Strange DVD2OneX Problem

[tgpo]

I recently made a DVD of season 3 of Pete and Pete in DVDSP2. Grand total it came to 12.6GB. I exported out a VIDEO_TS folder and used DVD2OneX to compress it to fit on a DVD-R. If I press apple+I on the DVD folder (which contains the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders) it says the file size is 3.78GB, but if I check the file size of just the VIDEO_TS folder it tells me it is 6.51GB. Obviously DVD2OneX hasn't done its job here, but the fact that the entire DVD folder reads under 4GB baffles me.

Anyone ever had anything like this before?

[WiseWeasel]

Seems like the size reported for the whole DVD folder is wrong. What does Toast say? Anyways, the problem is likely due to DVD2OneX having removed all the padding streams and b-frames (or whatever) it could, and all you have left is the bare video stream, so it can't remove anymore. You might have better luck using DVDRemaster in Downsize mode, as it reencodes the video. The better solution would be to split your season 3 DVD across two discs in DVDSP, and then compressing those down to size with DVD2OneX or whatever, as the quality will be much better.

[tgpo]

What does Toast say?

6GB

You might have better luck using DVDRemaster in Downsize mode, as it reencodes the video.

Yeah I started it, but wasn't thrilled at the remaining time of 4 days.

The better solution would be to split your season 3 DVD across two discs in DVDSP, and then compressing those down to size with DVD2OneX or whatever, as the quality will be much better.

The episodes are from divx files, so the quality already isn't perfect.

[DeadLily]

Seems like the size reported for the whole DVD folder is wrong. What does Toast say? Anyways, the problem is likely due to DVD2OneX having removed all the padding streams and b-frames (or whatever) it could, and all you have left is the bare video stream, so it can't remove anymore. You might have better luck using DVDRemaster in Downsize mode, as it reencodes the video.

Actually, DVD2OneX *will* reencode at a lower resolution if you're persistent enough. I kept getting folder sizes that were too large when trying to reduce a 5 1/2 hour movie, joined from two separate DVDs. (Yes, I knew I was asking for trouble, but I was curious if I could pull it off.) I just kept feeding the results back into DVD2OneX, until it finally gave me a folder that was small enough. The resulting video was incredibly pixelated, and looked like a Quicktime movie playing on my television. Yet, it did play, in its entirety, and the pixelation was often tolerable.

[WiseWeasel]

The episodes are from divx files, so the quality already isn't perfect.

DTOXing the hell out of them isn't going to help that situation...

[tgpo]

I just took 5 episodes off the disk. I don't like it, but it'll work