Problems with DVDshrink

[Shinigami77]

Hello,

Merry Christmas and please help me!! I just recently downloaded some Avi files. The files are fine and I'm burning them to DVD. Ok so here's what I'm doing, I'm using WINAVI and converting them to DVD format. Then I'm using DVDshrink to compress it and it automaticaly burns with DVD decrypter. The problem I'm having is when it encodes with DVDshrink I'm getting the error message that it needs to close down. It does it right when it's finished encoding. Sometimes the error comes up and it still switches to the burning process and the DVD's work. But now it's not letting me get that far. I'm burning anime and the episodes are like 24min long, i'm putting 6 on each DVD. Please if you know what I'm doing wrong let me know and if you need anymore specifics let me know what info you need exactly. Thank you for your time.

Josh~

[redwudz]

I would try another converter program other than WinAVI. It seems to have a lot of problems with consistency. ConvertXToDVD is a lot more popular and seems to work well. You might want to check the output of WinAVI as the problem is more likely there than Shrink.

DVD Shrink is a transcoder, not an encoder. It just throws out frames it doesn't think you will need. That works fine with a 7GB DVD, but not so well with an encoded file that doesn't have so many frames to spare.

Why not just make the DVD file the proper size in the first place? Or use a standalone encoder and authoring program if you want the best quality? We have bitrate calculators to set the bitrate for a MPEG file. Just input the the total running time of your videos and the desired size and use that bitrate to encode with. Then you just author and burn.

There are freeware encoders and authoring programs that will do much better than WinAVI, or ConvertX. HC or Quenc for encoding and GUI for dvdauthor and DVDAuthorgui.

And welcome to our forums.

[Shinigami77]

Redwudz,

Thanks alot for your help I'm going to try Convertx. I'm still a real noob at burning DVD's so I don't know about authoring programs and that stuff. I tried making DVD menu's with a tutorial and DVDlab and still couldn't figure it out

Josh~