DVD DL to DVD-r

[The14thGOD]

okay i have a friend that says he can put a dual layer dvd disc onto a single dvd-r disc using Clone CD 2 (maybe Clone DVD 2, did not catch it but i know it is one of these). my first impression was yes you can if you remove the speical features etc. or reduce the quality of the video(s) on the dvd. i told him this and he said "no it compresses it down into one disc"

i believe that this is not possible, am i wrong or is my friend wrong?
if so give me some "technical" terms that i can throw at him and shoot him down =P

[canadateck]

"compresses" That he said.

means reduce quality. somthing has to be compressed/Re-encoded/ cant fit a 8gig DVD onto a 4gig without doing so. Uless you just copy the movie and it fits onto a 4gig DVD.

You are both right,But I think he doesnt seem to understand that when you "compress"/Re-encode/transcode somthing there is a quality loss,somtimes you may not notice it,other times you will.

[waheed]

The official and correct term is "transcoding" but some people do use "compressing" which is fine.

A 7-8GB DVD would need to be transcoded to fir on a 4.37GB DVDR.

The size of the movie varies with each movie. Some DL movies just need the extras/bonus stripping out (use VOBblanker or TitleSetBlanker) and will fit on a dvdr without transcoding. Some will need the additional transcoding.

With trancoding, you will certainly sacrifice some quality, this is inevitable.

[Gurm]

Actually the correct term would be "transcoding in the compressed domain" or some nonsense like that. LOL.

[The14thGOD]

oh, alright thanks

i talked to some guy who works for Geek Squad, and he siad that he uses dvd shrink to put it onto one disc, im assuming that is "transcoding in the compressed domain" =P or "transcoding" or "compresses" ^_^

[waheed]

Yep, DVD Shrink is the most popular freeware to compressing a dvd to fit on a dvdr.