DVD Shrink help, please!!?

Question

I have a movie file that is 7.49 GB in size and I want to shrink it down to fit on a standard DVD-R. I put the file into DVD Shrink and it was running fine and I even programed it to burn on to a blank DVD-R. When it finished doing it's job. A window came up that said: File too large, cannot burn to disc. Now why did that happen, when the whole purpose is to shrink it down to fit on a standard DVD-R? What should I do now? I need to burn this movie onto a DVD-R? Can someone give me some easy to follow, step by step instructions, please?

Thank you in advance;

Gerhardt

Answer 1

For your movie to fit on a Standard DVD-R it needs to be 4.3 GB Or LESS. - The program will need a little space for menus, directories and misc. files as well as the movie. - Check the total file size of the movie AFTER using Shrink. If this is NOT the problem, your computer or program may be having a problem completing a burn, check a very small CLIP of the video for a 'Test Burn'

Hope This Helps.

Good-Luck!!

Answer 2

My guess is that its either a HD film or its copy protected, I'm gonna go with the second one, if it is copy protected just download a different version of the film.

Answer 3

Assuming source video is not copy protected, and "movie" is all you want, then Re-author the video, select the main movie, remove all the unwanted audio tracks, and then select the compression settings to make it fit on a 4.3 GB disk. It would be best if you shrunk it to hard disk first and then tested the result before burn to DVD disk. You can use numerous DVD burner applications to copy the result to DVD disk.

Entire process of shrink typical <30min on  a 1.6GHZ P4 machine.

refer to http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/dvd...

for help on how to use shrink