Maximum percentage to "shrink" with DVDShrink?

[ChaunceyK]

How low can I go with DVDShrink with the video quality still looking good?

Or, to put it another way, what's the lowest percentage you've shrunk & still had it look good?

[ROF]

Anything below 89% is not worth it for me. Especially with dual layer being so cheap.

[ChaunceyK]

Verbatim Dual-Layer at around $3 each (US) sound right? I've been out of the loop for awhile, so I'm assuming Verbatim is still top-of-the-line...and a 20-pack at Best Buy for $59 is the best I can find locally. Any tips?

Thank you.

[SingSing]

Hi, SAM. DVDshrink has two types of output quality. Without deep analysis you max out at about 90%, with deep analysis you can push to about 60%. Example : Put the entire star wars 3 on one DVDR.

[dfisher052]

I've gone as low as 60% with no noticable loss in quality.

[j1d10t]

what's the lowest percentage you've shrunk & still had it look good?

"Good" is in the eye of the beholder
What looks "good" to one person might look awful to another. Or one compression level that looks really good for one movie might look like crap for the next.

A lot of of it depends on the level of compression/quality of the original. Then you have to take in to account what size screen you will be watching it on - the larger the screen the more likely you are to notice compression artifacts.

So...... to each his own

For me personally, I've never gone below 80%.

I suggest you do a test - take your movie and try several different compression levels then burn them to a +/- RW and see what you can live with.

[danzeb]

It's depends on your requirements. Anything less than 100% will not be perfect on a large screen tv. I've gone to 54% and it was ok on my 31 inch TV. It wasn't perfect of course but good enough for me. I've put a double DVD set of a concert onto a single DVD. It was at about 48% and I thought it was ok because the audio quality was most important to me.

[xobituaryx]

depends how long the movie is. if its only 1 hour and 15 min, then 60 % is gonna look like crap. But if it's a 2 hour 30 min movie, then 60 % is acceptable. Does this make sense to anyone else?

[lordsmurf]

Raw % numbers are meaningless.
Unless you know % of what, this is a wasted conversation.

For example:
(A) 99% shrink of a car race with low bitrate, from homemade recorded DVD = horrible crap
(B) 50% shrink of a superbit DVD release of something that has only mild action = perfect, indistuingishable quality

If you don't know the source, then all % numbers are literally pulled from the ass.

[SCDVD]

Lord Smurf, I like the way you sort the fly shit from the pepper. You can bring a blow-hard to their knees in just three or four sentences.

[ChaunceyK]

So I guess what this all comes down to is:

Give it a shot on a r/w first & see how it turns out...lol.

[andersonmilltexas]

I did 39% of a 1970's sitcom. Looked ok to me on a 36 inch set.

[cyflyer]

"Good" is in the eye of the beholder
What looks "good" to one person might look awful to another. Or one compression level that looks really good for one movie might look like crap for the next.

A lot of of it depends on the level of compression/quality of the original. Then you have to take in to account what size screen you will be watching it on - the larger the screen the more likely you are to notice compression artifacts.

You said it perfectly. Also Lordsmurf point is very valid.
Personally, i've had stuff down to 60% with little noticable difference.

[nelson133]

My experience in the same as above, it depends. If you use all the tools in Shrink and your source is good, 60% or lower can be pretty good. Cartoons/anime can handle 50%, but low quality stuff gets real bad real fast with much compression. Nyah Levi

[lenti_75]

the bottom line is this

60-70% OK ?

[Subhash]

Anything below 89% is not worth it for me. Especially with dual layer being so cheap.

Well, I have bought DVD-R's and DVD+R's at about 25 cents each. Compared to that, a Dual Layer is about $3 which is 12 times more expensive. I wouldn't call it cheap. I would rather put it on two DVD's at a total cost of 50 cents and save $2.50 on each burn.

Btw, on one of the DVD's that I have created from my Digital Camcorder that contains about 2 Hours 5 minutes of movie, DVD Shrink wouldn't let me go below 46.8%. I don't how it comes to that percentage but when I choose custom ratio, the slider starts at 46.8% only. Any one can explain that ?