Posted by E. Barry Bruyea on 10/24/06 18:58

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:27:07 -0500, "Peter H. Coffin"
<hellsop@ninehells.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:35:32 -0400, E Barry Bruyea wrote:
>> I recently went to make a backup copy of a DVD I bought at a Garage
>> Sale. It was a 'Two Sided' DVD of the remake (2003) of the movie
>> 'Spartacus' and I ran it in DVDShrink to take out the extraneous
>> stuff. I was going to put both sides on one Single layer DVD. I
>> processed the first & second sides into separate folders and then
>> began to combine them both, but was told the resulting file would be
>> too big for a DVD. Each side was 1hr, 28 minutes after I'd elimited
>> the extras; I've copied many DVD's that were 3 hours long, but when I
>> checked the actual VOB files on the original disk, I found there were
>> a total of 4 1gig & 1 378meg files for each 1hr & 28 minute side.
>> I've not had that much experience backing up DVD's but I have to admit
>> I haven't a clue as to why this one is so damn big.
>
>I don't know the particulars of this disc, but a dual-sided disc can
>also be dual layer on each side and contain 3-4 times the amount of
>data that a single-layer, single-sided disc can. Which means the
>"shrinkification" (which is actually a fast decode and recode at a
>hopefully higher compression rate) just can't find enough data to remove
>from the AV streams to make it all fit. Conceptually, it's kind of like
>trying zip together a bunch of zipfiles. You don't end up saving much,
>if anything.
>
>And a personal comment: Dude, you bought this at a garage sale. It was
>probably priced around a tenth of what it was new. Just watch it and
>enjoy it, and get your pittance of pleasure out of it. If you like it a
>lot, keep it out of the reach of children until they know how to handle
>discs without wrecking it. You won't need "backups" then, until the disc
>deteriorates from old age, and that will happen whether you watch this
>one or your "backup". And your "backup" will probably deteriorate first
>anyway.


You didn't read my post and my name isn't 'Dude'. But then, when 12
year olds answer posts, your libel to get anything.

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