Compressing more than 24%

[MCAN]

Is there anyway I can compress a DVD in DVDShrink or any other program by more than 24%?

[nickelzy]

DVD Shrink allows you usually to compress all the way down to about 50% or so (but it depends on the movie and size of the files). Sometimes you can even go lower.

[northcat_8]

Instant Copy 7 or 8 allows you to compress clear down to 30% if you want...meaning 70% compression.

DVDshrink will also let you go past 24%

what are you trying to do?

[presto]

DVD shrink changed the way they refer to compression. In current versions 24% means that it takes up 24% of the space it did, not that it is comprssed 24%. In other words 100% means not compressed at all.

If you need more compression just run it through DVD shrink again.

[MCAN]

what are you trying to do?

I'm trying to put all of the original star wars trilogy onto one disc. I've put them all in one with TMPGENG DVD Author but with DVD Shrink I can only compress upto 24% compression.

I can go from approx. 7.5 GB (uncompressed) to 5.4 GB (24%).

You say that I can go past 24% with DVDShrink, so how can I?

[ghoster]

run them through shrink again and see what happens

[chaseru]

I'm trying to put all of the original star wars trilogy onto one disc.

If DVDShrink doesn't work you could do it the old fashioned way by using DVD2AVI and re-encode with TMPGEnc but use MPEG2 at 320x480 or even MPEG1 at 320x240.

[MCAN]

I've re-run it through DVDShrink with the same results.

How can I move it farther than 23.8%?

Does DVDShrink have a quality limit?

[presto]

I've re-run it through DVDShrink with the same results.

I'm not saying to try again. I'm saying to compress the DVD once with DVD shrink and then take the resulting files and run THEM through DVDshrink.

If you really did get the same results twice that would mean you had shrunk the files to 24% of their former size and then had taken those files and reduced them to 24% of their former size. That is a heck of a lot of compression.

[glockjs]

why is it even worth all that work to get shatty video quality? not even worth watching anymore.

[MCAN]

why is it even worth all that work to get shatty video quality? not even worth watching anymore.

I'd like to accomplish the task, is that alright?

The first two are under 2GB each anyway, Jedi is the big one at approx 3.5GB, so really I'm not losing too much really.

It's like shrinking a DVD9 to a DVD5, like I've already mentioned in previous posts.

[MysticE]

Try the trial of InterVideo DVD Copy, it's vid quality is superb with major compression.

http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/InterVideoDVDCopy_Profile.jsp