Re-encoding movies

[Daemon]

I’ve ripped two films I wish to re-encode and put on a singe disk. I think I’ll be OK with authoring the disk once I have two files small enough to fit on one DVD, but would appreciate a guide on how to re-encode the movies to maintain as much quality as possible and also reduce the size. I have both CCE and TMPEG and don't mind which I use to do the job.
Currently I have two Video_TS folders with my two movies in (totalling something like 9 GB) but they include extras and stuff I don’t need, so can anyone help?

Are there any guides anywhere, as I notice there are no guides on the main page for this sort of thing.

If anyone can advise, it would be appreciated.

[manono]

Hi and welcome to the forum-

Are there any guides anywhere, as I notice there are no guides on the main page for this sort of thing.

You must not of looked very hard. Go back to the Main Page (http://www.doom9.org/). Look in the upper left side. Do you see Guides (http://www.doom9.org/guides.htm)? Then if you had clicked on that, you would have seen DVD/Mini DVD (http://www.doom9.org/mpg/dvdr-guides.htm). And if you had clicked on that, you would have seen DVD Backup Guides (http://www.doom9.org/mpg/dvdbackup-guides.htm).

But DVD2One and Instant Copy will also do what you want. There's a forum for those 2 programs.

[Daemon]

Yes, been trhough and read both guides - and very good they are too. However, neither (from what I have read on this and other forums) produces anything like comparative quality results to the likes of CCE do they?

I want to try and maintain as much quality in the movies as possible, hence I though CCE or TMpeg would be the best bet for such a scenario.

And thanks for the welcome! ;)

[manono]

Hi-

Maybe I'm not understanding you correctly. All 3 of the DVD-9 -> 1 DVD±R guides that I linked to before use CCE for reencoding. And yes, I think that most people agree that CCE produces the best quality, but with considerably more time spent achieving it.