have a question Im new about blu ray burner

[sdavis]

I have a question i just got a blue ray burner yesterday is there a way you can shrink the movie like you you do with dvdshrink or a way you can just copy to the hard drive and burn it later ?

[jman98]

There are no DVDShrink type easy tools to shrink BluRay discs. They can be shrunk, but it's a very intensive, manual process that doesn't always work correctly. In theory you can rip them and burn them to burnable BluRay discs, but since I think all burnable discs are 25 GB and most BluRay discs are 50 GB, 1 to 1 copies aren't possible either, so all you could do is manually shrink it to fit and burn it to a new BluRay disc, losing all the menus and any extras.

[PuzZLeR]

Well with DvD it was simple, the shrinking was a movie on a bigger disc onto a smaller one:

DvD-9 -> DvD-5

Blu-ray? Just a few combos are...

50GB BD -> 25GB BD
50GB BD -> BD-9 (AVCHD)
50GB BD -> BD-5 (AVCHD)
50GB BD -> DvD-9
50GB BD -> DvD-5
25GB BD -> BD-9 (AVCHD)
25GB BD -> BD-5 (AVCHD)
25GB BD -> DvD-9
25Gb BD -> DvD-5

...and I didn't even mention further permutations with the 3x more codecs on blu-ray. DvD video only hosted MPEG-2. Now we can manipulate, and encode with, MPEG-2, H.264/AVC and VC-1. The latter two codecs are much more efficient, but very CPU intensive.

Now you can see why Jman98 couldn't possibly give you the straightest answer. If you'd like to rephrase your question one of us may be able to help you better.

[beezneez52]

You need to use TsMuxer - quality is dodgy if you don't add the appropriate files.

[redwudz]

There is also the beta version of BD Rebuilder, which works similar to DVD Shrink, but for BD discs. tsMuxeR can also author to BD discs. But neither program is easy as Shrink, mainly because the BD structure is a bit more complex than a DVD. See 'WHAT IS' Blu-ray to the upper left on this page for information on the format.