DVD Shrink not shrinking - Pursuit of Happyness

[heyjjjaded]

I ripped Pursuit of Happyness with DVDFab HD Decrypter. When I try to shrink it with DVD Shrink, it doesn't want to shrink it though. I use DVD shrink all the time & it always shrinks the files automatically. Is there something special about this DVD that wants me to change some setting? Video compression setting is on "automatic." In the Re-Author mode, I add the movie to the DVD compilation and it says the file size is 4800 mb. That's it ... it won't shrink. If I hit "backup," I get a message saying that the DVD size is too big. What am I missing? Thank you.

[primus_fan2001]

I backed up this movie with no problems awhile ago. What version of DVDfab HD Decrypter are you using?

[guns1inger]

The amount shrink is able to reduce a file is very much contingent on the way the source has been encoded. Sometimes Shrink in unable to reduce a film enough in the first pass. This leaves you two main options.

1. You can shrink once, writing the results to your HDD, then load this back into Shrink and process it a second time. This will usually get you down to your target, but the quality hit might not be worth it (generally, if you need toeven consider this option, you are asking Shrink to do too much)

or

2. Use DVD Rebuilder instead. The results will take longer, but the quality will be substantially higher. Use the free HCEnc encoder (comes with DVD Rebuilder) for great results.

[heyjjjaded]

Thanks. I'm using the most recent DVDFab HD Decrypter ... just updated to the current version this morning. For some reason, the "automatic" compression setting on DVD Shrink will only go down to 99.0% for this movie. If I change to "custom" compression, I can go up from 99.0% to 100.0% ... but I can't go down. To me, it's not that DVD Shrink is working too hard on this movie ... it's that it barely wants to work at all. Any other ideas?

[redwudz]

Are you only backing up the main movie or the whole DVD? It appears to be a 117 minute movie, so length doesn't seem to be a factor. DVD Shrink works by sort of removing bits of the movie it thinks you won't miss. Similar to taking out every other frame, but much more sophisticated. It seems unlikely, but maybe your movie isn't easily 'shrinkable'.

Rather than fighting it, if all other DVDs work properly in Shrink, would be to try DVD Rebuilder. At least with this DVD.

[heyjjjaded]

Thanks. I ripped the whole movie with DVDFab HD Decrypter. In DVD Shrink, I was in the Re-Author mode to back-up only the main movie and a couple extras. The automatic compression won't go below 99% though ... that's the hang-up. I've never used Rebuilder, but I've downloaded, installed, and am tying to figure it out now.

[zookeeper525]

dvd-rb is great! i use it with cce sp great software

[heyjjjaded]

In reading about DVD Rebuilder, am I right that I can only use it to back-up the entire DVD? Can't just select the main movie?

[guns1inger]

DVD Rebuilder Pro allows you to do this.

You can use Shrink in Re-author mode, write the results with No Compression to your HDD, then use DVD Rebuilder, or you can rip Movie Only with DVDFab HD Decrypter, then process.

[heyjjjaded]

Thanks. Just tried DVDFab HD Decrypter to rip the main movie only. Out of curiousity, I then tried to shrink the files with DVD Shrink, but it still will only compress down to 99.0%. So I shrunk the files with DVD Rebuilder. Seems to have worked ... the compressed files are being burned to disc with Image Burn now.
Update: Worked perfectly with DVDFab HD Decrypter (main movie only) - DVD Rebuilder - Image Burn. Thanks again!

[HmNtr]

I just tried AnyDVD 6.4.9.2 on the Pursuit of Happyness, and it hung on the third IFO file...any one else have this problem ripping the movie?