from FCP, rather it's designed to distribute encoding tasks.
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The printable option is the ROM. Include a menu in the DVD that explains this.
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