Fitting a 2hr film on 4.7gb dvd

[DB7]

Any suggestions? I find a 2hr film is sometimes around 4.9gig in size so too large for an ordinairy dvdr, so how do others manage it? I've had a recommendation to try a compression program called DVD2ONE but haven't yet give it a spin.

[Edward G]

There is a great freeware program called "RipIt4Me" which uses DVD Decrypter and DVD shrink in order to capture, compress and burn your movies to a recordable DVD (for making back-up copies of your discs for your own personal use, of course). The quality of the finished product is uniformly superb and it also removes regionality and other, shall we say "impediments", to making back-up copies. It easily outperforms a program I paid for!

Originally Posted by DB7 Any suggestions? I find a 2hr film is sometimes around 4.9gig in size so too large for an ordinairy dvdr, so how do others manage it? I've had a recommendation to try a compression program called DVD2ONE but haven't yet give it a spin.

[DB7]

Originally Posted by Edward G There is a great freeware program called "RipIt4Me" which uses DVD Decrypter and DVD shrink in order to capture, compress and burn your movies to a recordable DVD (for making back-up copies of your discs for your own personal use, of course). The quality of the finished product is uniformly superb and it also removes regionality and other, shall we say "impediments", to making back-up copies. It easily outperforms a program I paid for!

Will it play back in any dvd player? The problem with compression is that it often requires a suitable codec for playback.

[Jackdaw]

CloneDVD with AnyDVD will decode and fit to DVD5 and play on anything, but so will Shrink in my more limited experience of it.

[Edward G]

DB7,
In my experience to date it plays back on anything I have tried, 3 different DVD players and my PC. It duplicates a DVD with added features with no visible loss of quality. I don't think there is one program which is 100% perfect that can unlock regional codes, copy protection, keep quality on added content etc. so this is excellent as far as I can see.
Why not download it and try it? It would be an idea to try other programs as well, to see what is out there that is any good....

Originally Posted by DB7 Will it play back in any dvd player? The problem with compression is that it often requires a suitable codec for playback.

[johng]

Does yourrecorder not have Flexible recordingfacilities? This allows you to time the programme to fit the disc without wasting space or quality by going into LP mode.

If the film is 2 hours, you merely set the recorder for say 2 hours 10 minutes which means the film more or lesscompletely fills the disc with only 10 minutes free space left over. It does not affect the quality of the recording in any way.

[lordtednfs]

Originally Posted by DB7 Any suggestions? I find a 2hr film is sometimes around 4.9gig in size so too large for an ordinairy dvdr, so how do others manage it? I've had a recommendation to try a compression program called DVD2ONE but haven't yet give it a spin.

I recently had a copy of "Munich" given to me and found it to be a whacking 7gb+ but like I always do with all my movies, I made my own personal copy using CloneDVD and AnyDVD and found no difference in quality at all. Thoroughly recommend the above software.

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[Harbottle]

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