No Compression (help needed [maybe])

[NtegrA]

Here's the situation:

I was backing up Anchorman (Unrated R1). I'm using DVD-RB .72.

I removed french and english DD 2.0 audio tracks. Extras were set to 25% drop in quality. I have CCETargetSectors=2260007 defined in Rebuilder.ini.

This resulted in my output being 4.68 which of course is too big.

I then got the bright idea to use the "no compression" option along with the "AVS/resize to half-D1" on the extras VTS's (not knowing if this would actually do anything) to see if I could reduce the extras a little more and drop the size enough to fit on a DVDR without re-encoding the main movie. Also CCETargetSectors was changed to 2250000 (not sure if this affected anything either, this was done after deciding to re-encode and just before deciding to use "no compression").

My result was the VIDEO_TS folder shrank to 4.28 (which is GREAT). The only problem with this is that even though I said no compression, the only video that seems to have been touched is the main movie file. All other VOBs remain exactly the same size they started off as.

I also tried this with no AVS options set. Just "no compression" and got the same results.

Both were done with the "One Click" mode if that matters. Original was done using regular mode and RB-Farm with 2 machines.

Any answers as to why the video was re-encoded? Could it be that my VOBs were wrong and the "no compression" step corrected something, as in my original result was actually 4.28 but erroneously reporting 4.68?

here is the sizes of the movie VOBs before and after "no compression":

542750 - 542750
1048574 - 1048574
1048574 - 1048574
1048574 - 634344
3278

[jdobbs]

"No compression" means, well... no compression. If you run with this option set, nothing happens except a demux followed by a remux. Resizing switches have no effect (you can't resize without reencoding). But... if you remove audio or subs during the "no compression" it can make is smaller. That's the only way.