2 hour movie too big for Shrink

[dkelly701]

I ran across something new for me. I had a movie that is 2 hours and 5 minutes long. According to DVDShrink it is 6,623 mb uncompressed. When I set compression to automatic the move is still 4,560 mb at 49.5% compression, still too big for backup accoring to Shrink. I backed it up using TMPGEnc. This is on a commercial DVD. Has anyone else seen a commercial DVD with a 2 hour movie too big for Shrink to compress?

[redwudz]

You can run the video file through Shrink a second time to reduce the size. Of course with that high of compression, quality will suffer.

If you want the best quality, then split it into two DVDs.

Using TMPGEnc instead will definitely give you better quality than very high compression using Shrink. It depends on what you are happy with.

[kickbxn5]

Delete the excess stuff you don't need (multilanguages, etc)

I did that and got The Godfather on 1 dvd

[dkelly701]

I reauthored and this was the movie and soundtrack, nothing else. No extra languages, subtitles, bonus features, etc. This was a concert DVD and it did have an extra soundtrack called DTS 5 channel. I assume this is digital. It was 690 mb uncompressed. If I deleted this I could shrink the movie at 64% and it would fit. Still pretty large.

[guns1inger]

DVD Rebuilder with CCE Basic

[drjtech]

If it is a concert DVD then the first audio track is probably LPCM.

Take a look at the following guide:

How to replace LPCM by AC3 before shrinking a DVD

-drj

[idsane]

I am having the same problem with a concert DVD, although it does not have a LPCM track, just 5.1 . Nero Recode will only compress it to ~60%, which makes the final space to 4673 MB . I have had Nero compress DVDs further than this, ~50%, so why can't Recode do this now?

[SCDVD]

I have had this problem too. I found that if I deselect the excess stuff such as other languages, extra sound formats etc., it works fine after that. I suspect that when Shrink calculates the compression that is required, that it doesn't take into account the extras.

[idsane]

I have taken out all the extras and I still can't get Recode to fit it all on a single disk. Are there any options I can change?

[guns1inger]

There is a limit to what it can do, hence the earlier suggest to run it through twice. Either that, ot try a different product (eg. DVD Rebuilder with CCE)

[gll99]

I only had that problem once with an older version of dvdshrink and I had not done a deep analysis. So I ran it a second time on the output.

I always run deep analysis now and it's never happened again. Can't say that's the solution but if you didn't do that it would be worth a try.

btw) I usually set my menus and extras manually to a lower setting than automatic.