Le Femme Nikita Season 1 Question

[Thunder In Paradise]

Has anybody else backed up this series yet? Or atleast know of anyway to get a better compression ratio? So far, I haven't been able to get any lower then around 40% compression.

[wulf109]

Typical episode DVD has a 3 hour running time and 4 episodes. 40% is the best you can get out of a 3 hour running time.

[aggies11]

When you are doing episode discs, "shrinking" to a single DVD-5 (DVDr) is not always the preferred option. Sometimes the quality of each episode is encoded in such a way that is of less quality than individual movies (so they can fit 4 per disc!). This means that there is less overhead to play with(to shrink) meaning that they won't shrink as well. (Eg. 50% for one movie might look okay, where 50% for an episode disc might be pretty bad).

The more popular choice, is splitting it onto 2 discs. This is actually better in this situation, because you can still have 2 episodes per disc. We don't like splitting movies because it interrupts the middle of the movie. But with episode discs, you can organize so it doesn't happen. You already have a bunch of discs to beging with, so the "extra disc" complaint is lessened somewhat? (6discs or 12 discs? Either way, it's alot of discs!)

I actually have the rather daunting task of backing up my entire Series of Star Trek: TNG DVD's in the near future. (At well over $1000 for the collection, I want those originals to last forever!!) Something close to 50 original discs, which will result in about 100 DVDr's. But I so don't have a problem having 2episodes per disc. I'l just fit them all in a binder anyway.

Hope that helps,

Aggies