dvd9 to dvd5: is compression needed?

[ratfink9]

I am a very new to this and have been pouring through how-to's and faq's. In an effort to learn how to get a whole movie (dvd9) onto a single disk (dvd5) i have been using the castaway dvd9.

i have followed the directions in the guide and stripped out everything but the ac3 and the movie and it went down from 7.9GB to 6.25Gb.

here is my question-

is it necessary to further compress some movies so as to get them onto a single disk? if a movie is left uncompressed how long of a movies can be fitted onto a single dvd5?

thank you for your help

[NoMoreBUSHit]

Originally posted by ratfink9
here is my question-
is it necessary to further compress some movies so as to get them onto a single disk? if a movie is left uncompressed how long of a movies can be fitted onto a single dvd5?

thank you for your help
ratfink9,

sometimes dvd9's, even after stripping out EVERYTHING 'cept the movie, will be larger then what can fit on a dvd5. In this case you would need to compress the movie OR span it across 2 dvd's. doom9 has a guide for spanning 1 dvd9 -> 2 dvd5's...i've yet to get it to work...

someone just replied to an inquiry that i had and mentioned dvd2one..i dl'd it and tried it and it works.

good luck.

[ratfink9]

ya- i read that dvd2one post too- i assume that it automatically compresses the picture quality?

thanks

[manono]

Hi-

i assume that it automatically compresses the picture quality?

It compresses the file size. You may or may not notice a drop in quality. The whole thing has to shrink to a maximum of 4.37GB.

[vikodin]

This is the guide I've been using to do DVD9 to DVD5 backups, I hope it helps.
http://www.digital-forums.com/dvd2dvdr/intro.htm

It does require that you have TMPGEnc (which you can buy) and Spruce DVDMaestro (which you can't, because the company who made it is no longer around). Also, I've always had a problem with SubRip because it reads the subtitles at the wrong frame rate (30fps instead of 29.976 or whatever) -- I've developed a lame little workaround for it, but maybe they've released a new version of SubRip that takes care of this bug.

I haven't looked into DVD2One, but that might be more of a realistic option if you can't get ahold of DVDMaestro.

[Jolard]

The suggestion to use DVD2One is a good one. It will compress the movie file down from over 6 gb to the exact size for a DVD and author it for you. You then just need to burn to DVD.

The quality will degrade slightly, but I have been impressed with the results.

The other option as has been suggested is TMPGEnc and then an authoring program. TMPGEnc will decrease the size of the file, but you would need to extract the VOB's to MPEG as described in the guide above first.

Another option is REMPEG, but I wasn't happy with the quality result, DVD2One was much better.

[Newbie2002]

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if ya' need a step by step guide with all pictures then stop by this great site that i've found:

http://www.hostultra.com/~dvdplanet

email him for any guide that you don't see and he'll write out a guide for your needs

Good LUCK!!!
:D