DVD shrink enhancements?

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: AnitaPeterson
no offense, but people stumped by DVD Shrink should probably stay away from technology, and only use AOL...

Yeah. I figured "DVD reducing" apps would be complicated, but DVDShrink is pretty-much one-click idiot-proof, more or less. (Ok, I lied, about three clicks total, not including file selections.)

Oh, and for homercles337 - Have you tried this? Select Edit, Preferences..., click on the drop-down box for "DVD Size", and change it to 4.7GB. "(4464 MB)" will be shown next to it, greyed out. That's the size of most standard single-layer DVD recordable discs.

 

[homercles337]

Those look very useful, Kilrst. Much thanks.

 

[homercles337]

@Larry and Anita -- i would choke the life out of you if i ever met you in real life. Enjoy your pathetic existence.

 

[BlueWeasel]

So are you trying to backup a music DVD?

You might want to edit out your comments above...

 

[rh71]

Why aren't you using Re-Author mode ?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: homercles337
@Larry and Anita -- i would choke the life out of you if i ever met you in real life. Enjoy your pathetic existence.

Because we're helpful and offer advice? Gee, thanks. I somehow feel that your existance, at least on these messageboards, is soon to be cut short, due to comments like that. Enjoy!

 

[agnitrate]

Originally posted by: homercles337
@Larry and Anita -- i would choke the life out of you if i ever met you in real life. Enjoy your pathetic existence.

e-thug for life.

 

[Mark R]

I have no problems compressing from 8GB to 4.7GB with DVDshrink - if you enable all the quality options, you can hardly even tell you've recompressed.

 

[JonTom]

Gotta admit - I was with Larry and Anita until your screenshots... Thats a new one.

You could re-author the DVD and make 2 DVDs out of it. Use the start and end points and split the movie/whatever somewhere logical in the middle.

 

[Mark R]

Have you tried doing a 'deep analysis' before you adjust the compression?

I've found that sometimes you get different compression ratios if you do it first.

 

[JonTom]

I don't know if this will work either, but could you shrink it once to the HD, load the shrunk version and shrink it again?

Might be like zipping an MP3, though - I'm not sure...

 

[Baked]

If you can't get DVD shrink to work, go... nm.

DVD Shrink works for me flawlessly. Always re-author mode, always > 70% compression, always 4480MB.

 

[Vampirrella]

boy, this was a pretty harsh thread.. i was gonna respond to the question but i dont wanna get flamed LOL

 

[VirtualLarry]

I did some reading through the threads that Kilrsat posted, and I think that this might be the problem:

It may also be that the DVD data got corrupted somehow on your hard drive. Usually in this case DVD Shrink will just crash, but there is also a chance it would result in over-sized output. DVD Shrink can't compress encrypted video.

The navigation data is never encrypted, also the pack headers in each VOBS are not encrypted (e.g. this is video, audio 1, audio 2 etc). So the result of copying an encrypted DVD to your hard drive is what appears to DVD Shrink as a perfectly valid DVD, except the content of each stream is uncompressable garbage.

Did you decrypt the DVD image data first, homercles337, using something like DVDDecryptor, before you tried to shrink it with DVDShrink? That could be your problem right there. Sorry if I seemed harsh at first, that step could be easy to overlook, and could apparently cause the problems that you were having.

 

[zveruga]

I put myself at the mercy of this gun-toting forum, with the following question:

If I already have a ripped DVD movie in .avi format on my hard drive, and want to compress it for burning onto a DVD (when I pop it into Nero it tells me the size is too big), can I use DVD Shrink for this? When I choose Open in DVD shrink, it wont display my movie when I view the directory. Is there another software I should be using.

Thanks, and please don't hurt me!

 

[zveruga]

Before I get blasted, this is the page Im looking at. Which conversion should I choose to use DVD Shrink for the movie?

http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/codecs-104-1.htm

 

[waitman]

Originally posted by: rh71
Why aren't you using Re-Author mode ?

Exactly! reauthor, then drag and drop title to the left hand side, if more than one title, I take the first title. Then click compression settings on the right, Take out every option you don't need. I usually leave one audio. Then just click backup Should be be easy no bigger than the file is. If you still have trouble pm me and I will try to help you out. good luck

waitman

 

[UCJefe]

Originally posted by: zveruga
Before I get blasted, this is the page Im looking at. Which conversion should I choose to use DVD Shrink for the movie?

http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/codecs-104-1.htm

You can't use DVDShrink to do this. I would use DVD2SVCD wth TMPG. Follow the AVI->DVD+-R guide here. Do it overnight, it will take a looong time.

 

[jae]

if u wanna make a dvd out of a .avi (divx/xvid) files u have to encode it to dvdr/mpg2. u cant use dvdshrink.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: homercles337
Did you look at the screens? Custom, auto, makes no difference. The original movie is ~5.5GB. Is there some other compression option im not aware of...my original question before all the j00z 7UV 4O7 shite.

The LOTR movies take up nearly the entire disc - FOTR is around 7.7GB. DVDShrink can manage to squeeze that onto a single 4.7GB DVD.

I also use DVD Decrypter though, to put the disc on the hard drive first, as DVDShrink has not yet reliably decrypted an entire DVD for me. Deep analysis then, and it compresses the files.

 

[cthulhu]

homercles337, ygpm

 

[AnitaPeterson]

LOL, I just came back from vacation (in real life) and I saw this thread again.

I don't know if I should laugh at the OP for being such a jackass, I'm so afraid he'll choke me

Hey, loser, if on a 4.5 GB DVD you only got 29 MB of audio, you got bigger problems than people laughing at your stupidity on an internet forum. Besides which, the education you allude to in one of your later posts doesn't show in the description of the problem you encounter - like someone else said, only the screenshots came to your rescue.

 

[homercles337]

*blinks eyes, then rubs, and walks out of cave*

Ahhh, finally sent off my first grant proposal that caused me so much torment (along with the "j00 r3t4rd n00b" crap). Apologies to Larry and Anita, but you were both being a**holes. Just because a piece of software is new to me does not automatically put me into the youre a retard and should stick to AOL sh!tcamp.

Mark R, thanks. The deep analysis did the trick.