Question about DVD Shrink

[DoctorStopMo]

Hello, I have about three hours of footage I want to put onto a DVD. I used VSO DivXtoDVD to make the VIDEO_TS folder, but the file size is 5.2GB, well above the 4.7GB maximum that I must work with. I considered changing the audio bitrate, but I think this makes the sound play too slow for the video footage that I have recorded. Someone mentioned that DVDShrink could help make it fit. Can someone please tell me if it is possible using DVDShrink, and if so, how? I am totally lost and don't want to screw anything up . Any help at all would be greatly appreciated . Thank you in advance!

[jimmalenko]

Certainly possible with DVDShrink - it's no different to a DVD9 really. Open DVDShrink. Click "Open Files" and point it to your VIDEO_TS folder. By default it should adjust your compression levels and everything for you automatically. Click "Backup!", and configure your settings. This won't alter the "source" directory you feed into it in any way.

[DoctorStopMo]

Hey, thanks a lot for your help . I appreciate it!

[guns1inger]

Changing the audio bitrate does not affect the speed at which it plays back, only the quality of the track. DivxtoDVD creates 192 stereo AC3, which is about as low as you would want to go unless it is only spoken audio.

[Nilfennasion]

but the file size is 5.2GB, well above the 4.7GB maximum

Actually, the maximum for DVD is 4.35GB or thereabouts. The DVD consortium, in yet another display of how customer-oriented they are, never figured that people would be putting things from their computer onto a DVD. Consequently, a gigabyte to a computer is a different thing to a gigabyte to the DVD consortium. This is mainly because the DVD consortium decided that 1000MB is a gig, so they could inflate disc sizes.

[rkr1958]

Actually, the maximum for DVD is 4.35GB or thereabouts. The DVD consortium, in yet another display of how customer-oriented they are, never figured that people would be putting things from their computer onto a DVD. Consequently, a gigabyte to a computer is a different thing to a gigabyte to the DVD consortium. This is mainly because the DVD consortium decided that 1000MB is a gig, so they could inflate disc sizes.

But just think how much fun posting the equation:

4,700,000,000 Bytes x 1 KB/1024 Bytes x 1 MB/1024 KB x 1 GB/1024 MB = 4.377 GigaByes

is ... over ... and over again.

[Nilfennasion]

Just think how much easier it would be if both the Consortium and the +RW alliance were to get off their lazy butts, admit the mistake they made, and correct it. This idioicy is actually starting to transfer over to other electronics manufacturers, too, sadly. Just today, I saw a box for an external harddrive that claimed one gigabyte was 1,000,000,000 bytes or something like that. I could have cheerfully shot the bastard who printed that box.