how to replace a Vob?

[kita]

Here's the deal. I have a DVD where, if I cut out all the junk, it almost fits onto a single DVD+R. So I want to take one of the videos, re-encode it down a few megs, then bring it back in to replace the old vob.

I know DVDReMake is supposed to be able to do this, but the demo won't let you export so how can you tell if it works? (Kinda dumb, I thought. Better ways to do trial versions)

There must be at least one other program out there or some other way to do this.

Any suggestions?

[joe bananas]

Why not use DVDShrink. You can 'cut out all the junk' & if it still wont fit you can then compress it.

You can also compress some sections more than others if desired.

[kita]

I thought of that. But when I played the new disc with winDVD after using shrink, it looked terrible, heavy pixellation. So I tried taking the one video I wanted to compress, and I made it into mpeg1 with tmpgenc and it looked much better. I don't know why the difference, but shrink won't work for this one.

I also tried InstantCopy, but for some reason it couldn't shrink the filesize enough. There must be something unique about the video. (already compressed to max?) I don't know.

[duhmez]

terrible? Heavy pixelisation? From a disk that was almost small enough to fit already?

cmon, you exaggerate. if you are shrinking in the 90+% range youd be hard pressed to find any difference.....

[FOO]

Something seriously wrong if MPEG1 does better.

Did you shrink to 10% or 90%
The meaning of that changed somewhere

[kita]

Well, maybe I should clarify for all the DVDShrink fans out there.

InstantCopy has some file size issues as many people know. I first made a copy of the disk using InstantCopy, to cut out all the extras and to shrink down what I wanted to keep. The result disk was about 90 megs too big for a DVD+R.

So I tried to use DVDShrink to compress the one file again to try to shave off the extra 90. Shrink was probably magnifying a blocky encode by IC (first encode was 30%). I don't know why the mpg1 looks better. Isn't DVDShrink a "realtime" encoder or something like that? And the lower resolution probably blurs out the edges, but trust me, it does look a lot better.

so anyway, that's why I don't want to use shrink and I want to find a way to use the new mpg1.

I already made it into a VOB, now I just need to figure out how to stick it in there.