DVD Shrink will only compress to 99%

[Gplracer]

I used DVD shrink to back up my first movie and it worked great. Now I am trying my second one but it will only let me compress to 99%. The final file obviously is still way too big. What could be the cause of this? I put it on ratio and slide the slider all the way to the left and that is only 99%. Thanks!

[Gplracer]

I tried another dvd and it seemed to work fine until I did the deep analysis now the lowest compression I can pick is 74% which makes the movie just slightly too big. Am I missing something?

[jtoolman2000]

Are you trying to backup the whole DVD? Some DVDs are simply too large. Try just the movie with a single audio and one Sub Title. I;ve never run across a DVD I couldn't backup with Shrink. Knock on wood!!! I did have one that ended up larger than the target file ( 4.38Gig ) so I loaded the Ripped Movie back through Shrink in FILE mode and just reduced a wee bit more and that worked perfectly well.

[ebenton]

I had a movie that I backed up using DVD Shrink a while back on which I had to make one copy with 6-channel Dolby Digital Sound (AC-3) and one copy with 6-channel DTS sound. I could not fit both sound tracks and the movie onto a single disk.

[lacywest]

Last week I did a rip and DVDShrink ... wouldn't shrink it enuff

So ... I ripped the DVD to my harddrive and tried Nero Recode 2 ...

... no problems ... successfully worked.

[jtoolman2000]

Guess what? Recode is Shrink re-dressed. It's been speculated that the author of DVD Shrink collaborated with NERO and wrote Recode 2. The diference is that you need Any DVD to be able to Copy a protected DVD.

[bottle-necked]

Have you tried DVD Shrink Version 2.3. I like it better.

[hech54]

I think it is disgraceful....now we will forever be associating a GREAT product like DVDShrink to crap like Nero.....makes me SICK.

[Gplracer]

Why is it that after deep analysis I can not go lower in compression than 75%? I could before deep analysis. I did copy the movie by making the menus pictures.

[jtoolman2000]

think it is disgraceful....now we will forever be associating a GREAT product like DVDShrink to crap like Nero.....makes me SICK.

It's all in the eye of the beholder or in this case the user. I hear over and over about NERO = Crap and yet I've had 100% success with it in three separate machines with diferent OSs ( Win 98 - Win 200 and Win XP home ) and diferent HW configs. I'm up to V 6.3.0.2 and can do everything I would want with it. Even my two girls constantly use it for ripping music and I primarily use it with DVD production.

I guess I must be lucky. I don't doubt some people's machines are obviously having some sort of conflict with Nero. One thing I've noticed is that it doesn't like to live along side Roxio Products.

[tavito]

I have had the same problem so what I did was backup to the lowest it can and then refeed it and you can go even lower, this has work like charm for me several times, I hope it works for you!!!!

[tavito]

I have had the same problem so what I did was backup to the lowest it can and then refeed it and you can go even lower, this has work like charm for me several times, I hope it works for you!!!!