Does DVD Shrink have size limits

[sparkafatty]

I have run across several DVD's 7.5 gigs ot so in size and it seems dvdshrink won't shrink em down enough to fit on a siongle disc.

example a 7.9G dvd shrinks to approx 4.9G when i load it into dvdshrink. the automatic and manuual seem to not allow any more shrinkage than that. of course i get the warning that the final shrunk file may not fit onto a single dvd...... i have never went past that point to try and see if somehow it might all fit on 1 dvd.....

has anyone else experienced this and if so any ideas on what to do beside split the disc into o.

is there a different way to adjust the compression rate other than the automatio and ratio settings i see after the disc is loaded into dvdshrink.

this never happend until recently and i have run into this atleast 6 times.

any ald all help is appreciated.THANKS

[AdamRA4]

It depends on how big the Main Movie is. Some are HUGE. So it is a good idea to Re-Author the Main Movie only or split between two discs. 2COOL had guides on the left, use those to show you the way.

[sparkafatty]

thanks for the reply.

i did try the reauthor function. i have used it before and have a tutorial that taught me what to do so i feel pretty comforatble with what i was doing. i say all that because when i did the reauthor and just loaded the main movie i still got an error and it said the main movie was 5 gigs or so and the auto compression was at 48% or so. ...... seemed funny to me that the reauthored file was bigger than the whole disc after it compressed it.


i have a compression adjustment question. lets say the entire movie is cpmpressed at 48% when automatic is checked.... when i click on the manual compression setting i can't go less than the 48%, only higher... is that how it works?? or is there another way to compress down past that??? again thanks for the help

[Poppa_Meth]

I've had problem discs like that before. its something in the way they write the IFO files that confuses shrink. the ones I've seen make it seem like there are 2 complete versions of the movie on the disc when it is really only referencing the one set of VOBs in a different way. to fix it I rip the main movie only with DVD Decryptor and use IFO Edit to generate new IFO and BUP files. then I load the result into DVD Shrink for Compression and no longer have such problems.

[ddlooping]

i say all that because when i did the reauthor and just loaded the main movie i still got an error and it said the main movie was 5 gigs or so and the auto compression was at 48% or so. ...... seemed funny to me that the reauthored file was bigger than the whole disc after it compressed it.

sparkafatty, it's probably because you "dragged" more than one title to the re-author window.
Make sure "View >> Combine shared video titles" is unchecked before re-authoring.

DVD Shrink does have a compression limit.
It was even raised by 3% in v3.1.x to minimize the risk of oversized backups when Deep analysis was not used.
However, dvdshrink decided to change it back to v3.0b5 level in v3.1.3.
I'd like to think I had something to do with it.