Rebuilding DVD Movie...???

[GangstaRap]

i have a VITEO_TS file weight 4.9 GB.
i want to burn it on a DVD-R - but as you know it has 4.7GB of free space.
so i thought about cutting the movie's credits,
but i guess its a lot of work... (demuxing, cutting, muxing...)
and i'm not sure cutting the credits will be enough - in order to fit it into DVD-R.

is there any other option to do it other than cutting it?
i mean something like rebuilding the VIDEO_TS file?

ThanX!!!

[j1d10t]

Try DVDShrink.

[jimmalenko]

i have a VITEO_TS file weight 4.9 GB.
i want to burn it on a DVD-R - but as you know it has 4.7GB of free space.

It actually only has 4.37GB free space

so i thought about cutting the movie's credits,
but i guess its a lot of work... (demuxing, cutting, muxing...)
and i'm not sure cutting the credits will be enough - in order to fit it into DVD-R.

is there any other option to do it other than cutting it?
i mean something like rebuilding the VIDEO_TS file?

I agree with j1d10t. Just dump the whole thing into DVDShrink and let it work its magic. Either that or if there's a couple of extras or whatever that you don't want, use VOBBlanker to get rid of them. Foreign audio tracks are the same. Depending on how much you get rid of, you may not need DVDShrink to apply any compression at all.

[ntscuser]

Just dump the whole thing into DVDShrink and let it work its magic. Either that or if there's a couple of extras or whatever that you don't want, use VOBBlanker to get rid of them. Foreign audio tracks are the same. Depending on how much you get rid of, you may not need DVDShrink to apply any compression at all.

Just one small caveat. If the disc is of foreign origin, removing the native language audio or subtitles could prevent playback altogether. There is a way around that but it's not for beginners.

[jimmalenko]

Just dump the whole thing into DVDShrink and let it work its magic. Either that or if there's a couple of extras or whatever that you don't want, use VOBBlanker to get rid of them. Foreign audio tracks are the same. Depending on how much you get rid of, you may not need DVDShrink to apply any compression at all.

Just one small caveat. If the disc is of foreign origin, removing the native language audio or subtitles could prevent playback altogether. There is a way around that but it's not for beginners.

If DVDShrink's "remap logical streams" is ticked then I think that issue should take care of itself. At worst it's just a little tinker with either IFOEdit or PGCedit to change the default audio to 0x81 or whatever it needs to be.

[GangstaRap]

Thanks for the great help guys!!!
i used DVD Shrink and it worked great!! thanks.

but...

It actually only has 4.37GB free space

DVD-R is 4.37GB?
isnt it 4.7?
on the disc its printed 4.7GB with gold letters...

do i miss something?

[jimmalenko]

It actually only has 4.37GB free space

DVD-R is 4.37GB?
isnt it 4.7?
on the disc its printed 4.7GB with gold letters...

do i miss something?

Yes.

DVDs are 4,700,000,000 Bytes, which manufacturers like to tell you is 4.7GB using a base 10 counting scale (1KB = 1000B).

However everything to do with computers uses base 2 (1KB = 1024B), and so it follows that:

4,700,000,000B /1024 = 4,589,844KB

4,589,844KB / 1024 = 4,482MB

4,482 /1024 = 4.377GB


See http://www.videohelp.com/dvd#dvdsizes for more info.

[GangstaRap]

jimmalenko,
OK, Thanks for the important info man!