Movie Still Too Large

[illini19]

I ripped oceans 11 DVD to my hard drive and followed all the guides to get it down to 4.7 to burn onto a DVD with my DVD burner.

After cutting out all the extra menus and crap out of the movie, I just have the main movie in a folder (5 VOB's) on my hard drive. I ran through TMPG and it still is too large, like 5GB.

Is there anything more I can do to get it at the 4.7?

Thanks

B

[musicnyman]

are you reconding the file to make it fit on a 4.7 gig disk? or just stripping all the menus and leaving the dvd streams as is? you could always rencode it through tmpgenc and turn down the bitrate, rencode it to fit on 4.7 gig disk. you should only have to turn it down maybe 200-300 b/s.

[adam]

Well first you should demultiplex any audio streams you don't need. Don't speak french? Why keep it?

You may then consider lowering the bitrate of the remaining audio streams, if you would rather do that than re-encode your video. Ultimately, you will probably have to re-encode your video however. Musicnyman, actually he will have to lower his bitrate a little bit more than that. Remeber, dvds don't store data the same as your pc does. The actual capacity of your dvd is only about 4.3 gigs, at least thats how much you can fit if your using your pc to to author, which of course you are.

[illini19]

Well, I actually took out all the languages, menus and everything else. All it is right now is the main movie...so I began the math process.

Size of actual VOBS (and actual video stream)
Size of IFO'S and BUP'S
Size of the Audio

After all that, my calcualtions came out I still needed to scale down to 89.13% so I used reMPEG and it came out fine---4.3GB perfect!

I prefer to use TMPG but couldn't get the audio to sync up. I think it had something to do with the rate control mode I was using and the settings. I had it on the 2-pass VBR but I am not sure my #'s were correct for avg, max and min. I know they were correct in reMPEG. Any thoughts on that?

Any who, after all that I go to burn the DVD-R in RecordMax Now and right at the end I get a buffering error. I take the dvd out and it plays fine unitl like the last 10 minutes of the movie. No idea why. Any better programs I should try or ideas why it could of happened?

Sorry for the long post. I appreciate all the help.

B

[illini19]

I guess my biggest question using TMPG is the settings for the 2-pass VBR.

For the audio I just encode video only and then load the template that I made from the VOB's in INFOEDIT with all these instructions from the guide http://www.doom9.org/mpg/tmpg-dvdencoding.htm

Thats when the movie is still to large and teh audio is all not sync'd up halfway through the movie.

Thanks again for all the help.