DVD Shrink Compression %

[jccruit]

First let me say that I realize video quality is very subjective but I am just trying to get a feel for the minimum compression % that users feel provides acceptable quality. My experience is that anything less than 60% is not acceptable DVD quality. At that level I will use DVD Fab or some other program to split the video to 2 discs. What is your experience? If we knew the minimum acceptable compression or even a range of compression it could save a lot of time since it would not be necessary to run DVD Shrink to check the output. Any thoughts on this subject?

[sammie]

Like you said it's subjective. I tend not to use DVDShrink to compress. I use it more to re-author (like DVD-FAB). I'm not happy with it's compression beyond the first 1 or 2 selections (forget the exact percentage). I use DVD2one to shrink. No hard and fast rule on how much I'll shrink something. I start getting leary with anything more than about 2:15. Anything more than about 2:30 I just go ahead and split. 2:15 - 2:30 I shrink then do a trial burn on a RW and see how I like it. If it's ok, I copy the RW, if not I go back and split.

[tompika]

I made a 10GB(two main movies @40%) to DVDR with DVDShrink 3 + DeepAnalysis
just to see what it looks like. Came out like a SVCD quality.
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=629706&highlight=#629706