Shrinking an MPEG2 Media File for burning onto DVD

[niki_billy]

Hello,

I have two MPEG2 files that i had encoded using TMPGEnc, so their about two gigabytes each, i want to shrink each of the mpeg's so they fit on a 4.7 Gb dvd+r disc....

At the moment TMPGEnc cannot author the two mpeg's as they go over the exceeded limit by approx. 4500(mb i presume).

So which software should i use to shrink the media files?

And how easy is it to actually shrink the media files?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

[jimmalenko]

So ...... how big is each file again ?



You really should be encoding them to the correct size in the first instance (hint: choose the right bitrate). If you insist on shrinking these current files, Rejig can transcode MPEG-2 directly, and I have written a guide in the Guides section that tells you all about it. Another alternative is to author oversize anyway, and then use a transcoder like DVDShrink, DVD2One, Shrinkto5, CloneDVD etc etc to pull it back down to size.