Still won't fit !

[dblackhawk]

Hi,
I posted before and after much trial and error, learned to take 3 TV episodes that arer 45 minutes long, make menus, and make my .vob, ivf, etc. files. When I tried to burn to the disk, I'm told that the disk won't fit all the info (using 4.7 G disks).
Then, someone posted and told me that it WOULD tell me that it was too much, but go ahead and burn it anyway, it will fit.
NERO WILL NOT let me burn it, as it exceeds disk capacity.
Total running time is 2:15 min, much less than some factory DVDs. What in the world is going on ????
I'm using Nero 6.3.1.17, Windows XP, an 8.5 GB max capacity double layer DVD burner .
Please tell me how I can fit these disk-ready files and this 2:15 movie on the DVD. Is there a way to shrink it, do I have to somehow downgrade the quality (it was captiured from a VHS) and what program can I use, and how do I do it? Sorry, I know that's alot to ask.......
Thanks,
Hawk

[jtoolman2000]

If you have the DVD folders in yoour HD just run them through DVDShrink and shrink till it fits. You may experience a loss of quality. By the way commercial discs are 8+ gigs unlike burnable DVDs. So yes, they will allow more total time that -+r discs

How did you make your convertions to Vobs?

[dblackhawk]

I used DVD AuthorGUI.
How would I adjust DVD Shrink to reduce it? I quite familiar with DVD Shrink and use it often, but never to actually shrink files. Yes, all files are on my HD.
Thanks
HAWK

[guns1inger]

You are kidding, right ? Look up shrink in the tools section, and read through some of the many, many guides there are. Or simply have a look around the program. It is one of the simplest DVD manipulation tools around and most of the important bits are right out in the open.

[jtoolman2000]

Just load it and it be shrunken automatically

[Prot]

The dvd needs to be authored (VOB files) and residing on your hard drive....it does not even need to be in a VIDEO_TS, just its own directory. Then when you open dvdshrink, select that directory.

[jimmalenko]

Then, someone posted and told me that it WOULD tell me that it was too much, but go ahead and burn it anyway, it will fit.

Someone's telling porkies ... https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=274612

No-one said to go ahead and burn it anyway. dphirschler said that if you were solely concerned with 2:15 fitting on a DVD, then don't be. At the end of the day you can make any running time fit on a DVDR so long as you used the correct bitrate.

As I said in that thread, you need to use a bitrate calculator and you should always go on the conservative side to allow for authoring overhead and other things. I'd say you've used the wrong bitrate.


... and as the guys say, if you can't work out DVDShrink by a) just looking around the program or b) looking in the Guides section, well .... <holds tongue> ...

[dfluke]

So I'm curious, If you don't use DVDShrink for shrinking, what do you use it for?

[guns1inger]

I use it to chock open the door to let the cat in . . . . and I don't even have a cat.

[jimmalenko]

I use it for world domination ...... and for making my DVD ISOs that I upload via P2P Region 8