Compressing VOB files?

[Wicked-n-Twisted]

Ok,First of all I`ve made backups to many of my movies that the kids like to terrorize.I`ve used DVDShrink to make these and have kept the files on my cpu.Obviously it didn`t take long to fill up my hard drive.I downloaded WinZip 9.0 beta to compress these files and I went from an original folder size of 4.35gb to 4.26 gb.Are VOB files unable to compressed or what?I`m extremely inexperienced when it comes to compressing files so if anyone has any tips or advice than I`d greatly appreciate it.

I also apologize if this is in the wrong forum.I wasn`t really sure where this fit.

[sterno]

Almost everything inside a VOB file is already compressed, so it can't be zipped down any smaller.

[Wicked-n-Twisted]

Damn that sux.

Thanks alot for the info man.It`s much appreciated.

[dxj40c]

I have found that "DVD2one" will compress .vob files pretty well. It advertises that it will fit any movie on one single-layer DVD. In practice, I have found that that it works well only up to about 117 minutes movie length without problems. It allows you omit everything except the movie with one sound track. Stick the movie in and it starts playing, no menus. I have had movies longer than 2 hours freeze on a standalone player but play fine on the computer DVD rom. My standalone is an early model Pioneer and that may be the problem as it was made before PC DVD burning was in vogue. I haven't tried it on anything made since 1998.