any way to reencode menus only? or better way than dvdshrink

[tsantsa]

I want to backup Memento but the menu on that thing is quite large, 951 MB to be exact. I was going to use dvdrebuilder with cce to reencode the flick but rebuilder doesnt support reencoding the menu just yet.

I know I can use dvdshrink to transcode the menu and leave the rest of the movie untouched and then move on the dvd-rb. But the quality of shrink really sucks compated to cce and I don't want that huge of a difference.

Another option is using NuMenu4U, but I don't have Scenarist and that proggy seems like it takes a bit of work to learn how to use it correctly.

Does anyone know what another option is?

[guns1inger]

Have you tried Shrink 3.2 with AEC ? The quality, while still not CCE, is substantially improved over the older versions. Given the size of the menu, you aren't going to get it much smaller than 500MB without doing a lot of damage, and this is still a hefty chunk out of the movie. If it was me, I'd ditch a menu that large - it's not worth it.

[tsantsa]

Have you seen the memento menu? If you have, then you know why i'd like to keep it. If you havent, then suffice to say that it may be the single coolest menu on the block.

Whats AEC in dvdshrink?

[guns1inger]

AEC is a new enhacement feature to the transcoding that improves quality substantially over the older versions of Shrink. You need DVD Shrink 3.2.x to get it.

The menu may be cool, but is it worth 10% (or more) of your movie space ?

[ddlooping]

Hi.

tsantsa, why don't you make two backups?

A movie-only one, and a full-disc one.
When you fancy watching the movie, play the 1st backup.
When you fancy watching/playing with the menu, use the 2nd.

On a serious note, how much would the movie have to be compressed by if you did a full-disc backup?

[pg55555]

tsantsa

Look at your menu structure. Sometimes it is composed by more than one menus, one for each language.

If so, you have two options:
- Strip the unneeded menus (the languages you do not need) using IFOEdit (look for the guides for how)
- Compress with Shrink to the maximun the unneede menus, set the menu you want to keek to No compression or above 80% to keep the quality. You can do this step twice to get the maximum compression for the unneeded menu