fitting 4.8gb on to 4.7gb disc?

loup67

Hi,
Is this possible or do I need to get a larger capacity disc?
Thanks

Lorian

Zip the contents?

aliEnRIK

What files are they?

loup67

Am trying to burn a film to dvd

aliEnRIK

Use dvd shrink to remove some of the extras/languages etc not needed (or SHRINK it, but that would mean a drop in quality)

http://www.filehippo.com/download_dvdshrink/314/

However, if its not YOUR disc being used as a 'backup' what your doing is illegal and not to be discussed on this forum

Psychofly

You would probably need to re-encode the film to a slightly lower bit rate but this takes a while. Not sure what else you could do.. maybe if you're able to open the film in VirtualDub you could trim off the credits a bit and see if it's enough to get the size down.

loup67

Don't worry it is a home video!
Thanks I'll try that.

aliEnRIK

Use shrink then, I doubt you could tell a difference on a home movie even when 'shrunk' a little (Made the bitrate smaller)

savemoney

Dual layer disc. You can get a box of 25 for around £15

If its juts data use winrar or the new winzip 12 as the new compression algorithms are quite good even on photos

Didnt read the 2nd post op made about what data he had. As mentioned dvdshrink is good at video you hardly loose an quality if you want dvd mpeg2

If not I use Auto Gordian Knot for backups to compress mpeg2 to mpeg4 but you do need a dvd ripper. I back up all my dvd's with dvdshrink and also with auto guardian and very high quality

aliEnRIK

savemoney wrote: »

Dual layer disc. You can get a box of 25 for around £15

If its juts data use winrar or the new winzip 12 as the new compression algorithms are quite good even on photos

Have you used dual layer discs save? Its just ive had a ton of problems using various discs and the ONLY ones ive managed to get working properly as yet are DATWRITE TITANIUMs.

sk3

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Use dvd shrink to remove some of the extras/languages etc not needed (or SHRINK it, but that would mean a drop in quality)

http://www.filehippo.com/download_dvdshrink/314/

However, if its not YOUR disc being used as a 'backup' what your doing is illegal and not to be discussed on this forum

I second this, dvd shrink is an excellent program, very easy to use and free.