DVD shrink too much?

[devnulllore]

Hi,

I have a wierd situation. I have one of my favorite movies on DVD and it has become pretty badly scratched. Luckily I was able to get an image off the disc and now I want to burn it to a DVD-R so I don't have to use the original again. I ran the image through DVD-REbuilder to get it down to a single DVD-R size and something struck me as strange. The original image was 7.8gig and the processed image was only 1.5gig. It seems to me that something was missed or perhaps got screwed up in the process.

Has anyone ever seen this happn before?

DVD-Shrink reports that it has to use 49% compression to get the film down to size so I wanted to use DVD-Rebuilder as it does a much better job.

Thank for any help.

~dev

[uxbridge]

assuming the image is small size but the movie is watchable in its entire lenght (have you checked this?), DVDRebuilder is good at making full usage of the disk size, so it is really strange.

Try to use a different encoder, you should have at least QEnc and HCEnc in the package and see what happens.
Also have a look at what is displayed during encoding. The encoders should be able to stick at the projected bitrate.

If they are not and you stiil get a playable entire lenght movie of very small size, it might be the original quality can just be maintained with much smaller size. Some encoders can spot this because of the way they work. It is rather unusual though.

[redwudz]

That does seem like extreme 'shrinkage' from DVD-REbuilder. It sounds like it lost something.

The 49% from Shrink was the entire DVD? It sounds like 2 DVDs or a DL might be a better choice, unless you wanted to lose some of the extras.