what's the smallest i can compress to????

[eigna]

i know that i've been told if compressing at 4444 doesn't work for me that i should try 4400... well that got me thinking - how small can you compress something?? like not to burn on a disk, but say for viewing on the computer itself - i wouldn't need the quality to be top notch, but decent nonetheless... thanks

-angie

[Mark V]

I think the more you compress it the worse of a picture you will get.

Mark V

[terryj]

angie,
probably the lowest you would want to shoot for would be
a trade off of storage space versus file compability.
For instance if you are only wanting to store and fit several movie only rips to say >10GB, you could use QT Pro to
re-save the VOBS as QT movies using the 3ivx codec into smaller QT movies with great quality --and save space.
However, then you would have to re-author up to go
back to DVD.

[galactica]

ive gone as low as 2222 so that i joined 2 movies for total of 4444 and it looked "ok"

[eigna]

ive gone as low as 2222 so that i joined 2 movies for total of 4444 and it looked "ok"

really?? that's good to know... cuz that's pretty small - what's that, a little over 2G?? then i might even try smaller, just to see how it is... i was just wondering incase i wanted to keep a movie or two on my laptop (without taking up massive space). -thanks!!

-angie

[thoughton]

We did an experiment on this a while back with Terminator 3. Several of us found that no matter what you set the output size to, the lowest it would go was about 1.8gig.

(However you could shrink it further by running it through dvd2oneX one more time, using the 1.8gig as source)

[WiseWeasel]

Or you could shrink it even further by throwing it in the Trash and emptying it, and then never bringing up that stinking excuse for product placement ever again...

[ykz]

ive gone as low as 2222 so that i joined 2 movies for total of 4444 and it looked "ok"

i had good results using ffmpeg to reencode some of my dvd-movies (fitting shaft 1 - 3 (16/9) on one dvd with good results). of course you need an app like sizzle to re-author the whole stuff.

[eigna]

i tried a bunch of different numbers and, in my opinion, 2200 was the lowest i could go and still get a good quality pic - 2.1G, which isn't too bad to keep a movie or two at a time on the laptop to occupy me from time to time...

-ang