Shrinking DVDs extra small? Program Suggestions?

[unclebok]

I have a dvd video complete with menus that is only 984 mb I want to shrink it to fit on a CD-R burned as a Mini DVD. Obviously, my target size is 700mb but dvdshrink will ony allow me to pull it down from 984 to 861mb. I suppose I could chip away at it with dvd shrink over and over until it shrinks small enough, but I'm afraid of what that will do to the overall quality.

What
Would
YOU
Do?

[ZippyP.]

You need to re-encode. Do you want to keep the menus?

[69mako]

You know, I tried this one time with a slideshow DVD. My home stereo would not recognize the CDR, but my computer would. just something to think about.

Mako

[Ibme]

Hmmm… can you do that? Can you burn a mini-DVD on a CD?
Excuse my ignorance… would that be the same as a SVCD?
I’ve never had a DVD that small to deal with, so never considered it.

Now as to what I would do…

I was going to suggest Nero Recode2 (Nero 6 Ultra), because it allows you to select a custom size (MB).

However since you mentioned DVD Shrink, I checked it out and it also allows you to select custom sizes.
You’ll find it on the ‘Edit’ menu under ‘Preferences’.
[img]https://www.videohelp.com/forum/images/guides/p1241707/dvd_pref.jpg[img]https://www.videohelp.com/forum/images/guides/p1241707/

Let us know if that works for you or if you’ve already tried that.

FYI… when I was burning VCDs, I was able to put 836MB on a CD.
I don’t know if that includes overburning, so you might want to limit it to 800MB.

I am currently re-authoring a VCD that is 756MB.
I know it will fit on a CD, because I ripped it from a VCD I created some time ago.
In fact, I had so much extra room; I included the credits, which I don’t normally do.

Good luck,
hope this helps

[mats.hogberg]

Yes, reencode the main video @ a lower bitrate, or do as you suggest yourself - repeatedly shrink it down. Another alternative is to shring the mpeg (not the DVD) with ReJig. You can just set a percentage.
Like 69mako points out, the fully miniDVD capable players are scarse, and beware of high bitrates - that's what makes most that do formally play miniDVD choke. Even if it plays as such, the DVD data rate is too high to be read from a CD (the player can't spin the CD fast enough).

@Ibme: MiniDVD is just that - a DVD structure (and Video DVD compliant content) on CD.

[Baldrick]

minidvd is not svcd or vcd, www.videohelp.com/minidvd