How to burn DVD-9 content onto 1 DVD-5 disk

[ForceMajeur]

Whats the best way to burn a DVD-9 onto a single sided DVD-5 disk,rather than burn the DVD-9 onto a dual layer DVD-5 or span across 2 DVD 5 disk? Thanks.

 

[pcgeek11]

Try DVDshrink.

pcgeek11

 

[jackschmittusa]

Ripit4me.

edit:

So much for the short post.

Lots more info when you look at the site for Ripit4me about what you can do and what you need. By far, the easiest way to do what the OP wants is:

start Ripit4me (free) , choose "one click mode", choose "movie only" - this will start DVDdectipter (free), followed by Fixvts (free), then DVDShrink (free) - I use Nero, so DVDShrink starts it automatically after encoding.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

http://www.doom9.org/
http://www.videohelp.com/

DVDDecryptor or DVDFabDecryptor, then DVDShrink.

 

[ForumMaster]

DVD Shrink is what you're looking for. it will strip the unnecessary stuff (menus, subtitles, languages you don't need) and lower the bit-rate of the movie so that i will fit.

 

[j00fek]

nero recode

dvdshrink

pick one

 

[corkyg]

Another vote for DVD Shrink. I find one of the best approaches is to first (if required) use Decrypter. Then DVD Shrink to create an ISO file - then burn from that with about a 4.5 GB result.

 

[Matt1970]

I use DVD2One, it's basicly the same thing as DVD Shrink. The quality loss is minimal and unless you put the original side-by-side with the shrunk copy, you won't even notice. The menue removal is great because the movie basicly start when you put it in the player.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: jackschmittusa

Ripit4me.

ripit4me needs shrink and imgburn or decrypter, but that program works excellent when dealing with the newer movies w/ their f*cked up directories

 

[RKS]

Originally posted by: Matt1970
I use DVD2One, it's basicly the same thing as DVD Shrink. The quality loss is minimal and unless you put the original side-by-side with the shrunk copy, you won't even notice. The menue removal is great because the movie basicly start when you put it in the player.

I rip all of my kids' dvds because they ALL have about 30 minutes of commercials before the main menu. Itis much easier to pop in a disc and let the movie start. As a bonus the original Little Einsteins discs don't get used as a frisbee.

 

[AnotherGuy]

I use CloneDVD... pretty good it lets u choose if u want just the movie without the extra stuff ...and much more... very easy to use too

 

[n7]

None of the above suggestions are anywhere close to ideal, as they are all cheap transcoders.

If you don't want to lose a lot of quality, use DVD Rebuilder + Cinema Craft Encoder (or even the free HC encoder included) for converting DVD9 to DVD5.
Results with the aforementioned should be superb, allowing 50% compression with no noticeable quality loss, unlike everything else mentioned in this thread.

Is DVD-RB easy to use?
Not per say.

But it's well worth learning, since it's by far the best way to do what you desire.

 

[NaOH]

Originally posted by: n7
None of the above suggestions are anywhere close to ideal, as they are all cheap transcoders.

If you don't want to lose a lot of quality, use DVD Rebuilder + Cinema Craft Encoder (or even the free HC encoder included) for converting DVD9 to DVD5.
Results with the aforementioned should be superb, allowing 50% compression with no noticeable quality loss, unlike everything else mentioned in this thread.

Is DVD-RB easy to use?
Not per say.

But it's well worth learning, since it's by far the best way to do what you desire.

I vouch for this as well. Not that easy for a novice though. Transcoding FTL

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: n7
None of the above suggestions are anywhere close to ideal, as they are all cheap transcoders.

If you don't want to lose a lot of quality, use DVD Rebuilder + Cinema Craft Encoder (or even the free HC encoder included) for converting DVD9 to DVD5.
Results with the aforementioned should be superb, allowing 50% compression with no noticeable quality loss, unlike everything else mentioned in this thread.

Is DVD-RB easy to use?
Not per say.

But it's well worth learning, since it's by far the best way to do what you desire.

considering that the cce cost $$$ and is only needed when you hae to compress more than ~20% i would disagree. for a 20% or less transcode, shrink does a fine job, and more than a few movies don't even need compression if you limit yourself to the movie and 1 audio track, either dd or dts.

and yes, i have used dvd-rb w/ cce which i paid for. for the long movies nothing can touch it, but for stuff that is 2hrs or less i have found that shrink w/ their "deep encdoding" does a job on par with cce when a movie needs 20% or less additonal compression.

and i have watched this stuff on mult-thousand $$$ dvd players going into very expensive displays of all types from dlp tvs, to plasmas, to lcds, to projectors (have friends that do high end home audio installs for a living, so i can go mess with a home theater that may run $100K, so it is not like i am comparing on regular stuff)

 

[Yellowbeard]

This is a very good link for this type of info:

http://www.doom9.org/