DVD Shrink

You want to let your kids have DVDs, why not? Well, one reason could be that they get their grubby little paws onto the disc surface, or don't take particular care with what could a treasure part of your collection. Back in the days of video tape, you could make a copy of the movie using a couple of video recorders. You accepted that the quality may not be the same, but it was better than having to buy a new copy because the kids had destroyed the original. A similar thinking can be applied to DVDs, however, original DVDs store a lot more information than the blank recordable DVDs that are available, usually 6 to 9 Gb, compared to 4.3 Gb of a ...

Have you ever tried getting a two litre jug and trying to ram it full with 3 litres of liquid ? What happens isn't that successful, though when it comes to making DVD's inexperienced users try to do just that, though with content rather than liquid. The content of a DVD is often enormous and cannot be written to an average size writeable DVD. When you try to do this with standard re-write software, although some offer limited shrinking of files, like the Microsoft Media Centre, often that little bit of squashing of the file results in bad copies, or isn't sufficient to shrink the file sufficiently to copy it. Believe me, I tried everything to get a back up ...