[Jackler]

Ive seen plenty of DVD images that are 4-5 GB in size easily, and some have managed to shrink there file size to exactly 700MB. I understand that extras and the such are cut out, however im sure that those files dont account for 3/4th the size of the disk. Is it compressed? With what codec/program?

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Do you need to reduce them to go on to CDR

[Retired Tech]

Do you need to reduce them to go on to CDR

[Jackler]

Nah, but down to that file size to save disk space.

[Retired Tech]

DVD Shrink overcomes this problem by compressing or "shrinking" the data from your original DVD.

http://www.dvdshrink.org/where.html

[Jackler]

Thank you, greatly appreciated

Heh, wasnt sure if the movies were compressed or not.

[Retired Tech]

Basically they scan frames and only update the parts where something moved

[Jackler]

Hmm, while we're on the same topic, ive also a few AVI files thar are about 3-400MB a piece, only 30 minutes of footage. Im not sure what theyre compressed under, but I can use videodub to find out. I was wondering if I can compress that any further..

[Retired Tech]

You can try Quart in to a pint pot

At 25 cents a disc you could keep the quality at DVD and easily earn the 25 cents in the time it takes to convert / compress

[Jackler]

lol, forgive my ignorance, but im confused..

[Retired Tech]

Quart in to a pint pot = English saying for two in to one

You could put the files on to DVDR and then delete them from the drive

[Jackler]

lol, makes a lot more sense now.

So further compression wouldnt be possible? Ive got a slew of the files,lol, id easily go through a 100pk in a flash.

[Jackler]

Also, I checked out that DVD shrink. The program looks great, but how would it handle series disks? Ive got a boxset of smallville, and was wondering how to extract the shows piece by piece and shrink them.

[Retired Tech]

If it has copy protection then it isn't something we can look at

[Jackler]

dunno if it does or not..it just doesnt give the option to extract seperately, it does the main IMG file.(VIDEO_TS)

[Retired Tech]

Then Nero would let you search for scenes and export them