Changing Lanes just baaarley fits.

Just a heads up. This Movie WILL fit on 1 DVD-5 considering you: 1. Keep only the main movie. (no menus) 2. Keep only 1 DD track and no subtitles. 3. Discard the Paramount intro and outro (VOB IDs 1 and 18) I believe this is the closest call I've had as the resulting files total 4,694,763,520 bytes. (pretty damn close to 4.37 gigs) This is the region 1 version. Hope this saves you guys some time.

Thanks for the help. It would be cool to have a forum in the DVD section that has only posts like this to offer quick solutions that may be overlooked.

Motivated by your request, I started a new thread about this in the suggestion area. If we gather some support maybe the forum will be opened.

i did a DVDVirtuoso project at work that came to 4.698GB (yes base 10, not base 2) Enf...

i just did this movie, but kept almost everything ot make it complete. basically, the only thing i ripped out was a dolby 2.0 english and a dolby 2.0 french audio track. i kept the dolby 5.1 and the commentary track. full menus were kept untoached. i then re-encoded all the extras to a 2500 avg bitrate. i was able to use a 4475 avg bitrate for the movie which looks just like the original (used CCE to do a 5 pass encode). so, if you want to make the disc complete, here's my method :)

Rempeg Problem 

This is the second movie I've encountered (the first being The Gift) which doesn't seem to Rempeg. It's only 98 minutes so the file size shouldn't be as large as it is (same as The Gift). After using Rempeg you'll end up with blocks appearing in the picture. The movie can be trimmed to fit on one disk but I'm real curious as to what is causing this problem - anybody have an idea? Thanks

Eyes Only, While I respect your obvious knowledge of DVD authoring, why would I want to "take the time to learn things right" if all I'm concerned with is the main movie? I don't want to piss off all you "purists" out there, but when I throw in a DVD, I think it's a hassle to navigate through menus, choose subs or not, and choose prologic, DD, or DTS. If I'm not going to use these other features, why put them on my disc? Because it's not "right"? When you re-author your discs, do you keep the FBI warnings also? Because they are on the original.:D If I do have to bring down the bitrate, I just re-encode with CCE and author with Spruce. Cop-out? Maybe. Easy? Yes. But if I had to take my bitrate down to 2500, I would rather split that title. (or actually buy it):eek: Even at a 5 pass VBR, I would see a difference on my HDTV. Sorry for the rant, but everyone on this board has his/her own ways of doing things for whatever their purpose. BTW, keep up the good work Eyes. It's guys like you that make my (DVD related) life easier. :)

to each his own, true. i did the extras at 2500 since the main movie still had a bitrate of 4450 which is still way higher than i normally do. so, it depends on the title obviously and how many extras. i would say i re-encode the extras to 2000 avg more times than anything else. some of the lowest bitrates i've used for a main movie was 3100 i think. i used that for Hart's War (kept all commentaries, deleted scenes, menus) and Donnie Darko (complete except for french audio). i like to get around 3500 the min usually, but i like the extras a lot personally, so i keep what i can. oh, and if there's dts, i 've always gotta keep that :) i love dts.

Points taken Eyes. Very intelligent reply. You would probably be surprised how many people find the "easy" method difficult. Think about throwing someone face first into Scenarist.:devil: Sometimes I think too much so I don't have to work as hard. You're right though, no need to promote stupidity. As for the jewelry, let's leave that to the females. :sly: