when ripping a DVD, how much room does a 5.1 track take up ?

[Athlon]

i recently ripped a movie that was 5gb, after i dumped the French, Spanish, and German 5.1 audio tracks, the movie was 4gb, and i got wondering, how much room do subtitles and audio tracks acctually take up ??

it was the first time i had ever just ripped the movie and dumped the redundant soundtracks, and it played on my standalone..

well happy

[Bulten]

Well...
It depends on what bitrate you use (of course).
Most Dolby Digital 5.1 files uses bitrates of 384 kbit/sec or 448 kbit/sec. DTS files are much bigger though (bitrate 1536 kbit/sec), so the size depends on the bitrate factors. Most likely 1 hour of dolby digital 384 kbit/sec may be something like 140 mbytes of size(I haven't calculated it exactly). You could also extract an ac3-file from one vob-file to check the actual size of it. download a vobtrailer and use TMPGEnc...