Posted by Colin Wilson on 12/29/06 22:38

Any recommendations for what is currently decent ?

I've got Sonic MyDVD v7 LE installed on my Dell box at the moment (it
came with it) and it seems to do a nice enough job for simple
compilations (which is basically all I want it for), but...

It's not supposed to, but can sometimes "fit to DVD" if you go through
the options a few times - and does a fairly good job at trying to pack
the data, for example - archive.org and the out of copyright movies -
i've got a couple i'd like to sit onto one single layer DVD.

I can upgrade to the full version of it for £25 (which will probably end
up being Roxio MyDVD v8 Premier) but having seen it in action, its
complete shite at compression compared to the older version - the two
"movies" were Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and Superman Festival.

The old version will shrink them to within 800Mb of a standard single
layer DVD (i.e. a bit too big)

The new version thinks it needs over *5Gb* more space when you select
extended play or fit to DVD - at that rate you'd be lucky to get just
one title on a disc !

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