Re-authoring "full" DVD9 to DVD5 using compression

[1107S5]

Hello,

I've had great success using the DVD2SVCD guide to backup main movie files (Many thanks to all those who helped me and sent me guides,etc.).

My next goal is to be able to compress the main movie files to the point where I can re-comile them back with rest of the data and fit it all on one DVD5 disk. Has anyone done this? If so, can someone point me in the right direction? I've searched the forum but if someone has any additional suggestions for keywords they'd be much apprecaited.

Thanks for the help

[JasonK]

It depends. Do you want to keep the menus, extras, and subs? And do you want to recompress the extras as well, or just the main movie files? You can split to 2 DVD if you want to keep everything and retain the original quality.

[1107S5]

Hi Jason,

Mainly the things I'd like to keep are the Extras and Menus. Subs are not very important.

Thanks

[herbapou]

My next goal is to be able to compress the main movie files to the point where I can re-comile them back with rest of the data and fit it all on one DVD5 disk.

I do this.

What I do is encode the movie with DVD2DVDR, I select all soundtracks and subtitles. Use the "reserved MB" on the right side of the bitrate line in the encode tab. Make sure the averate bitrate doesnt drop below 3500.

To know how much MB you need to reserved, add the size of the VIDEO_TS files and the size of the _0 VOB of the main movie. Add + 50 MB to be safe. Or you can add has many MB has you can until you reach 3500 average bitrate. Encode with 2 pass VBR.

There is a guide on doom9 that explains how to reinsert the VOBS into the original DVD so you retain menus.

For the extras ("The making of", "deleted scenes", ...) chance are you wont be able to reduce to movie size enough to include them. To get rid of the extra VOBS, take the smallest size set of VOBS/IFO/... and copy them over. After that, open an IFO file in IFOEdit and do "Get VTS sectors". (There are better ways to do this, but this is pretty easy and it works)

Another solution would be re-encode the extras too. But with mutiple PGC extras in multiple VOBS, the amount of efford needed to copy a DVD is getting borderline ridiculous.