QUOTE (Harukalover @ May 10 2009, 09:35 PM) Where is the 12gb from?
If you rip the iso and extract the files entirely, they are 12gb for the two video files.
QUOTE (langes01x @ May 10 2009, 09:22 PM)QUOTE (doomsayer @ May 10 2009, 09:00 PM) I think you got your facts wrong, Blu-ray disc capacities are 25gb for a single layer and 50 for a dual layer. Regular DVD's are 4.7gb for single and 8.5 for dual layer, so I cant see them compressing a 12gb file to 8 since that would be useless.
As for your original question, you could try making a ISO file with Power ISO or magic ISO and using DVD shrink to compress it to a single layer dvd with no quality lose at all.Â
Hate to say it but DVD shrink is not lossless. Oh and it only works with DVD video and not data discs as far as I know. So unless they added a bunch of new features it wouldn't help.
How about something like UHarc?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UHarc
The only problem with it is that it seems to work only on dos/windows.
thanks I will check this out.
QUOTE (doomsayer @ May 10 2009, 10:02 PM)QUOTE (langes01x @ May 10 2009, 10:22 PM) Hate to say it but DVD shrink is not lossless. Oh and it only works with DVD video and not data discs as far as I know. So unless they added a bunch of new features it wouldn't help.Â
Yes its true that dvd shrink isn't lossless, but he's going from 5 to about 4.2 so it would be lossless, so thats why I stated that it would have no quality loss. I have heard that it can do data but I don't know since I don't use it except to back up my dvds.
Basically that's a basic range since it's just irritating to have something that barely exceeds the size of a DVD and not be able to fit it. In fact, something like Persona -trinity soul- or Nagasarete Airantou are great examples on my hard drive at the moment. The are both about 4.45gb, of which I'm trying to shrink to 4.3 gb. That's about the size of one episode, if not less and it's irritating that winrar and 7zip no longer properly compress video files (and yes they use to).
It's just irritating at the moment that I don't have enough space and I'm eating up a lot of DVDs every week now (blames Basquash for 500MB per episode) and until I get my new terrabyte external in August after the anticipated price drop, I don't think my current hard drive will last, especially with the amazing summer line up...and I really don't want to be using up these DVDs so fast... I had 100 new ones in March and I think I ran through almost 15-25 of them now.