Problem with LOTR's and DVDShrink

[MAXIMUS01CAN]

Howdy All,

Just bought the LOTR's series a bit ago. I use DVDShrink for all my backups as it works just great. I knew there might be a problem with the LOTR's being so large but I thought I'd give it a go anyway. Even with DVDShrink in Reauthor mode it is still compressing it to 55%. Is there any other way in media or something that will work for this? or will it be a good enough backup to watch on my larger system.

Thanks in Advance and DVDShrink Rules

Max

[Jikchung]

https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=565#comments

Works great for me.

[garryheather]

Are you remembering to remove any subtitles and audio tracks you will not use ?

Don't hack all the subtitles out, though - I'm assuming you don't speak Elvish !

[zleepy]

I'd put it on 2 discs and the xtras on a 3rd disc with your Dshrink.
You can have a working menu by using VobBlanker

[Darth Paris]

I can get FOFTR up to 61% w/ no menu, english subs and 2 channel audio . I notice in full disk mode there are 2 subtitles for english. One is 11MB the other says 0MB. Is the 11 MB the closed caption and the 0MB hust the elvish to English stuff? In the reauthor mode it only lets you keep the 11 MB subs.

61% aint great so I would just split the thing up onto two disks.

[iantri]

In the Canadian (Alliance-Atlantis) release, at least, the English subs for spoken Elvish are burnt-in.

[Gurm]

If I _had_ to put LOTR onto one disc, I'd probably do something drastic like drop the resolution to 352x480, or even just re-encode it to 720x480 without the anamorphic. Seriously. The SVCD looks VERY GOOD (on a regular screen, no large screens of course) at 480x480, and I'd rather drop the resolution than suffer from macroblocking and artifacting.

But I wouldn't. I'd put it on two discs.

[yoda313]

Hello,

I was able to get LOTR Fellowship Extended down to 1 4.37gb folder. I didn't burn it but the test worked. It was pretty decent. I don't remember what the compression was though.

I got rid of EVERYTHING except the stereo track (5.1 was too large, don't even try the DTS if you want 1 disc). This was without recompressing it. My computer is too slow (amd 850mhz) to try it. Besides, 2 discs for the real set isn't that bad. Just pop in the new one or buy a 5 disc dvd changer and forget about it.

Kevin

[jyn999]

I backed up my copies (with the menus, extras and AC3 soundtrack) of the LOTR trilogy using DVD Rebuilder. I only have an 15 year old 27" SONY but the quality is still impressive even after the 50-60% compression that DVDRB used. Still saving for my 43" Panasonic DLP TV.

[iantri]

FYI, if you recompress down to 352x480 (say, with DVD Rebuilder), technically anamorphic video is not supposed to be supported, so it may not work in your DVD player. Only anamorphic 720x480 is in the spec.

[Gurm]

Right right. I'm still a bit unclear on how the "extra" anamorphic information is encoded into the video in the first place, nevermind how to lose it.

- Gurm

[iantri]

The image is encoded 'stretched' vertically (as opposed to having black bars in the image) which is resized down to 1.78:1 (on a regular TV) or shown at full width on an HDTV. There is a flag in the IFO that indicates this.

Because the full vertical resolution of the image is being used, higher quality is gained on HDTV sets and sets with an anamorphic squeeze button.

[Gurm]

Ah ok. Well at any rate, you could just "unstretch" it... use a good re-encoder to reduce the vertical resolution and re-add the black bars.