TMPGEnc DVD Author and DVD Shrink

[joolzhaines]

Hi,

Has anyone had the problem that I have,

I am using TMPGEnc DVD Author to create a menu for my mpgs which works great, but I create the dvd bigger then a dvd-r and I then want to shink my created dvd using DVD Shrink. My main reason for this is to fit more mpg's on a cd, but once DVD Shrink has loaded the TMPGEnc DVD it crashes out. Does anyone know why this is happening.

Thanks

Joolz

[BobK]

My guess is that you're using the 3.0 beta version of shrink. Try using version 2.3 to open the DVD. Then make a backup with no compression. Version 3 will then open the new backup and you can shrink it. (Or you can just use version 2.3 to do the compression too)

[lacywest]

Yep ... DVDShrink 3 Beta 5 ... fails to read the VIDEO_TS folder ... TMPGEnc DVD Author creates.

Yep ... DVDShrink 2.3 ... will read sucessfully.

So create a output folder for DVDShrink 2.3 to output to ... and then fire up DVDShrink 3 Beta 5.

You should have no problems ... except for a bunch of VIDEO_TS folders scattered all over your drives ... I have 6 drives.

I usually use the 5% setting in DVDShrink 2.3 for this purpose.

[turk690]

to joolzhaines, alternatively, with the help of BeSweet, you can re-encode the DD audio streams to a lower bitrate. For example if it's 256kb/s now you can convert it to 192kb/s. The requirements are BeSweet, and for best compatibilities the original stream should be PCM *.wav. It's true DVD-Shrink 3b5 reads VIDEO_TS files created by TMPGEnc DVD-Author, then stops and declares errors. It's hard to see which program is at fault: the last stable DVD-Shrink 2.3, as lacywest says, does read them correctly. BUT DVD-Shrink 3b5 DOES read correctly VIDEO_TS files created by DVD-Lab.