DVD5 to Mini DVD, Which is the best and easier Software out there ?

[acidcrash]

I'm wanting to backup my DVD5 to Mini DVD's. I've tried using DVD Shrink to backup them but the quality isn't that good. What other softwares are there in the market and which is most recommended for quality. Thanks

[Richard_G]

My immediate thought was why? But, you must have your reasons.....

You aren't going to get good quality no matter what software you use. DVDShrink, and most other similar packages do a pretty reasonable job of shrinking a DVD9 dual layer disc down to a DVD5 single layer. Basically, they are compressing the content down to half it's original size. You are trying to shrink 4.7 GB on a DVD5 down to 1.4 GB on a mini DVD. That's a lot of compression so the quality never will be good.

[Super Warrior]

Yuck...4.7GB to 1.4GB?

I doubt you've even be able to get VCD quality out of that. Its just a bad idea.

[classfour]

watching on a gamecube?????

[QuaiBoy]

Use DVD2One or DVDShrink. Only by removing all extras, menus, alternate audio streams etc will you get it to something managable. If after all of that it still looks bad then you're SOL. Good luck.

-Evan

[69mako]

Would it be possible to use DVD rebuilder and an encoder and get a little better results than DVDshrink and its transcoder..... Maybe go to D1/2?

Mako

[guns1inger]

Although you can resize to half-D1, there is no simple way to select a target size in DVD Rebuilder - it is either DVD5 or DVD9. The only sane way to do this with some semblance of quality is to strip the disc down, re-encode the movie manually - HCEnc is very good at lower bitrates - and re-author.

[QuaiBoy]

Also, if the player you intend to use these with supports Divx or some other codec then that's another option. You will have much better results with Divx, that's for sure.

[Marvingj]

Why? I just don't get it. Why?

[DereX888]

Why? I just don't get it. Why?

I heard of a truckload of miniDVD-Rs thats been missing...

[guns1inger]

Maybe he is creating mission briefing discs for his I:M team

[David K]

He might have a portable DVD-player that only plays mini-DVDs.
I saw a Samsung model (DVD-L25) reduced in price on Amazon like that.
I was tempted to buy it for a moment but then realized that I'd have to re-author everything to use it.

[QuaiBoy]

That would be a fun toy to play with for the $$$.
Too bad I already have too many toys...