3in1 DVD backup help!

[biggy7]

hi guys,

ive just got my self a dvd from abroad its a 3in1 movie dvd, dual layer, total size: 7,305,732,096 bytes, each movie got 5.1DD.

now im trying to shrink it to fit on a dvdr, but cant seem to get it shrunk enough!

running it through dvdshrink b5, left everything at defualt the output size it gives is: 5.264Mb, and the ratio bar is set at minumim!

now ive de selected the subs that i dont need, but thats as much as i can deseclect.

anyone know how i can do this? ive tried recode2 get the same results it wont let me transcode cos of the size.

can this dvd be backed up?

thanks!

[2COOL]

Did you know you can run your DVD Shrinked movie through...DVD Shrink again? ;)

[biggy7]

Originally posted by 2COOL
Did you know you can run your DVD Shrinked movie through...DVD Shrink again? ;)

i thought of that , but what of the quality mate? as you can imagine the quality left alone is good, but not dvd quality.

i will try runninh through shrink again :)

thanks!

[2COOL]

Originally posted by biggy7
i thought of that , but what of the quality mate? as you can imagine the quality left alone is good, but not dvd quality. Well you are playing with 7,305,732,096 bytes so you will have to expect some quality decrease. For better quality, you should look into encoding your DVD instead of trancoding. As for transcoding programs, ReJig is making good results on getting better quality close to CCE.

[Richk50]

"ReJig is making good results on getting better quality close to CCE."

I haven't used it yet. How does it get such good results? I thought it used a transcoding engine, similar to other 1 step solutions.

[biggy7]

hi guys

just an update, i tried every s/w i could think of and the lowest i got the dvd down to was about 5.2gb, and the quality as you can imagine was terrible. (obvious as the 3 films on it already would have had to be compressed to fit on the dvd9 it self.

so my question is, is there no way to get it down to 4.36Gb?

if not am i right in saying that a film with 7,305,732,096 bytes cannot be "shrunk"? or was it cos it was a 3in1?

thanks!

[Kedirekin]

I think there is probably no way to get that particular disk down to 4.36 GB. It's not so much because it was 6.8 GB to start with - many people have done bigger disks than that with success - I'm guessing it's because it has so much content on it. How much total time do the 3in1 add up too? Over 4 hours? The authoring studio already compressed it rather severly to get it all to fit, so you don't have much room to play with for a transcode.

You could try re-encoding it with CCE or TMpgEnc, but no matter how you dice it, fitting 4 or more hours of video on a single 4.32 GB DVDR would be tough. If it were easy, the authoring studio would have done it. Personally, if it is over 4 hours, I wouldn't even try. I'd just split it to two disks.

[Richk50]

If you take into account all the time and effort you've spent trying to squeeze this content into 1 dvdr and it still doesn't work, just use another dvdr and keep the quality you have.