DVDShrink 2 times?

[Joe328]

I ripped a movie. Then used dvd shrink. The movie is still too big. Can I use dvd shrink for a second past to get it to fit on a dvdr?

Joe328

[K2]

Seems everyone is asking this question, but no one seems to have tried.

You could be the first.

[Joe328]

I will later, I guess. I'm doing it through IC7 right now. Have to wait for it to finish. I tried dvd2one but it sutters and pixilates. IC7 is ol reliable but slow. If this two pass works its gonna be goooood.

Joe328

[mrbass]

I honestly don't seem to understand. You guys are talking about doing a 1:1. The reasoing behind doing it twice is to get it to fit? Huhhh?

Why don't you do you 1:1 and choose customize streams then put extras at level 3 or level 4 and try to get the main movie to level 1 or level 2 and if it takes stripping out some audio streams to achieve it do that.

I honestly don't understand this 2 dvdshrink process...someone throw up a guide or something or explain it to a dummy like me please.

[SVCDummy]

Okay, I tried this and DVDShrink just stops about 10% into the process.
It throws up an error window that says "No Error" (yeah right).

The process bar posts the message "Stopped" above the bar and it just sits there.

In short... No, you apparently cannot DVDShrink 2 times.

For my test I did the X-Men DVD completely transcoded at level 4 and burned it. Then put the burned DVD in the dirve and tried to DVDShrink it again to generate this error.

Hope that helps.

[adam]

Well maybe some types of DVDs won't work but I have done this on two DVDs already.

There are two reasons why someone might want to do this.

1) Even at level 4, someone might want to compress the extra's further to make more room for the movie. I know that in my own encodes I manually encode the extra's at a much lower bitrate and get much smaller filesizes than what level 4 in DVD Shrink can give.

2) To compress different TYPES of frames. Levels 1 and 2 only compress B pictures, level 3 does P pictures and level 4 compresses I frames. Personally I find level 4 compression absolutely useless, as the resulting quality is unwatchable in my opinion. Yet running DVDShrink twice, once at level 3 and again at level 1 or 2, yields much better quality in almost the same amount of space as level 4. Basically I would rather compress P and B frames rather than I frames, and in some cases I may want to just really compress the hell out of only the B pictures. Neither of these scenarios is possible in only one pass.

[oldfart13]

I used this proggie since everyone was raving about it but the movie I did had no extras. It was just a long movie that had to be re-encoded to fit a 4.7 Gig DVD-R. The pic is horrible though as it needed to compress to 46%. Lots of macroblocking on movement as well as mosquito noise. I guess there are some disks you just won't be able to use this kind of software on...

[drew22to375]

I used this proggie since everyone was raving about it but the movie I did had no extras. It was just a long movie that had to be re-encoded to fit a 4.7 Gig DVD-R. The pic is horrible though as it needed to compress to 46%. Lots of macroblocking on movement as well as mosquito noise. I guess there are some disks you just won't be able to use this kind of software on...

what movie did you use and how big was it.

[daredevil]

i've tried dvdshrink two times and the quality was quite bad, i used for the two times level 4 compression and it's very blockiness, kind of special modern art.

[adam]

daredevil running level 4 once yields unacceptable quality in my opinion. If you are going to run it twice than try and either only use levels 1 and 2, or use either level 1 or 2 and level 3. This way you are compressing only B pictures or some B and some P pictures. Level 4 compresses I pictures, which apparantly never looks good.

[mrbass]

I suggest use only Level 1 or Level 2....if you can't get it down by cutting credits, stripping out extra audio, etc. and it'll require either a Level 3 or Level 4 then choose Level 0 which is no compression let it run then feed that to Instant Copy.

[oldfart13]

But then, wouldn't that defeat the purpose of using DVD Shrink in the first place? Why use 2 programs? What this program needs is some way to set the compression so it will fit the resultant file to the 4.36 Gig maximum. As it is now, you can't do that. It wants to use some settings of it's own.

The movie I did was just naturally long. The Vobs were over 7 Gig. There were no extras, no extra languages, no subs, nothing. Cutting the titles would only cut the file size by 100 Meg.

For now, it's a nice program but it just can't be used for some films.

[muralin]

if the movie is between 4.3GB and 6 GB, use dvd shrink, dvd2one, or dvd95copy. remove unneeded streams to maximize video quality.

if movie is over 6 GB, if u want to preserve quality, use DVD Toolbox and split it into 2 DVDRs.

u can put 6 lb of shit in a 4 pound bag but not 7 )