Shrinking a mpeg file

[cajun_junky]

I have searched the forum for a couple of days now and can't find a useful answer to my problem.

Ok I captured a couple of movies off of the SciFi channel as transport streams (.ts files). I then converted to mpeg using HDTV to MPEG program. The mpeg files play fine in PowerDVD.

There were 2 parts to the show totalling 4 hours (about 12 Gb). I want to compress both parts to fit one dvd. I have tried to load the mpeg file into TMPGenc but it doesn't recognize the audio..only the video. I tried using ReJig but that only gave me a m2v file.

Any idea how to simply compress or reduce in size the mpeg file??

Thanks in advance!

[Soopafresh]

So, you used HDTVtoMPEG2.exe to convert the TS file to Mpg, and you could play it back, video and audio? If so, that's good.

If you want to make it easy on yourself, just use VSO DivXtoDVD which will create a DVD compatible series of files. The app is free and very fast. It works quite well for this function. Four hours of video on a single DVD is going to be kind of tight, but it might turn out OK.

If that doesn't cut it for you, just do two hours onto 2 DVDs.

[cajun_junky]

Thanks for the suggestion, I will give it a try this evening. It looks like it will take a single ts file. The movie was two parts and therefore 2 ts files. So I may have to play around with it. I could convert each ts file into vob files then remaster the vob files together somehow.

It would be simple to put the movie on 2 dvds and dvds are cheap but I didn't see any point since this is not a high quality movie anyway. Heck SciFi is not even digital so the size of the movie is overkill for the lower quality.

It is alot of trouble but I like to tinker with this kind of stuff and it is a learning experience for me as well.

Thanks again!

After more research it does look like it will take multiple files...I just haven't figured out how to do it yet.