DVDShrink Vs "AutoFit" button

[Azza_b]

Hi all, just wondered if someone could explain (very basically of course) the difference between using the DVDShrink option as opposed to clicking on the AutoFit option ?

Do they do completely different things, or is it just that DVDShrink is setup to handle this kind of operation...

Thanks,

Azza_b

[Jikchung]

"Autofit" is meant to result in a standard single layer DVD size, but (for many file related reasons) this doesn't always happen. Shrink is meant to take over on a slightly oversize result and give you a burnable file size.

[Azza_b]

Reading the above makes me assume they do the same thing then... Autofit makes sure the resulting file size is always burnable to a single layer dvd, Shrink does the same ?

Clicking Autofit has ALWAYS resulted in a burnable standard single layer dvd...for me..

Azza_b

[Jikchung]

They do the same thing, but for different reasons and by a different process.

I also have never needed to use the Shrink step, but I'm glad it's there.

[cannew]

With dvd's costing so little I prefer to check the DL to create a larger file. Then if necessary I split the movie onto two disks with Shrink. Believe the quality of the picture is better.

[bobarnett]

I have been using HDTV2DVD (on a single movie) and the AutoFit button works great. I just got S2D because I wanted the option of putting more than one movie on a disk but after adding two mpg movies (assets) the size ends up being about 5GB and the AutoFit button is still grayed out. Shouldn't AutoFit be available in this situation.

[bobarnett]

I have found out that for some reason SVCD2DVD doesn't seem to want to AutoFit MPGs. I put together the same project but used TS files instead and the AutoFit was able to do it's thing.

[ChrissyBoy]

Normal (Progran Stream) mpegs are not reencoded so the autofit function is not applicable. HDTV mpegs (Transport streams) are reencoded and so the autofit function IS available.

[bobarnett]

Thanks for the explanation.