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Copying a 5gb dvd to a single dvd
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edwood
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8. September 2005 @ 22:39 |
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I have a dvd that is slightly under 5gb that I cannot edit to reduce the size to copy to a single dvd5. Is there a way to compress this dvd, so that it will fit on a single layer dvd? I cannot spread it over two dvd's because of the loss of the menu for the second dvd.
Thanks for your help.
Ed
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8. September 2005 @ 22:51 |
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9. September 2005 @ 02:44 |
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edwood
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9. September 2005 @ 06:22 |
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Thanks for the responses.
I have the latest version of DVD Shrink (I think). I downloaded it yesterday. I have also printed out the instructions for ripping a DVD9 to a DVD5, and I understood that I would have to remove some of the extra audio, video clips, etc. to condense the total size (everything in the red bar area) down to the size that would fit on a DVD5 blank disk.
Since there is not any extra information I can eliminate, I did not think that DVD Shrink would do the job.
Again, thanks for your help.
Ed
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edwood
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16. September 2005 @ 07:07 |
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Please bear with a newbie.
I have downloaded various programs that rip a dvd to copy it to my hd, and/or burn it to a new dvd.
I have a dvd that DVD Shrink 3.2 reads as 5,919mb with the blank dvd size set at 4,360mb. There is not any extra information that I can strip from the dvd. Everything on the dvd is needed for a complete copy of the dvd. DVD Shrink 3.2 tells you to remove unwanted features, etc. (which there are none in this case).
My question is: "Are there ANY programs available that will take the 5,919mb file size and compress it to the 4,360mb size to fit on the single layer DVD5?" If not, is it possible to compress the file size down, and, if so, how?
Thank you for your patience with me as I try my hand at this project.
Regards,
Ed Wood
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16. September 2005 @ 07:20 |
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Did you run this through Shrink, and then your file size still remains a 5.9?
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edwood
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17. September 2005 @ 05:27 |
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I tried. If I run DVD Shrink on the copy on the hd, and try to burn it to a dvd, it tells me that the file size is too large, and will might not be readable. I tried to burn it to a dvd rw disk first to see if it would work, but I got a write error.
Regards,
Ed
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17. September 2005 @ 05:36 |
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Did you rip this DVD with DVD Decrypter in file mode and then go into Shrink and use re-author?
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17. September 2005 @ 05:42 |
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When using Shrink you if you do not want to remove anything from your movie you do not have to, just hit the full disk button on the tool bar.
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edwood
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17. September 2005 @ 07:58 |
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arnibear,
i used dvd encrypter to rip the file to the hd. when i went into DVD Shrink, i did not choose reauthor. i simply selected full disk and tried to run it that way.
i will try your suggestions, and let you know what happens.
thanks,
ed
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edwood
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17. September 2005 @ 10:30 |
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Arnibear,
I ran DVD Shrink on the hd image again, then tried to backup using full disk. I could not find any way to backup using re-author. Again, I got the message that the disk was too small to burn the
file(s). I put a fresh DVD+R 4.7gb disk into the drive and tried again using full disk backup. Again, the message that the disk was too small.
The file on the hd was ripped by DVD Decrypter. However, there is not any encryption on this disk, so it does not need that step.
Any more suggestions?
Regards,
Ed
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17. September 2005 @ 10:56 |
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My suggestion is you read the guides while your doing it you should have no problem!
What movie is it?
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17. September 2005 @ 15:20 |
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@edwood
Are you outputting your Shrink file to your hard drive, or trying to put it directly to you DVD disk? You have to let Shrink encode to your hard drive first and then burn to a disk. Shrink does not burn to disk, you must use another program for this.
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edwood
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18. September 2005 @ 15:29 |
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It is not a movie. It is a dvd copy of the Old Testament.
Ed
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18. September 2005 @ 15:43 |
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Again, are you outputting your file to your hard drive folder first and the burning? If so try running it through Shrink twice and see what happens. Let it be output to your hard drive folder and then if it is still too big, open that folder and let it encode again.
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