DVD Shrink alternatives?

Are there any other decent freeware programs out there that can backup
a legitimate DVD? Sometimes I run across DVDs that have 5.4GB of data
on them, which are more than 4.7GB capacities of a blank DVD.

Perhaps is there a program that can reduce the size of a movie down to
fit on a 4.7GB DVD?


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"To buy an island is the same as courting a woman. You can never explain exactly why you love her. It's chemistry--something you cannot define--a feeling that you can stay forever."
-- Farhad Vladi, Islands (mag) Jul/Aug 2005

Ablang

Dude that's what DVD Shrink is for.



"Ablang" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Are there any other decent freeware programs out there that can backup
> a legitimate DVD? Sometimes I run across DVDs that have 5.4GB of data
> on them, which are more than 4.7GB capacities of a blank DVD.
>
> Perhaps is there a program that can reduce the size of a movie down to
> fit on a 4.7GB DVD?
>
>
> ===
> "To buy an island is the same as courting a woman. You can never
> explain exactly why you love her. It's chemistry--something you cannot
> define--a feeling that you can stay forever."
> -- Farhad Vladi, Islands (mag) Jul/Aug 2005

Large Farva

Ablang wrote:
> Are there any other decent freeware programs out there that can backup
> a legitimate DVD? Sometimes I run across DVDs that have 5.4GB of data
> on them, which are more than 4.7GB capacities of a blank DVD.
>
> Perhaps is there a program that can reduce the size of a movie down to
> fit on a 4.7GB DVD?

What do you think the "shrink" in "DVD Shrink" refers to?

Pat

Pat wrote:
|| Ablang wrote:
||| Are there any other decent freeware programs out there that can
||| backup a legitimate DVD? Sometimes I run across DVDs that have
||| 5.4GB of data on them, which are more than 4.7GB capacities of a
||| blank DVD.
|||
||| Perhaps is there a program that can reduce the size of a movie down
||| to fit on a 4.7GB DVD?
||
|| What do you think the "shrink" in "DVD Shrink" refers to?

And what do _you_ think "alternative" and "other" mean?

If there's another (freeware) shrinking program that does a similar job but
by a different means and achieving a better result, I'm sure you wouldn't
mnd too much if someone were to tell us all the name of it....

paul

P Pron

On Sat, 6 Aug 2005 09:57:59 +0100, "P Pron"
<> wrote:

>Pat wrote:
>|| Ablang wrote:
>||| Are there any other decent freeware programs out there that can
>||| backup a legitimate DVD? Sometimes I run across DVDs that have
>||| 5.4GB of data on them, which are more than 4.7GB capacities of a
>||| blank DVD.
>|||
>||| Perhaps is there a program that can reduce the size of a movie down
>||| to fit on a 4.7GB DVD?
>||
>|| What do you think the "shrink" in "DVD Shrink" refers to?
>
>And what do _you_ think "alternative" and "other" mean?
>
>If there's another (freeware) shrinking program that does a similar job but
>by a different means and achieving a better result, I'm sure you wouldn't
>mnd too much if someone were to tell us all the name of it....
>
>paul


DVD2DVD-R is the best quality, better than DVDshrink, but you need CCE
or Tmpeg to encode, plus some experience with scripting.
http://www.mrbass.org/dvd2dvdr/

DVD2one is a shareware alternative to DVDshrink and it's VERY fast!
http://www.dvd2one.com/

... Steve ..

Steve(JazzHunter)

"Steve(JazzHunter)" <> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 6 Aug 2005 09:57:59 +0100, "P Pron"
> <> wrote:
>
>>Pat wrote:
>>|| Ablang wrote:
>>||| Are there any other decent freeware programs out there that can
>>||| backup a legitimate DVD? Sometimes I run across DVDs that have
>>||| 5.4GB of data on them, which are more than 4.7GB capacities of a
>>||| blank DVD.
>>|||
>>||| Perhaps is there a program that can reduce the size of a movie down
>>||| to fit on a 4.7GB DVD?
>>||
>>|| What do you think the "shrink" in "DVD Shrink" refers to?
>>
>>And what do _you_ think "alternative" and "other" mean?
>>
>>If there's another (freeware) shrinking program that does a similar job
>>but
>>by a different means and achieving a better result, I'm sure you wouldn't
>>mnd too much if someone were to tell us all the name of it....
>>
>>paul
>
>
> DVD2DVD-R is the best quality, better than DVDshrink, but you need CCE
> or Tmpeg to encode, plus some experience with scripting.
> http://www.mrbass.org/dvd2dvdr/
>
> DVD2one is a shareware alternative to DVDshrink and it's VERY fast!
> http://www.dvd2one.com/
>
> .. Steve ..

Well, unfortunatly neither of the 2 options you mention will probably work
for him. Both of those require coin and the OP wanted Free. I still have to
wonder what thier problem is with shrink. I have always gotten great results
with it.

Bratboy

On Sat, 6 Aug 2005 07:42:19 -0600, "Bratboy"
<> wrote:

>
>"Steve(JazzHunter)" <> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>> On Sat, 6 Aug 2005 09:57:59 +0100, "P Pron"
>> <> wrote:
>>
>>>Pat wrote:
>>>|| Ablang wrote:
>>>||| Are there any other decent freeware programs out there that can
>>>||| backup a legitimate DVD? Sometimes I run across DVDs that have
>>>||| 5.4GB of data on them, which are more than 4.7GB capacities of a
>>>||| blank DVD.
>>>|||
>>>||| Perhaps is there a program that can reduce the size of a movie down
>>>||| to fit on a 4.7GB DVD?
>>>||
>>>|| What do you think the "shrink" in "DVD Shrink" refers to?
>>>
>>>And what do _you_ think "alternative" and "other" mean?
>>>
>>>If there's another (freeware) shrinking program that does a similar job
>>>but
>>>by a different means and achieving a better result, I'm sure you wouldn't
>>>mnd too much if someone were to tell us all the name of it....
>>>
>>>paul
>>
>>
>> DVD2DVD-R is the best quality, better than DVDshrink, but you need CCE
>> or Tmpeg to encode, plus some experience with scripting.
>> http://www.mrbass.org/dvd2dvdr/
>>
>> DVD2one is a shareware alternative to DVDshrink and it's VERY fast!
>> http://www.dvd2one.com/
>>
>> .. Steve ..
>
>Well, unfortunatly neither of the 2 options you mention will probably work
>for him. Both of those require coin and the OP wanted Free. I still have to
>wonder what thier problem is with shrink. I have always gotten great results
>with it.
>

I mentioned them because they are "alternatives' with different
virtues. If one wants the virtue of being "free" then DVDshrink is
it. Period. I don't know of another free dual-layer to one layer
ripping application that comes close to DVDshrink's performance. And
it's pretty darn good when using comprehensive analysis. I don't
understand why one would look for an "alternative" to DVDshrink
either.

... Steve ..

Steve(JazzHunter)

"P Pron" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Pat wrote:
> || Ablang wrote:
> ||| Are there any other decent freeware programs out there that can
> ||| backup a legitimate DVD? Sometimes I run across DVDs that have
> ||| 5.4GB of data on them, which are more than 4.7GB capacities of a
> ||| blank DVD.
> |||
> ||| Perhaps is there a program that can reduce the size of a movie down
> ||| to fit on a 4.7GB DVD?
> ||
> || What do you think the "shrink" in "DVD Shrink" refers to?
>
> And what do _you_ think "alternative" and "other" mean?
>
> If there's another (freeware) shrinking program that does a similar job
> but by a different means and achieving a better result, I'm sure you
> wouldn't mnd too much if someone were to tell us all the name of it....
>


What problems are you having with DVD Shrink???

Large Farva

Steve(JazzHunter) wrote:
|| On Sat, 6 Aug 2005 07:42:19 -0600, "Bratboy"
|| <> wrote:
||
|||
||| "Steve(JazzHunter)" <> wrote in
||| message news:...
|||| On Sat, 6 Aug 2005 09:57:59 +0100, "P Pron"
|||| <> wrote:
||||
||||| Pat wrote:
||||||| Ablang wrote:
|||||||| Are there any other decent freeware programs out there that can
|||||||| backup a legitimate DVD? Sometimes I run across DVDs that have
|||||||| 5.4GB of data on them, which are more than 4.7GB capacities of
|||||||| a blank DVD.
||||||||
|||||||| Perhaps is there a program that can reduce the size of a movie
|||||||| down to fit on a 4.7GB DVD?
|||||||
||||||| What do you think the "shrink" in "DVD Shrink" refers to?
|||||
||||| And what do _you_ think "alternative" and "other" mean?
|||||
||||| If there's another (freeware) shrinking program that does a
||||| similar job but
||||| by a different means and achieving a better result, I'm sure you
||||| wouldn't mnd too much if someone were to tell us all the name of
||||| it....
|||||
||||| paul
||||
||||
|||| DVD2DVD-R is the best quality, better than DVDshrink, but you need
|||| CCE or Tmpeg to encode, plus some experience with scripting.
|||| http://www.mrbass.org/dvd2dvdr/
||||
|||| DVD2one is a shareware alternative to DVDshrink and it's VERY fast!
|||| http://www.dvd2one.com/
||||
|||| .. Steve ..
|||
||| Well, unfortunatly neither of the 2 options you mention will
||| probably work for him. Both of those require coin and the OP wanted
||| Free. I still have to wonder what thier problem is with shrink. I
||| have always gotten great results with it.
|||
||
|| I mentioned them because they are "alternatives' with different
|| virtues. If one wants the virtue of being "free" then DVDshrink is
|| it. Period. I don't know of another free dual-layer to one layer
|| ripping application that comes close to DVDshrink's performance. And
|| it's pretty darn good when using comprehensive analysis. I don't
|| understand why one would look for an "alternative" to DVDshrink
|| either.
||
|| .. Steve ..

I don't think it's necessary to have a problem with something in order to
justify being interested in whether there might be an alternative. If this
were the case, people would stop getting anything new, and the economy and
everything else would grind to a halt...

I can't speak for OP, but although I've generally had satisfactory results
from DVDShrink, there is always room for improvement. I'm perfectly happy
with 'shrink's performance when it isn't required to work too hard - say,
down to 80% compression, but when it starts approaching 70% I've found the
image softens too much for comfortable viewing. I've no experience of
alternative paid-for or free "shrinking" programs, so I don't know whether
any of the others produce better-looking results with bigger files - I may
check out the suggestions above.

paul

P Pron

Large Farva wrote:
|| "P Pron" <> wrote in message
|| news:...
||| Pat wrote:
||||| Ablang wrote:
|||||| Are there any other decent freeware programs out there that can
|||||| backup a legitimate DVD? Sometimes I run across DVDs that have
|||||| 5.4GB of data on them, which are more than 4.7GB capacities of a
|||||| blank DVD.
||||||
|||||| Perhaps is there a program that can reduce the size of a movie
|||||| down to fit on a 4.7GB DVD?
|||||
||||| What do you think the "shrink" in "DVD Shrink" refers to?
|||
||| And what do _you_ think "alternative" and "other" mean?
|||
||| If there's another (freeware) shrinking program that does a similar
||| job but by a different means and achieving a better result, I'm
||| sure you wouldn't mnd too much if someone were to tell us all the
||| name of it....
|||
||
||
|| What problems are you having with DVD Shrink???

None - most of the time. But I wouldn't say no to sharper results when it's
shrinking bigger files, if such a result were possible...

paul

P Pron