How easy is it to fit a 6.5GB Football game on single DVD?

[tluxon]

I've got a football game that I've cut all the commercials and fluff out of and it's about 6.35 GB in size. What's the easiest way to fit it onto a single DVD? Is it worth it?

Thanks,

Tim

[echooff]

What format is the video? If avi it will need to be encoded to mpeg2 format. If already in mpg you can reduce the size with ReJig (http://www.rejig.org) with minimum loss of quality. What format is the audio? If in wav format you could realize a hugh size reduction by encoding to mp2 or ac3. Bottom line: need more input.

[tluxon]

The video is off of one of my ReplayTVs, medium quality, so basically, it is 4000 (avg) kbps VBR mpeg-2 with audio of 48 kHz @ 226 kbps, MPEG-1 layer II.

I'm looking into DVD Shrink, but it appears that it requires an authored fileset. How does ReJig compare to that?

I'm not yet sure what tools support a fileset larger than 4.7 GB. So far I have Ulead Movie Factory 2, TMPGEnc DVD Author 1.5, and Nero 5.5.10.something (supports my NEC ND-1300A burner).

[robguy]

Perhaps this might help.

Go ahead and use TMPGEnc Dvd Author 1.5 to create your VOBs from your MPEG-2 file(s) in the DVD Output Folder (even if their total size is larger than 4.7 GB ... Author will warn you the size is too big to fit onto a single DVD, but will allow you to proceed).

Then use either DVD Shrink or DVD2One to shrink the TMPG-produced VOBs down to size to fit onto a single DVD.

Next, remove the VOBs originally created by TMPGEnc Author in the DVD Output Folder and replace them with the resized VOBs created with Shrink/DVD2One.

Lastly, use the TMPG DVD Writing Tool to author your DVD.

[echooff]

You could use rejig to demux the video and then resize to you required size. The use dvdauthor to create a vobset. robguy's method also works well. I have used it also prior to discovery of rejig. Just personal preference.

[tluxon]

I started by using ReJig so I could see how much quality I lost in the mpeg before taking the time to author. It took me a couple times to get the final size that maximized the 4,700,000,000 Byte capacity of the DVD, but it was pretty simple.

Next, I wanted to try the DVD Shrink method to compare, but after authoring the fileset in TMPGEnc DVD Author 1.5, I can't open the VIDEO_TS.IFO file in DVD Shrink 3.0 Beta 5. I get an error that says:

DVD Shrink encountered an error and cannot continue.
The error is:

Cannot decrypt VOBS

The reason is: Unknown
The only comments I could find related to this error is that it has something to do with a copy protection flag, but TDA doesn't seem to have any options that would pertain to a flag like that. Can someone please advise? Should I try a different authoring package (I also have Ulead MF2)?

Thanks,

Tim