ok. here's the deal. i know how to back up my dvd's. in fact i do this quite often with dvd shrink in order to keep all of my original's safe and in excellent condition. my problem is that i got a new dvd which seems to exceed the space provided on my usual dvd's that i use for copying. my question is "how could someone fit so much on a dvd, yet i can't copy that much on a blank one?" the disk is 5 hrs long. i've never come across this problem before. is there a way to compress these files in order for it to fit and still be readable in a dvd player? thanx for the help...
You are recording to DVD5 and the source is DVD9. That's where shrink comes in. If you don't want to compress that much (I wouldn't), burn it to a DL disc (DVD9)...
The video quality won't be very good but you can run it through shrink twice. Save it to a hdd folder the first pass and then load that folder back in shrink and run it through again.
Both teflonmyk and Mort81 suggestions are good. Run it through Shrink and see what your compression is going to be and then determine what you want to do. Sometimes movies will show a longer time than they actually are in Shrink. The new Hide and Seek has four different endings, and Shrink and other programs show the disk to be 8 hours long, when it really is not. You can always split too if you want to keep your quality.
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