downsizing DVD movies

[G16aByT3]

TR,

Thanks for the help!!! I will have to try it and let you know my results.

levystr pm me if you want it.

G16aByT3

[G16aByT3]

TR,

Does VFAPI create small AVI files from the VOB files? I have 8GB of files and it created a 16MB file????? Does the this work under XP or am I missing something?



G16aByT3

[TedRogers]

yep,

vfapi creates a farty little file (little grey camera, i think) - just drag and drop into cce.

Regards

TR

[G16aByT3]

TR,

are you using CCE-lite or pro or SP. Wouldnt it be better to use VBR instead of CBR?? if you have SP could we talk?

thanks

G16aByT3

[Taurus]

Hi All,
I' m in the same boat. Thanks for the instruction. I finished up to the step Cinema Craft Encoder. But I don't have spruce or scenarist. Anythings else could I use to replace its? Thanks

[tonyf2001]

Hi
I dont think a 9.4g disk will do the trick. They appear to be double
sided , so unless the software allows you to stop partway through a burn and turn the disk you still have a problem.
The only way I can think of is to find a way of removing unwanted
video section. etc . Foreign language clips and the like until
the vob is of a manageable size. Anyone?

Regards
Tony

[G16aByT3]

Thanks for the offer Taurus as I've just gotten it. Now since a movie can be in excess of 4.7GB then you have 4 alternatives.

1) re-encode the DVD to slower bitrates to make smaller files and then use a DVD authoring program to accept those files and try to keep the menuing the same.

2) re-encode the DVD and split them to 2 DVDs, but you will have to recreate the menuing system so that it works.

3) split the DVDs into 2 DVDs and just recreate the menues for them.

4) cut all of the extras and what nots out of the DVD and just include the movie. You still have to create a menu or just an auto-run to the movie.

Right now, I am just experimenting and learning what needs to be done. Thanks goes to TedRogers for the big help there.

G16aByT3

[levystr]

spruce

Thanks for spruceup dvd maestro.
Very great software,but for the moment ,i learn how use all of
options...
No limitations with 5.1 files.

[TedRogers]

G16aByT3

You're Welcome

[ilscuro]

Tonyf2001 use dvddecryptor steam processing feature then just deselect all the foreign language and subtitle streams and start ripping
using this method you will find a lot of movies come out under 4.3gb














You reap what you sew

[xDJx KinetiX]

can i use a different dvd authoring program?

do i have to use spruce to burn the dvd? can i use DVDit PE?

[ilscuro]

use spruceup dvdit or maestro to author and nero to burn

[CGreenlawMD]

down sizing DVD's greater than 4.7 gig

I use three methods to reduce the size of larger DVD's. If the DVD isn't extremely large and has two channel english sound, I use SmartRipper and process just the video and sound to AC3 and mpv files then I use DVDit (not LE) to burn the DVD. If the movie is much to large for this, I simply capture the DVD playing directly from my stand-a-lone DVD player to my RadionVideo capture into MPEG2 files and burnit in DVDit. I also have purchased Dazzle DVD Creation Station 200 which has a built in MPEG2 decoder chip which is fast. However, the capture program that goes with this device is difficult to figure out. You can capture into the programs (DVD Complete & Movie Star 5) but then your not utilizing the MPEG2 decoder chip and the quality isn't as good and many times can't keep up with the movie despite the fact I'm using an AMD 2200 processor, 1 gig of ram and GeForce video.

[CGreenlawMD]

Downside of Dazzle DVD creation station 200 and DVDit prof

I forgot to mention two important aspects of DVD creation station 200 and DVDit prof, in the former if you play the ripped DVD from any player to capture it in another computer, it is displayed with a boarder which I don't think can be removed. With respect to DVDit pro, when you produce the AC3 file, it has to be 2 channel as it can not produce a DVD using a 6 channel AC3 file. A lot of DVD's don't seem to have 2 channel English files other than comment files.

[ilscuro]

For those who dont have hardware encoder cards the easist and quickest way is to CCE use min bitrate set to zero in cce and max set to whatever is needed to get a specified output size (use tmpgenc to work out file size needed). for example do a 3 pass encode set minimum to 0 maximum to 8000 and average to 2000 (or whatever to get your specified output size) and let cce crunch away final file will be around 1.5 meg so you could get 2 or3 films on a dvdr and its very hard to notice any difference from original film.
i use new cce ver2.66 which lets me frameserve from virtualdub