6.50GB dvd to 4.5GB

[amitabhbansal]

Friends
i have a video of 2hr 15minutes. which is of 6.5 GB. I have 4.5GB blank dvd. Now i want to insert the full video in 4.5GB media without loosing its quality and the chapters, menu all thing. SOme1 suggest me DIVX but i dont know anything about it. Please tell me can the appropriate software to burn the 6.5GB video to 4.5GB Media.
Thanks

[AngusMacGyver]

Is your video in a DVD structure (VOB files in VIDEO_TS)?
If so, I'd use DVD Shrink or similar, but if you reduce video size you always lose quality.
Don't you want to record that video to a DVD+RDL?
Good luck.

[mats.hogberg]

If it's an mpg file, ReJig does for mpg what DVDShrink do for a full DVD.

/Mats

[ulapines]

DVD Rebuilder with HC encoder
It's free

[amitabhbansal]

Ya my video is in VOB files in VIDEO_TS. Now i dont want to use DVD Shrink becos it reduces the quality, I have heard of DIVX and XVID. please tell me which one i use it to make fit on the 4.5gb media without loosing quality.
Thanks

[ROF]

In order to do what you are asking you must take more than 30% of your audio/video recording and throw it away. You can not seriously expect no or negligable loss of quality by reducing the size of such a recording. My suggestion is get an 8.5GB disc and transfer to it with zero loss of quality.

[guns1inger]

Does your DVD player play back Divx or Xvid ? If not, you don't have much choice.

How much quality you loose depends in part to the quality of the original, and the way it was encoded. If it was encoded with a higher bitrate than necessary, you may find you can reduce the size enough with almost no noticable quality change. On the otherhand, if it was encoded with barely enough bitrate, any shift might be visible. You cannot just make a blanket statement about quality without looking at all the factors.

[SingSing]

amitabhbansal is asking to do this without loose of video quality. Visually you can't tell a 90% compressed DVD from the original easily, but with a 70% ratio (6.5GB to 4.5GB), you sure can see it.

[mats.hogberg]

Even if you go the AVI (XviD/DivX) route, and at least theoretically can achieve almost no quality loss, there's no way to keep the chapters and menu system from the original that way.

/Mats

[Treebeard]

how bout get a dual layer burner and discs if its that important not to shrink.