Stuck with storage issue

[wowthatshuge]

I have a laptop with 30 gigs of hard drive space. After music, pics, programs, etc., i dont have a lot of space to store movies. After putting them on my hard drive via dvddecryptor, the take up about 7 gigs of space. I can fit about two. Now here is my problem, my buddy let me borrow 10 of his dvd's. I am going off to college next week and need to give them back. My burner has not arrived in the mail yet so i will not have time to burn them. I don;t even know all the basics to burn yet either, so i still need time to figure that out. Anyway, is there a way to keep the files on my hard drive, but shrink them WAY down so i can burn them at a later point in time? Please help. Thank you for whoever is reading this.

You are in breach of the forum rules and are being issued with a formal warning. Sorry, but copying discs FOR someone else still breaches the AUP.
/ Moderator vitualis

[housepig]

Now here is my problem, my buddy let me borrow 10 of his dvd's.

that is a problem - copying borrowed dvd's violates the Forum rules, it's considered warez (since you are not backing up your own discs).

sorry. can't help you.

[wowthatshuge]

I am backing them up for the friend but he needs them back by the time i move. I promised i would do it for him because he lent me the money for the DVD burner. Im going to mail him his back-ups once i finish them.

[Will Hay]

I am backing them up for the friend but he needs them back by the time i move. I promised i would do it for him because he lent me the money for the DVD burner. Im going to mail him his back-ups once i finish them.

Good answer.
The answer is really no I'm afraid.
All you can do is encode down to the size of a dvd5, ie. 4.3gb-ish.
Will