shrink mpg2

[gimpchop]

hi im trying to shrink a mpg2 file cos it 8gb and need to shrink it to 4gb so it fits on to a dvd is there a way to do this thanks.:)

ok celtic_druid will you pls help me now.

[^Dylan]

If its a DVD spec mpeg then you could author it using a dvd authoring software then running the created vobs through one of the many one click shrink programs such as DVD Shrink to reduce the size to fit on a DVDR.

[MamaKin]

Just outta interest. is the mpeg sourced from a dvd? If so, what software did you use to do this?

thanks alot,
Craig :)

[-JS-]

M2VRequant (http://www.mrbass.org/M2VRequant.rar) If you want to transcode it (lower quality but faster)
or use CCE / TMPGEnc if you want to reencode it (much better quality, but slower)

[celtic_druid]

You might want to try ReJig instead of M2V requant. It uses the same transcode engine but has built in demultiplexinng, etc. code plus a nice user interface.

As said you could author and then transcode or transcode/re-encode then author. The choice is yours.

Could also try Nic's new QuEnc for re-encoding which uses ffmpeg's libavcodec for encoding.

[-JS-]

Yeah, good point Celtic, I'd forgotten that ReJig (http://www.rejig.org) didn't just do dvds :)