DVD9 to DVD5

[roflwaffle]

I know there are several ways to compress a DVD9 film to DVD5, but what is the best way in terms of preserving quality? I don't care if it takes 5 minutes or 5 hours, I just want the best quality possible.

[guns1inger]

Rip the main movie only, then use DVD Rebuilder with HCEnc to do the reduction. Finally, burn with Imgburn.

[ricoman]

Rip the main movie only, then use DVD Rebuilder with HCEnc to do the reduction. Finally, burn with Imgburn.

What he said.

[roflwaffle]

Thanks, guys.

What settings work best if I want to encode a live-action movie?

[redwudz]

Try the default settings first. You can also delete extras, extra audio, subtitles to improve quality if needed and just re-encode the main movie.

[JoeBolden]

It appears that for the best quality it's DVD Rebuilder with HCEnc is the best. or CCE $ from the replies here

As of Nov 3, 2010.

What are some other software options that will work and result in decent quality?

Assuming you use latest DVDFAB HD Decrypter or AnyDVD to rip DVD9 to HDD DVD9 Folder

I usually have been taking what I considered the easy way to keep menus and somewhat decent quality was to use DVD Shrink Open remove any audio tracks and subtitles not wanted. Shrink extras to 55 to 60% keep main movie at >70% if this was possible, use Quality for analyze & encoding plus change default sharp for movies with a lot of fast action. If not possible then forget extras and Main movie only without Menus remove any audio tracks and subtitles not wanted if.

Have experimented with still pictures for some short extras in Shrink or using VobBlanker (blanking some extras) & Pgc but somestimes would run into menu stops and other errors etc especially if the main movie was not VTS_01_xx.xxx or complicated structure.

If this wasn't possible usually because movie was over 10x to 120+ min,wanted to keep high quality audio and couldn't compress less than 70%. Would split to 2 DVD5.

Also there were glitches near the end sometimes on stand alone DVD player so I used 4.3 GB instead of default of 4.36 GB and that fixed the problem.

Also have recently tried DVDFAB

BTW Since Verbatim DL DVD9 can be had for $40+ for 50 on sale less than $1 under 4 to 1 DVD5 for cost. I have been burning Full DVD9 for favorite movies I really want to save.

Think I will try DVD Rebuilder if you think I should just forget using any of the above mentioned. I do use ConvertXtoDVD for any to DVD if I don't have DVD format but that's off topic here.

Thank you, Joey