Please Help- 7.6 GB Dual Layer to 4.3 DVD-R

[cubs4life]

I am trying to back up one of my favorite movies - Oceans Eleven (which is like 7.6 GB) and I used the tutorials on putting dvd-9 to dvd-5 by using ifoedit- but after taking out the extras (audio, the making of it, trailier, etc.) it is still 4.6GB and too big to burn onto DVD-R - Can anyone help me on this- Single Layer DVD's are so easy to backup but i'm really getting frustrated with dual layered DVD's - Help!

[wulf109]

You need to transcode the vob files to a smaller size,with the program's Rempeg and Ifoedit.
I believe Rempeg is in the tools section on this website.

[wiespino]

If you don't want to loose the quality by re-encoding the files try cutting from the movie the end credits (usually last chapter) by splitting the movie in Ifoedit.
Good Luck !

[buckonine]

you can transcode the main movie in the following manner. this is a very rough outline, but it can at least help you get the big picture. take your main movie VOB's run them through DVD2AVI, set your audio to dolby digital and dolby digital to demux all. you will end up with a *.d2v and your .ac3 tracks. then framserve the d2v so you can use it in CCE. trancsode with CCE. this will probably give you a file much smaller than you need, so then go back to CCE and do a multi pass VBR encode. when you go to the advanced section you can tweak the bitrate so that the output size wll be the maximum for the disc space. run it through again, i wouldn't do any more than a 3 pass. when you get your final output .mpv then do a 3:2 pulldown and with that file you can import it and your audio into scenarist. do the steps in there and then the output VOB's you can just image and burn, or do whatever you normally would to burn your dvd

[SergeantD]

I don't know why anyone would want to waste SO MUCH time re-encoding something to a lesser quality when they can just split to 2 DVD-Rs and also keep most of the extras when doing so. Just buy the double sided DVD-Rs at Meritline for $3, they are GREAT!!! Big deal if you must flip the movie 2/3s into the movie. You maintain 100% quality and you save tons of time not re-encoding. Plus like I said, you can still keep most of the extras on the 2nd side.

[wiespino]

I must subscribe to SergeantD opinion regarding this re-encoding thing. I never re-encode the movies. I try to strip streams and throw away extras and when that is not possible I just use 2 DVD-r's. You guys always talk about Re-Mpeg-ing the movies ?? Why ??? And takes a hell more time then just splitting to 2 DVD's. Please enlight me because I don't understand this practice. I don't say is wrong, but I just don't understand...

Thankx

[IremainAMisterE]

Well, i can't speak for everyone, but one of the reasons i just recently purchased a DVD burner....Is because i am tired of space contraints on cd-r disks. Im tired of killing the quality just to fit my movies on 1/700mb cd-r.
With the price of these DVD-R/W medias right now, i wouldn't be pissing away 2 disks for a copy of a movie. You would be better off trying to find and buy the double-sided media with 9.7GB. But hey, if you got it like that...Then so be it.
As for me, when i get my burner on Tuesday, if some of the movies don't fit on 1 DVD-R...Then im going to do whatever's in my power to make it fit. There's templates out there to use and from what i hear, when you re-encode, you can't even tell the difference from the origional.

The only negative i can find about doing this, is it's time consuming. But i could really care less. In the end....It's definately worth it! 8)

[buckonine]

first you will never hear me say anything about rempeging. i use CCE and it does realtime encoding or better i get about 1.5x realtime. i like dvd for the main reason of quality, 2nd i like not having to get my ass off the couch in the middle of a movie to switch/flip discs. let me ask you this one. Godfather II, it's 2 dvd's so what do you do? split it up twice, get up 3 times in the middle of a movie to flip discs? i think not. i did a bit of work, and it's on 1 dvdr. joined the discs, streamed the subtitles, end of story. i have it better than the people who bought it retail. just one example, but i think it's fitting. and people that botch about bitrates not being as high quality are ridiculous. retail dvd's use the space they have. 9800KB/s CBR is not dvd quality, that is overkill. you can have a movie that is covered by dvd standards that averages 2700 and will still be within specs

[estrait]

I am trying to back up one of my favorite movies - Oceans Eleven (which is like 7.6 GB) and I used the tutorials on putting dvd-9 to dvd-5 by using ifoedit- but after taking out the extras (audio, the making of it, trailier, etc.) it is still 4.6GB and too big to burn onto DVD-R - Can anyone help me on this- Single Layer DVD's are so easy to backup but i'm really getting frustrated with dual layered DVD's - Help!

I use vstrip to copy from DVD to HD. Only copy the tracks ya want usually 0xE0 & 0x80 (watch these as I have seen 0x81 and had to remap to 0x80).

If under 4.3 gb then use IfoEdit and create IFO files, then load the IFO's and use the VOB extras to regenerate the VOB correctly. Then burn back to DVD. Hoping ya know how to do this.

If still over 4.3gb which some are, I use "DVDx" or "Backup DVD" to make a NTSC compliant Mpeg file. The I use Ulead DVD Workshop and load the generated MPeg file and then create a DVD. Doing this I have taken movies over 5 & 6gb and reduced them down to a little over 3gb without any loss.

This works for me. Takes a little time though. Alot of click and wait. Best to do before bed. And all the progs I listed are out there.