File size when using DVD2MPG ?

[Andy38]

Just wondering if someone could advise me. I've just installed DVD2MPG on my machine so that I can convert my DVD's to mpg which will allow me to view them through tv-out on my hp350.

When I convert to mpg I'm getting the resulting mpg file larger than I expect. When I converted a DVD which had VOB's adding up to about 4Gb the resulting mpg was around 7Gb which seemed large to me.

Is this typical ?

I'm a little limited on space with my current set-up does anyone know a way of reducing the quality and therefore the size of the resulting mpg files.

[Spartan]

That's odd. All of the 4 DVDs that I have converted are between 4 and 5 GB.

[Pioneer4x4]

does anyone know a way of reducing the quality and therefore the size of the resulting mpg files.

You would have to re-encode the files afterwards. Or you could use something like dvdshrink to shrink them first. The final size should be just under the original size if it had ac3 audio, and the same if it was just 2 channel like some older DVDs. Did the movie have anything odd like multi angle?

What was the movie, and can you attach a directory.




I also have a question about DVD2MPEG. What would the setting be to run the same utils from a folder on my HD?

[Networker]

Pioneer 4x4,

Just check out the utils and cmd line arguments configuration for that DVD2MPEG plugin or the Video Archiver plugin. That is how I hand converted a DVD before.

John

[kavel]

I'm having the same problem using DVD2MGG plugin. I tried running DVD2MPG on a previously DVDShrink'ed version of Kill Bill Vol. 2. The files created by DVDDecrypter after the first step of conversion were 3.6GB for the .m2v file and ~400MB for the .ac3 file. After BeSweet transcoded the AC3 file to MP2, it came out as ~190MB. So far so good... I was expecting MPLEX to end up with ~4GB MPG file at the end of step 4, but I ended up with ~9GB. Apart from the obvious space issues, this file doesn't play smoothly through MVP, there is a lot of stuttering.

As an experiment, I tried running MPLEX stand alone through the command line to merge the m2v and mp2 files, but nothing changed.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated...

Kavel

[Jeff]

Try using the new version of the plug-in bundled with the video archiver plug-in. Make sure you delete the old dvd2mpeg.dll or you will have problems. I have changed the default switches used for the command lines and they will (or should) produce a smaller mpeg output file now.

Jeff

[kavel]

Solved my problem Thank you very much Jeff...

Kavel

[Andy38]

Solved my problem too, Thanks Jeff