dvd shrink wont auto compress a dvd? get a cyclic redundancy

[wyteone]

okay so i've read some posts on cyclic redundancy checks so i used dvd fab to rip the dvd to my harddisk and that worked i have all the files on disc now but... i still have problems with dvd shrink... the program still won't auto shrink the files below 4gigs? it stays at the 6.5gigs. so basically i can't get the dvd files to auto shrink.
so is there any other way to make dvd files compress onto dvd layer 5 discs?

[redwudz]

Have you tried running it trough a second time? Got rid of all the extras?

[wyteone]

theres no extras... its an asian dvd with like 11 26min episodes, and yea dont ask me how they fit 11episodes on there... its a layer9 dvd thou dont know if that makes a difference.
but yea i've tried numberous things but to no avail!
in the end i jus reauthored the dvd into 2 separate dvds.

[ebenton]

I own a couple of DVDs that DVD Shrink cannot compress below about 50%. One of them that I remember recently was "The Concert for New York City" Disk 1. I had to use a DL DVD and tell Shrink that I was using a DL or DVD-9. Then I turned off compression. Worked great using Nero to burn automatically from Shrink.

[laspis59]

The DVDFab software seems to have problems producing IFO's.They are being reported as corrupt.
Could this be the culprit?

[whitejremiah]

well, here's what i would recommend doing, rip it to the harddrive uncompressed using dvdshrink...then use ratdvd at the highest settings it has, then set ratdvd to output dvd files at dvd-5 filesize, i know its not THE best way to do it by any means, but its the only way i have come up with so far....

[BJ_M]

3 hours of video uncompressed is going to take a hell of a lot of room .. i doubt you really mean that ..

that method would yield some pretty crappy results compared to other methods - the best being , use two disks

[gll99]

like redwudz said

Have you tried running it trough a second time

I did that for one disc that needed just a bit more compression and it worked fine. In your case the split solution was probably better because another 35% or so would have likely looked pretty bad. You could still try it for fun if you have some RW discs to test it with.

[redwudz]

wyteone's last post said his DVD was 11 26min episodes. That comes out to 4.7+ hours. That may be why it won't compress. It's already compressed heavily. He likely made the right choice splitting it to two DVD's.

[the * dude]

ummm... 5hrs on a sl-dvd..at rate 1803!!!!.... nooop.. :P
almost 50% they prob FS too!!! **asuming 224 audio??
you gota re-encoded !!!!! or split onto 2 discs.... it you ain't got the time split it 8)

maybe if your luck the audio is in ~pcm.. then there is hope!