DVDShrink 3.0 beta 5: Limited compression and stream problems

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I joined all five similar episodes from an anime volume to one movie with all audio and subtitles intact. I just wanted a "no thrills, no menus, just episodes playing in back to back" DVD. The total end size was 5.23 GB. When I used DVDShrink 3.0 beta 5 to strip and shrink, I noticed that my two only subtitles were not detected.:confused: I could view them during IFOedit movie play and they are definitely configured in my VTS_01_0.IFO. To make matters worse, even with automatic sizing, the most I can get out of compression with one audio removed is 5,285 MB. :eek: Looking at my detected audios, all three audio were showing sizes of 4 MB. Hey, they supposed to be bigger than that. In summary, I had three problems with version 3 beta 5 on this DVD project.

1. Subtitles not detected
2. Can’t compress to fit disk, whether using automatic or ratio sizing. The lowest amount of compression I can get is 99%. 98% if I do still pictures.
3. Detected audio is showing way less than it supposed too. The actual size is 142 MB.

Well, anyways I decided to use version 2.3. During analyzing, I got this error.

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DVD Shrink encountered an error and cannot continue this operation.

invalid nv_pck: nv_pck_lbn

The reason is: Unknown
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Unknown? You gotta love those repies. No big deal ;). Maybe something went wrong with my joining clips process. I went and just did a mock stream strip in IFOedit on my main movie and kept every stream checked. I just wanted the VOB navigation packs adjusted at the end. So, now I can get 2.3 to finish analyzing. And what do you know?…I got all my three audio detected with correct sizes, 142 MB. I also got my two subtitles detected and best of all, I can compress my movie to fit my DVD!:D:D

Since I had corrected the nav packs, I went I tried it with 3.0 beta 5 again and I’m still having the three problems as stated above.

:confused:

[maa]

I have similar problems when removing audio and subpictures. The IFOs are left full of them and its a pain to have to edit them out with IFOEDIT afterwards. They were removed - but the player reads the IFOs and switches to empty tracks !
This is not a new problem in 3b5 though.

Shrink 3b5 is a lot faster than 2.3 - 20 mins quicker on a project I just completed.

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Originally posted by maa
I have similar problems when removing audio and subpictures. The IFOs are left full of them and its a pain to have to edit them out with IFOEDIT afterwards. They were removed - but the player reads the IFOs and switches to empty tracks !
This is not a new problem in 3b5 though.

Shrink 3b5 is a lot faster than 2.3 - 20 mins quicker on a project I just completed. I know about the residual audio/sub attributes problems, but it's not the same as what I wrote. What you wrote is after using DVDShrink. My problem was at the part after 3b5 had done analyzing. I couldn't transcode because I couldn't compress it down to fit, even if my first two problem I mentioned existed.

By the way, I'll probably have a guide on how to clean up the stripped streams attributes left behind if anyone needs it.

[Kedirekin]

I can't speak to all your issues, but I think I have a kernel of info regarding the subtitles.

I vaguely recall that DVDShrink 3 hides menu subpicture streams. I don't normally like programs that try to protect us from ourselves, but DVDShrink is a newbie-friendly one-click solution, so it's perhaps appropriate in this case.

I don't know how DVDShrink determines that a subtitle stream is a menu subpicture stream - I assumed it checked the stream for highlights in its analysis. Perhaps the determination is sometimes incorect, or perhaps DVDs are sometimes authored with (invisible) highlights with no commands attached to them.

Personally I've never run into this because I never remove subtitles.

[maa]

By the way, I'll probably have a guide on how to clean up the stripped streams attributes left behind if anyone needs it. That would be interesting as although I managed to stop the player showing the empty tracks by cleaning out the Video_ts.ifo I was unable to clean the vts_01_0.ifo (reducing the stream count to "0" did remove the entries)

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Here's the link (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=60444) to that guide in IFO/VOB Editors forum..