doesn anyone know how to keep menu using DVDShrink

[andy]

i want to ask if any one know a way to keep menu using dvdshrink. i try rip the menu as well, but it doesn't do the same as the menu...
please let me know a way that i can shrink dvd9 to dvd5 and still keep the menu...

thank you....

[bartman]

Do a full disk rather than re-authoring....if you don't want to keep the extras or aren't going to view them, encode them as still pictures...you will then have the maximum quality without breaking the menu structure.

[beefgravy]

this is where i just found DCS very useful,as i could remove the extras completely first, and let it encode without any compression. then i ran it through dvd-shrink after and it worked out great

[AND1]

whats DCS

[poopyhead]

this is where i just found DCS very useful,as i could remove the extras completely first, and let it encode without any compression. then i ran it through dvd-shrink after and it worked out great

how many layers you putting the files through. each time you encode/transcode, you're gonna lose quality.

i.e. something dumb, but to make a point. if you take a movie that's 5mbit/s and put it through tmpgenc or cce and make the output exactly the same bitrate at 5 mbit/s, the output will still be worse than the original simply because you re-encoded it. may wanna avoid doing that as much as possible.

that's one of the drawbacks of SVCDs vs. CVDs cuz CVDs have DVD compatible resolution and can thus be directly authored onto DVDs with no problem. however, SVCDs need to be re-encoded to DVD compatible resolution, which will loose quality during that re-encode.