DVD Shrink Files Too Large??

[chinook9]

Occasionally when copying DVDs from my hard drive, Nero gives me a message that the file is too large. Today two DVDs I burned were reported in properties as 4.31 GB and 4.32 GB, however, Nero reported them as 4.947 GB and 5.124 GB respectively and too big to fit on a DVD5.

In these cases they were ripped with DVDFabDecrypter and compressed with DVDShrink.

To solve the problem I reauthored each of them in DVD Shrink and cut off the credits at the end. This reduced the size to no compression but Shrink still appeared to transcode them again. Two questions:

1. How do I prevent the initial problem from happening?

2. If it happens again, is there a way to just cut the credits without transcoding the whole movie. I have a fast machine and the transcoding only takes a couple of minutes but I would like to skip it.

Any advice would be appreciated.

[dialysis1]

Try burning with ImgBurn (http://www.imgburn.com/).
What version of Nero are you using?

[chinook9]

Nero 6.6.0.18

I am burning DVD files.

I tried Imgburn a couple of times burning from an ISO image but neither + or - DVDs worked in my player and they both work when burned in Nero which generally works just fine.

I will play with Imgburn a little so I can have that as an option if I can get it to work for me.

[Chetwood]

The predicted size is met only when you do a Deep Analysis. And if Shrink says "no compression" then there is no transcoding.

[chinook9]

Thanks for the input. I don't believe I did Deep Analysis on these. I will try that with both of them.

As an aside, I'm still trying to get Imgburn to work for me.

[chinook9]

I tried the Deep Analysis and it worked. Actually the reported size of the file in Properties is slightly larger but Nero reports it as small enough to fit on a DVD5.

I have also solved my ImgBurn problem. All the ISO files I had tried to burn were DVD Files that had been converted with Folder2Iso. When I converted to ISO with Shrink and burned with DVD Decrypter it worked just fine. I didn't waste a DVD confirming ImgBurn will work but I'm sure it will.

[shrink0]

Occasionally when copying DVDs from my hard drive, Nero gives me a message that the file is too large. Today two DVDs I burned were reported in properties as 4.31 GB and 4.32 GB, however, Nero reported them as 4.947 GB and 5.124 GB respectively and too big to fit on a DVD5.

In these cases they were ripped with DVDFabDecrypter and compressed with DVDShrink.

To solve the problem I reauthored each of them in DVD Shrink and cut off the credits at the end. This reduced the size to no compression but Shrink still appeared to transcode them again. Two questions:

1. How do I prevent the initial problem from happening?

2. If it happens again, is there a way to just cut the credits without transcoding the whole movie. I have a fast machine and the transcoding only takes a couple of minutes but I would like to skip it.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Next time try DVDFab decrypter> VobBlanker>shrink> burn with IMG..

results should fit DVD-5 disk...... VobBlanker will not transcode movie,it just removes extras not needed, so shrink has less to transcode and the result is less % compression= better quality......

[chinook9]

Thanks for the tip. I will download VobBlanker right now.

[shrink0]

Thanks for the tip. I will download VobBlanker right now.

Great! and if you need or want more reduction, then run Menushrink after vobBlanker.......
http://download.videohelp.com/menushrink/
http://jsoto.posunplugged.com/vobblanker.htm

[steva11]

i had the same problem, now i only use smartripper to rip the movie to a video_ts folder then load it to nero recode. it fits it perfectly, then burns it without the use of a "middleman" like dvd shrink. it's one less step, and has worked perfectly so far.