compress DVD video

[avextraxjp]

What is the best way to compress DVD video without losing its DVD picture quality?

[guns1inger]

The short answer : Don't. use Verbatim +R DL discs and imgburn.

The longer answer : as little as possible, and use a high quality encoder if you must. Assuming you are starting with a DVD as your source, DVD Rebuilder with HCEnc will do a very good job, however I suggest you start by stripping the disc down to just the feature, without menus, then look at reducing what is left if necessary.

[filmboss80]

Sadly, the more you compress, the more you degrade picture quality.

[Bjs]

It depends , theres two solutions

guns1inger has given you an acceptable method to follow

And then there's ratdvd > http://ratdvd.ca/

MediaPlayer now supports ratDVD files in the video media library MediaPlayer now supports direct convert and burn of ratDVD files

Hmm ... I would trust that method as far as I could throw my pc out the window ... lol

[avextraxjp]

I'm presently using DVDshrink on a laptop, is that acceptable for high quality DVD video extraction/compression?

[tinker]

DVDShrink is not exactly good for high compression, you will do better with DVD Rebuilder.
But like guns1inger say, strip everything you do not want if you want to use DVD5. Rebuilder has that option also.

[ZippyP.]

I'm presently using DVDshrink on a laptop, is that acceptable for high quality DVD video extraction/compression?

Quality is in the eye of the beholder. Use as little compression as possible to preserve quality, you can re-author while discarding unnecessary extras and audio tracks.

[stiltman]

I did the Golden Compass with DVD Shrink, DVD-RB with procoder and then with HCenc.

I compared them all to each other and came to one conclusion. The original encoding sucks! The others just made it a little worse, however procoder smoothed it out a little.

Quality is in the eye of the beholder.

I agree 100%

[bengrimm99]

I've tried 2 copies of the original with DVDShrink, DVD Fab Decrypter 4.1.2.0, DVD Fab HD Decrypter 5.0.2.0 & 5.0.2.5, DVDRebuilder AND DVD Decrypter...on 2 seperate drives and I'm still getting error messages. The preview starts then a minute or so later it all locks up and says disc is unreadable. I don't usually have these problems, but now I'm getting the same error message in various forms from the different programs. HELP! :0

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Not sure why I couldn't read the discs, but I used AnyDVD and it opened them. Then I used CloneDVD to place the files in a new folder (full disc). Then DVDShrink to transcode/burn. Thanks, anyway