Got to love the Rat

[Darkcast]

RatDVD takes a full featured DVD movie and puts it into a highly compressed .ratDVD container format file - while preserving all the features of the original DVD such as:

* Full anamorphic picture, seamless branching, multiple video angles, multiple audio channels, subpictures, etc.
* Keep movie versions (Directors Cut, Theatrical version, etc.), Alternate story endings, making of, video commentary , cut scenes, etc..
* Keep complete menus, navigation and features
* Reliable high quality, valid check-summed container.

Afterdawn.com says:
Would you like to be able to compress an entire 9GB DVD to 1 single file about 1GB-3GB (depending on the DVD and your settings) in size, keeping menus, bonus features, multiple audio and subtitle tracks as well as video Angles? Well students from the university of Aarhus, Danmark and St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University ”LETI”, Russia yesterday released a new Compression format specifically geared towards the compression of complete DVDs without loss of any features or noticeable quality called ratDVD.



RatDVD is free, I put this up to spread the word. Download it here or from any of the mirrors on the site, doesn't really matter since it's such a small file.

Don't forget to check out the site:
http://www.ratdvd.dk/
http://forums.afterdawn.com/forum_view.cfm/155
http://club.cdfreaks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=108

[reboot]

RatDVD takes a full featured DVD movie and puts it into a highly compressed .ratDVD container format file

And what good is that, except for storage on the hard drive...
Can one then uncompress it to burn later?

[jimmalenko]

Can one then uncompress it to burn later?

Yep. I've already taken a look at it (seems Darkcast is a couple of weeks behind ). Couldn't get the compressed version to play in WMP 10 though

[Baldrick]

it is not a dvd authoring tool. moving you.

[waheed]

Can one then uncompress it to burn later?

Can be uncompressed again, but unfortunately, as a result of compression, you've lost quality that cant be gained back.