Compressing burned DVD files

Maxwell

Hello All,

I am been making back up's of my DVD's so I can play through my hard drive when travelling etc, but I used www.dvd-x-backup.com to copy them. The problem is that it creates video and audio folder and the size usually comes out at between 6-7 gig, hence my hard drive gets clogged up quite easily.

Basically can anyone advise of any way I can compress these files to make them smaller - and will I loose alot of quality?

Not exactly techy minded, so would appreciate some sort of software that I can use and a step by step guide.

Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance

Khannie

dvdshrink

OMcGovern

Your official "pressed" DVD's can be much higher capacity than a normal DVD+R.
DVD Shrink will compress and shrink an arbitrary film into 4.5Gb or so, letting you remove extra subtitles, etc

http://www.dvdshrink.org

Although if you really want better compression, you need a tool to convert films to DivX or XDiv. That should compress things down to under 1Gb per movie.
( no recommendations there though )

regards,
Owen

Tom Dunne

Gordian knot.

Karoma

another 3 thumbs up for DVDShrink - it does the job, does it well, and makes life easy for us lazy types.

Khannie

You'll get much better compression with AutoGK, but it costs lots of processor cycles.

Maxwell

Thanks very much for the advice everyone, I will test this out and see how it works for me.