Transcode a MPEG2-file

[sahu]

Hello All

Is it possible to transcode a to large MPEG2-file (forex. 5.5 Gb, DVD-compatible) to a smaller one (forex. 4.1 GB, DVD-compatible) ?
What SW do I use?

The transcode-SW I have seen are only working on TS-files and not direct on MPEG2-files?????

(I am not interested in cutting the large MPEG2-file, not convert it to TS-files and only interested in the MPEG2-solution)

[FT Shark]

TMPGEnc will re-encode it for you. All you need to do is set the bitrate correctly. You should be able to find a bitrate calculator on this site.

[sahu]

Thanks but....

Transcoding goes quite quickly.
Re-encoding with TMPG-encoder, does that take along time (hours?)

[ImaWeTodd]

Why don't you author it with ifoedit. Then you could use dvdshrink,xcopy,etc. Pull the files back out with vobedit. These xtra steps probably would add 1/2 hour to the transcode time.

Rempeg will transcode an mpeg. It is probably slower than doing a reencode with TMPGEnc.

[andkiich]

You can transcode with DVDShrink. Use the newest version.

[ImaWeTodd]

You can transcode with DVDShrink. Use the newest version.

It will take an mpeg file as input? If I read this right, that's what sahu has.