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kyley
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_ 		18. July 2004 @ 12:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Someone else here posted about a problem with Bad Santa (Badder actually), and I'm having a similar problem. DVD Shrink 3.1.7.6 gets through the Analysis just fine, but even if I do a reauthor with just the movie (and it's only English), the compression is still at 85.8%! The movie is only 1 hour 39 minutes - what gives? When I do No Compression for the movie only, it shows 5,145 MB. My DVD burner is a Memorex 4X (IIRC it's the same hardware as the Pioneer drives). Any idea why this movie won't fit on one DVD uncompressed? TIA,
--Kyle
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karen2003
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_ 		18. July 2004 @ 14:09 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Someone correct me if I'm wrong ... but when Shrink shows 85.8%, I think that's actually a compression level of 100 minus 85.8% = 14.2% compression. So really, not much compression at all. (This makes sense mathematically too -- 5,145mb x 85.8% = 4,414mb to fit on a DVD-R. I would actually lower that to 4,300 or 4,350 to make sure everything fits without a problem.)
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Karen H.--Dell Optiplex GX240, P4 1.50ghz, 256mb RAM (yeah, I need more), Windows XP Pro w/SP1, 80gb c: drive (replaced the 20gb c: that crashed), 126gb i: drive, 124gb j: drive, 500gb external hard drive partitioned into k: and l: drives, Sony DDU1621/C1 DVD-ROM to rip/encode, Sony DRX-530UL to burn, new Sony DRX-840U to burn DL discs ... need a new computer to go with it!!
kyley
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_ 		18. July 2004 @ 14:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yeah, that's right (my wording could have been better), but the reason I was asking is because usually short movies like that will fit on a single dvd with no compression at all (and even room for extra features). What I've already learned since I posted this message is that it's probably due to a higher bit rate on some of these newer dvds. So, I guess that compressing these dvds a little is no worse than an "uncompressed" dvd copy where the original had a lower bit rate... Take care,
--Kyle
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_ 		18. July 2004 @ 18:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It depends on the movie. Reguardless of the movie run time the size of the file can be bigger or smaller than a DVD-5.
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