compress a ripped DVD for later use.

[sammy7]

Ok,

Here is what I wanna do, I currently have a collectoin of DVD's, that I want to back up on my HDD, I dont want to watch them when on the HDD, and also want to save disk space.

So my question is, how do I squeez a ripped DVD to the max, to save Hard disk space, and when I need to put them on a DVD disk, re"unpack" for burning to DVD-R, without loosing image quality when unpacked?

[lafjax]

After ripping them to your HD how about trying WinZip and see how much reduction you can get...

[jimmalenko]

Wishful thinking my friend. A DVD is already compressed pretty heavily to enable the quality that they provide. Because the files are already compressed, winzip and winrar will not be able to compress them much.

[grossjamesh]

Try using WINZIP to zip(compress) the files till needed.
When needed simply unzip(de-compress) the file.

[Sifaga]

Buy more harddrives

[sacajaweeda]

Norton Ghost can compress a 4-5gb partition to an image that will fit on a CDr.

I don't know how good it works with compressed video files on a partition though.

[Baldrick]

Norton Ghost can compress a 4-5gb partition to an image that will fit on a CDr.

I don't know how good it works with compressed video files on a partition though.

It wont work good with video files...the only way to reduce the size a lot is to reconvert to another video format(=reducing video qualiy).

[sacajaweeda]

I didn't figure it would because the video is already compressed, but then I never tried. Does a hell of a job compressing the hell outta regular data though.

[andyp1]

Why not convert the films to AVI - something like Xvid