anyway to compress files outside of video_ts folder?

[spiffy]

Hi everyone,

I have a disc which has a couple of extra folders beside VIDEO_TS, and the contents are over 3GB in size, which made the entire disc dual-layer. The actual movie is less than 4GB. Is there any way to preserve everything but still be able to backup onto a single layer? I'm completely baffled.

Any tips and suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Spiffy

[redwudz]

What's in the 'extras' folders? If it's video, you may be able to compress it. But it would probably be easier to just burn it on a separate disc.

[spiffy]

Actually, there are a couple of video files -- both wmv and Quicktime. Can they be shrunk like DVD video? I have no experience with them whatsoever.

[redwudz]

Not 'shrunk' as in DVD Shrink, but they can be re-encoded. WMV is easy enough if you have Windows Movie Maker on your computer. Quicktime is a little harder. You could use the freeware program SUPER to convert both to a different format, maybe MPEG-1, which is fairly compact. You would have to decide were you want to use your room on a DVD for the videos. Figure if you could reduce the main movie down to 3GB, that would leave about 1.3GB for the extra videos. A DVD has about 4.37GB total space. It would still be easier to just burn the extras to a second disc.

EDIT: I guess I should add, you can put most anything you want outside the VIDEO_TS or audio folder. A standalone DVD player won't even see them. The ones you have were likely made to run on a computer.

[spiffy]

Can they just be re-encoded into smaller file sizes, while preserving the file formats?

Hmm, just realized that I can't use Windows Movie Maker, since I am on Win2K

[redwudz]

SUPER seems to be able to encode in both formats, .mov and .wmv. It's freeware, so you have little to lose.

[mats.hogberg]

...or put the content of the "extras" folder on a separate data disc. Or just forget about the "extras" alltogether.

/Mats