Newbie Please Help (compress Mpg Movie

[MidNightLady_32]

I have Riped A dvd an it saved the movie as a Mpg but the problem is when i went to burn it with nero it too huge iam trying to get the whole movie on too a 700mb disk i don;t want too cut it too two disk
dose any one know how i can compress this movie too fit on to a 700mb disk? Iam very new too all this

[macleod]

best bet is to redo the movie. My questions would be what application did you use to rip and then convert. If you are planning on putting the mpeg as a VCD/CVD/SVCD or what????? If it is one of those, the size is actually 800 meg. How far over the 800 number are you?????

[jbenj01]

Well, if you want the easiest/convenient method with 'decent' quality, use DVDShrink. <---- Look just to the left on this page under HOW TO>GUIDES and do a search on DVDShrink.. just follow the guide that makes most sense to you.

Also, I strongly suggest you buy some blank DVD-R media, which holds ~4.37Gb of video/audio data (MPEG2). Putting the finished DVDShrink product onto a 700MB CD-R won't work.. You'd have to convert the MPEG2 files (DVD-compliant) to MPEG1 files (VCD and... SVCD??), which would most likely comprise video quality even more than already with DVDShrink...

Do a little reading up on this stuff b/c people might come out and start ripping on you for asking such a basic questions. good luck and ask if you've any more questions (after reading up a little, that is.. .

[MidNightLady_32]

thanks guys for the replys after i posted the question i did manage to find out a bit more info like i said iam new to this may be i should just wait an get a dvd burner ...