just a quick coiple of questions, what size is a typical BD movie bought from the shops and are they single layer or dpouble layer? And will the film fit onto a single layer BD without shrinking the movie but taking out all the extra's?
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if the disc is 50gb what size would the actual movie be? for example iron man is a 50gb disc, now i wanted to put it onto a 25gb disc but i dont want to shrink the movie as that defeats the purpose of blu-ray, but would just the movie no extras or anything else fit onto a 25gb disc?
Ya I would like to know what sizes the Blu-Ray movies are too?! I mean, I know that they have 25GB & 50GB Discs, but if you look at the videos that are uploaded, they are only about 8GB or so? The largest one I saw was 3:10 to Yuma, and it was only 14GB?
I visit www.blu-ray.com frequently, and they're not always right about D/L, S/L discs... most of the time they are. If you have a BD reader for your PC you can rip them, recode & shrink, then burn to a DVD9. Seriously, there is very little perceivable quality loss when using a good encoder, like x264.
Back to the topic. Now that BD+ and BD Live are rolling out the majority of the BDs are BD50s, however the actual main movie is generally between 20-25GB... I have seen some as high as 35GB.
Now, If you are dead set about using BD25s, you can strip the HD audio from the main stream and use just the core, remove all of the other audio streams as well, this could account for up to 5GB of space.
If you are interested in recoding, and burining HD movies to DVD9s visit this thread, there's a lot of helpful and knowledgable people there. Near the end of the thread a new user uploaded all that is needed to recode, and I believe a guide on how to do this as well
Great advice above, I've only ran into one stream too big @ 29 gigs. I used tsmuxer to split it onto 2 bd-re's. Just another option that worked well for me.
