DVD Shrink Ver. 3.2.0.15 not recognized by SVCD2DVD

[jpmoffa]

I have installed SVCD2DVD, Version 2.1 (Build 2.1.2308) and DVD Shrink, Version 3.2.0.15. I am very satisfied with the performance of SVCD2DVD.

However, when I go to General Setting: Other and check "Shrink to fit with DVD Shrink", this option has DVD Shrink (NOT INSTALLED) appended to it. I know DVD Shrink is installed and operational, because I have successfuly used it with DVD Decrypter. DVD Shrink is installed in C:\Program Files\DVD Shrink.

Do I have to uninstall DVD Shrink Version 3.2.0.15 and install Version 3.2.0.14? And if, so where can I obtain this older version of DVD Shrink? Is there another fix for this problem?

[ChrissyBoy]

SVCD2DVD looks @ the following registry key for DVDShrink:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DVD Shrink\DVD Shrink 3.2\Preferences\InstallApp

So make sure that key exists and the the value is to location of the dvdshrink exe (should be C:\Program Files\DVD Shrink\DVD Shrink 3.2.exe) in your case.

If this is not the case then either add/edit by hand or probably a reinstall of shrink should do the job.

[jpmoffa]

I uninstalled DVD Shrink and reinstalled it. That did the trick!!!

Thank you for your prompt reply and solution to my minor problem.

[mwkurt]

Just curious...why would you even want to use DVDShrink with SVCD2DVD? Seems to me that you would be encoding once and transcoding once. Isn't that worse for the video than just encoding once? Why not just use "Fit to DVD" on SVCD2DVD and do it right the first time? I am not saying that it is right or wrong, I am really curious about this. Maybe you can convince me that I am missing something.
Thanks,
Mark

[Jikchung]

DVDShrink comes into play when you are using .mpeg assets. Since .mpeg's are not re-encoded (except for audio) and only de- and re-muxed the file sizes aren't changed (exept for audio overhead, so a 400MB file might become a 405MB file), "autofit" doesn't work on DVD's authored this way with S2D.

Say you have 5 assets totaling 4.8GB. Too big for a DVD5, but to lose 1 file will give a DVD of 3.84GB (too much wasted space for some) and another of .96GB (a lot of wasted space), so you author the 4.8GB DVD, shrink to 91% (a very acceptable level) with DVDShrink and burn a full 4.37GB DVD with all 5 assets.

[mwkurt]

Thanks for that explanation. That will work for me. You convinced me!
Mark