DVD Compression help!

[just1ncase]

Hello,

I am having trouble backing up a copy of "The Office UK Version." I ripped the DVD through DVDFab Decryptor and DVDDecryptor, but I am having difficulty compressing the files to fit onto a DVD5 (4.7GB). I am using DVDShrink to compress the files and burn, but it's only compressing up to 57.7%, which isn't enough to fit onto a DVD5. Also, I can't disable any audio streams since all of them are English ("LPCM 2-ch Unspecified & AC3 2-ch English).

Is there any way I can compress the files any further in DVD Shrink? Is there any other DVD compression programs that are going to be useful to solve my problem? Please let me know, thanks.

[BobK]

Compress them in DVD Shrink, then load the compressed files into Shrink and do it again. The quality will be significantly lower than the original, but it will fit on one disk.

[guns1inger]

Split the disc, rather than butcher the quality.

Either than, or use DVD Rebuilder Pro to re-encode at half-D1. (Note: The Pro version allows you to set half-d1 on any title, the standard free version doesn't, and has problems on epidsodic discs)

[aedipuss]

at anything over 10% reduction there is visable video degradation with shrink. it really needs a 9 or 10 pass cce re-encode at 50% compression to re-allocate the remaining bits to the proper places and remain watchable. my opinion only of course. and i'd only keep the ac-3 audio for space saving.

[guns1inger]

I'd settle for 3 - 4 psses. I have yet to see any visible improvement from 9 - 10 passes over 3 - 4 passes. (By visible I don't mean show me a bitrate viewer output showing smoother distribution, I mean on the actual image itself)

[whitejremiah]

i will say this though, guns1inger.....its a rather more extreme case, but i got ultra bored one day, so i decided i'd take a 2 hour movie and crunch it to one svcd using some just REDICULOUS amount of passes in CCE....surely enough, the output did actually look shockingly good for an SVCD....but yea, unless your ready to put some serious effort into reencoding, id suggest either one of two things...1. Split each disc into 2 or 2. Use a dual layer disc........

[guns1inger]

On my old machine I never had the patience. A 90 minute film would take the better part of 5 - 6 hours for 3 passes. On my new one I get 4 passes (3 + analysis) in around 3 passes for the same film. If I get bored enough I might let it run one night and see what happens. To me it is like buying red wine. I can buy a very good wine for $30, or a better wine for $330. Does the better wine taste ten times better than the very good wine ? Of course not. Similarly, is the quality of a 10 pass encode 3 time better than the quality of a 3 pass encode ?

[just1ncase]

Thanks for the replies, I was able to back up "The Office UK Version" by DVD Shrinking the DVD files twice. The movie quality is decent and reasonable enough to deal with.

From what I read so far, the more passes the files goes through, the greater quality of the Back-up DVD becomes, right? I'm pretty new with backing up DVDs so bare with me. Right now, I am trying out DVD Rebuilder v0.96 Freeware along Cinema Craft Encoder SP instead of DVD Shrink to see if I can possibly get any better compression results with the quality. So, hopefully, that works out and I'll let you know about the results.