DVD Shrink won't shrink enough for me

[Bizzen]

I'm trying to get 3 disc's worth of video onto one and DVD Shrink won't compress that far. It is at it maximum for every single file and still shows double the storage capacity of the disc (around 8.3GB). I realise the quality implications and also I COULD get a larger DVDR, but I was hoping there would be a solution to this issue outside of changing the whole lot to AVI's and then authoring them from scratch (which I tried yesterday and was taking ages and ages).

Any help appreciated.

[jimmalenko]

DVDShrink it as-is, then run it through DVDShrink again ?

Or alternatively, use DVD-Rebuilder to re-encode. Or use something like convertxtodvd to re-encode.

Either way, 3 DVDs onto 1 DVD-5 will probably look ordinary anyway.

[guns1inger]

You have a couple of choices.

You can shrink it down as far as you can, save it to the HDD, then load up the new version and shrink it again.

You can try DVD Rebuilder to re-encode the video, using half-D1 if necessary.

You can demux the video, and resize to a more appropriate resolution (VCD sounds likely) and re-encode manually, then re-author.

Basically you are trying to fit way to much data into a finite space.

[dvdguy4]

What did you use to author the avi's to dvd format? More input on the apps you used and how you used them could get you more help.

[edsmith77]

As others have suggested, Shrink then reshrink and so on until you get to the size you need or the quality loss you can not stand (which will most likely come first).
Some time ago I did a test of doing exactly that. My source was an original that was DL and I wanted it on single layer. No problems Shrink worked as expected. But then I re ran that output through Shrink again and again. My threshold for quality would have been at the end of the 3rd Shrink effort. But Shrink would continue on.

[Bizzen]

Thanks guys. That shrink and re-shrink thing worked fine. As said though quality did suffer, so I ended up sticking the files on 2 discs instead of one.