Double sided dual layer???

[shadowofanubis6]

I think i may have a double sided dual layer disk if that's even possible. I want to make a copy of shindler's list and it's a double sided dvd. I use dvddecryptor to get side 1 which syas it's 8 gigs on it's own. I flip it over and it says 8 gigs on the second side as well. Unfortunatly i dont have that kind of space on my hard drive. I tried looking at a guide where it said to have one side on the hdd and one run off the dvd-rom for dvdshrink to read off of while making it a 4.7 gig disc, but that failed when it came time to read off the dvd i think. It gave me some protection error. Any ideas on what i could do here?

[CoffeeEater]

You want to put both sides on one DVD-5 (4.35 gigs)?

Don't do that. Treat each side as a separate disc and make 1 DVD-R of each side.

[Cinemagic]

DVD Decrypter on side 1, then use DVD Shrink. Do the same thing to side 2. Burn each one.

Or use DVD Shrink for the movie only for both side 1 & 2 to get better compression. You could combine them after this in DVD Shrink again and put them both on one disk. I did it with Schindler's List, but I burned to a dual layer disk. You might be able to do it to a single layer, but my guess is that the compression would be too much and it would not look too good.

[Cunhambebe]

I've always thought the best solution (for compatibility - since dual layer DVDs are somehow a headache - and quality) is to use DVD Shrink to re-author and to split the movie to fit on 2 single layer discs. If you're compressing with DVD Shrink you should not compress more than 20%, that means using a file at 80% of its original size (DVD Shrink will show you 80% = that means 20% of compression). Please note that this is intended to backup your own DVDs.