Rip a single angle from dual-angle DVD

I am trying to rip a single angle from a dual angle DVD we have produced. I don't want to transcode the footage, but rather just demux it to the two original elementary streams. I have tried using MPEGStreamclip, but it seems to interleave the two angles in the resulting MPEG. Anyone have any tricks to demuxing just a certain angle?

Hi
+1) I will get the most compression (lowest quality) if I burn it on a single layer DVD because there is less space available.+
Not surely so. iDVD doesn't care about GBs at all - only movie duration time
(including time for iDVD menues)
iDVD 8 and 9 has three levels of qualities iDVD 6 has the two last ones
for Single layer DVDs (DL - about double the time)
• Professional Quality (movies up to 120 min.) - BEST
• Best Performances (movies less than 60 min.) - High quality on final DVD
• High Quality (in iDVD08) / Best Quality (in iDVD6) (movies up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above
So If Your movie is less than 120 minutes and You use a very simple menu eg "Brushed
Metal" no animation or audio.
Then I doubt that You'll get any better quality with DL-DVDs
+2) If i use a dual layer DVD, the compression should be better because of the additional space.+
Not if Your movie is less than 120 minutes. iDVD doesn't optimize after space.
(Roxio Toast™ can do this as I understands it)
+3) If i use a blu ray DVD and burner, I can create the least compression, possibly none (if I can reduce movie to 40gb from 41), therefore best quality (yes, I know it will only play on blu ray players).+
No version of iDVD can address any Blue-Ray DVD burner AT ALL.
(Roxio Toast™ can do this)
Hopefully being of any help Yours Bengt W

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