hopw to join and compress files?

[3390]

i have burned some homevideos from my digital camcorder with a pioneer standalone dvd recorder. instead of having these videos on separate dvds, i ripped them to my hdd and was trying to find a way to compress these files and join them into one dvd. i have approx 11gb of vob files (plus, i need to make menu, etc). is there any way of compressing it and burning it as one dvd on a dvd-r?

[Baldrick]

join
https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=284279
then shrink with for example dvd shrink.

[redwudz]

If you just wanted to compress them, you would need to re-encode them to a lower bitrate.

Or you could try dropping them into TDA if they are all the same format. You would have to author a 'out of spec' DVD and save that to your hard drive. Then you could run it through DVD Shrink to reduce the size.

I think the quality might be pretty poor, though. Maybe a dual layer disc, or multiple DVDs?

[3390]

like i said, they were burned from my camcorder onto dvds with a pioneer standalone dvd recorder. and it was ripped to my hdd later. i have all the ifo, vob, and all other files. when i calculated all the needed vob files, they came out to be approx 11gb.

what i want to do is join and compress them so that i can (hopefully) fit it all on 1 dvd-r with menu. the quality might be poor, but i want to see how poor is the quality before deciding is this what i wanna do. i remember setting the standalone dvd recorder to do 6 hours and the quality wasn't bad. if i put this 1gb of vob files (which is approx 6 hrs) onto 1 dvd-r, would the quality be the same as that from a standalone dvd recorder or would the quality be much more poor?

what would be the best softwares to use and anyone have any guides/steps in which i can use? thanks!

[mats.hogberg]

6 hrs on a DVD would be VCD-ish. You'd better reencode to VCD resolution - full D1 at that low bitrate will look awful.
If you still want to go ahead, I'd go the route with TDA (which can read DVD files as source) and then shrink the result down to size.

/Mats

[mattso]

If I understand you correctly, just import them into DVDShrink & let it transcode the lot down to 4.3GB (with high quality settings). Then, author your menus. I like DVDAuthorGUI for its streamlined ease of use.

You could have done all this on the Pioneer's HDD, though. Just use the "Copy - HDD to DVD" function, select your titlesets, edit each one if necessary, add chapter points, select thumbnails, pick a menu template, and burn to disk. It will automatically transcode your 10GB files down to fit a 4.3GB disk.