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Originally Posted by cyrnel
What are you planning to use to compress two of those shrunk movies to fit on one DVD? My point (and I think Bendsley's) was that to fit two movies on one disc with MPEG-2, you're running out of bits. Original movie DVDs have quite a bit of slack, or black space, and extras, that make compressing to a single layer work nicely. Doubling that again will often start to look fugly. Especially in areas with lots of gradients. (low-light, skin-tones, underwater, etc.) Of course, depends on the movies.
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I could have been more clear. DVDXCopy (at least the version I was using) wouldn't compress. So when you burned an average movie, you had to do it onto two discs. Plus, the program put a header with their crap on each one.
So with my program (OneClickDVDCopy--I bought it), once MrKlixx steered me to that website, I've been able to take those two DVDs and combine them onto one mildly compressed disc.
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At $0.25/blank I'd just go with one disc/movie.
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Agreed.
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If you want more reduction, and are willing to spend the time, attractive results mean going to something better than MPEG-2. Remember, in a year we'll have 20/30GB discs. Even if the HD blanks are high maybe by then DL prices will drop to something reasonable. In short, at $0.25/disc don't spend too much time compressing something you may reauthor again soon.
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Thanks for the info, from both of you. I don't know anything about XVid, but I may hold off on it until more of a need arises. That was what I was saying is "a little over my head."
Again, right now, with the way things are going, I'm a happy guy.