Shrinking an X.mpg file

[william wilkins]

I am new to this. I hope I am following the rules.

I have created a file on my desk top by feeding in the video out and audio out from a VCR into the Composite video and audio inputs on my computer. The file is X.mpg and is 5.5GB in size. I now wish to burn this file to a DVD. I will need to shrink this file to about 4.5GB to fit the available disk space. I am hoping to use DVD Shrink 3.2 but it does not recongize the .mpg format. Any suggestions? Thanks.

[LT. Columbo]

you need to convert it to dvd files first in order to use shrink (which is what i would do). i like TMPGEnc but it ain't freeware, there are trials though. another is mediacoder then author.