shrink a movie

[natty]

I have a movie which is 7.72GB in VOB files. but i need to make it fit on a DVD. I have tried DVD Shrink but it wont shrink it down enough. is there another good shrink program what can do this

[ProWo]

Your movie is actually a mpeg2 movie.
You want to store it only on the DVD or you want to play them as a normal movie DVD, with menus?
In this last case you have to use an authoring app to create a new DVD.
For shrinking the movie only you can reencode it as mpeg2 movie (in this case you can author it to a new DVD) or to g.e. avc (x264) or hevc(x265).
The shrinking procedure can be done g.e. with my clever-FFmpeg-GUI.

[natty]

Your movie is actually a mpeg2 movie.
You want to store it only on the DVD or you want to play them as a normal movie DVD, with menus?
In this last case you have to use an authoring app to create a new DVD.
For shrinking the movie only you can reencode it as mpeg2 movie (in this case you can author it to a new DVD) or to g.e. avc (x264) or hevc(x265).
The shrinking procedure can be done g.e. with my clever-FFmpeg-GUI.

Well I want to play it with a normal movie DVD, with menus. so I need to shrink this 7.72GB movie with clever-FFmpeg-GUI is that easy to use

I just tried this program clever FFmpeg but it asks for a source file but there are several VOB files

[ProWo]

To start point to the *vts_01_1

[ProWo]

A doubt comes to my mind. Vob files are usually found only in DVD. If your Vob files are 7.72gb they probably come from a double layer DVD.
Then the easiest way would be to just burn the files to a double layer DVD, then you can just use them.

[abolibibelot]

Indeed burning to a double layer DVD-R seems like the best option, anything else will be quite complicated if you've never done it, and quality loss is inevitable.
Double layer DVDs are more expensive, but would seem to be more reliable (not for intrinsic reasons, quite the opposite in fact since they are more complex to produce, but perhaps precisely because they are more complex to produce, only first grade factories produce them, hence a better than average manufacturing process).

For shrinking the movie only you can reencode it as mpeg2 movie (in this case you can author it to a new DVD)

That's what DVDShrink does, isn't it ?
Problem is that MPEG2 is an inefficient lossy format, compared with current more sophisticated formats like H.264 / H.265, while only MPEG2 is allowed according the video DVD specifications. Shrinking 7.72GB of VOB files down to 4.37GB (the max capacity of a single layer DVD) would significantly degrade the quality.

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[natty]

To start point to the *vts_01_1

ok will do

[QUOTE=ProWo yes may do that too [/QUOTE]

DVDShrink[/url] does, isn't it ?
Problem is that MPEG2 is an inefficient lossy format, compared with current more sophisticated formats like H.264 / H.265, while only MPEG2 is allowed according the video DVD specifications. Shrinking 7.72GB of VOB files down to 4.37GB (the max capacity of a single layer DVD) would significantly degrade the quality.

Yes will most likely now burn to double layer DVD

[Off topic] This avatar makes me remember that I still haven't listened to the Power up album. The one track I heard (“Shot in the dark”) is definitely good old AC/DC rock'n'roll of the purest brew, catchier and groovier than anything they've released since 2000's Stiff upper lip, even though they lost their main driving force with the death of Malcolm Young. And the track list alone looks enticing, as if they had something a bit more interesting and relevant to sing than “I like kinky women” and “rock'n'roll rules”, for a change.

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[Sharc]

I have a movie which is 7.72GB in VOB files. but i need to make it fit on a DVD. I have tried DVD Shrink but it wont shrink it down enough. is there another good shrink program what can do this

For DVD compliant authoring:
DVD ReBuilder
AVStoDVD

[Anonymous5394]

I have a movie which is 7.72GB in VOB files. but i need to make it fit on a DVD. I have tried DVD Shrink but it wont shrink it down enough. is there another good shrink program what can do this

I used DVDShrink only yesterday and entered a 6+ GB DVD stripped of menus etc from a 7.74gb DVD source, ran it through Shrink and it shrank it to 72%. You can also compress it using an option utilizing sharpness. I deep scanned it and clicked on maximum sharpness. The 4472mb film looked better than the original source! I don't understand your statement at all, but if you are retaining menus, extras as well etc then I do as the quality of the main feature will take a big hit. You can get a portable of it on Videohelp stating it contains imgburn(which it does not by the way!)and it works fine even in Windows 10.

[Anonymous5394]

Glad to help. The menu I stripped was done easily with CloneDVD as DVDShrink cannot do that. Then I ran it though Shrink as I think it uses a much better compression algorithm.

[jagabo]

I have a movie which is 7.72GB in VOB files. but i need to make it fit on a DVD. I have tried DVD Shrink but it wont shrink it down enough.

I haven't used it in ages but the whole point of the program was to shrink double layer DVDs to fit on a single layer DVD. You're probably just using it wrong.

[Cornucopia]

Yeah, I've never had any issues with shrinking DLs to SLs with that app, regardless of starting size. It's all a matter of what you want to keep and what level of quality you are still requiring.

Scott