ImgBurn/DVD Shrink: Shrinking files that refuse to be shrinked

[phil19]

Me too I have digital-video-broadcast .mpg files in the 5-6 Gb range, that I want to shrink to save on a single-layer DVD.

After reading many posts here, I hope I did carefully, it seemed to me that the most simple would be to use ImgBurn to create on disk a DVD image that would take any space it needs, then shrink this image in DVD Shrink, and then burn the shrinked image.

Problem is, ImgBurn does not work the way some of these posts let believe it should. If I use an ISO9660 setting, ImgBurn does not accept to input any file larger than 4 Gb-something. If I use the UDF setting, ImgBurn does accept larger input files. And it "successfully" creates a large, single .iso file that contains everything. But when I want to input this file into DVD Shrink, it says it cannot process an "unrecognized UDF file".

Anybody using ImgBurn to create a DVD image from files larger than 4 Gb, what settings do you use to:
a) input these large files in ImgBurn,
b) have the DVD image accepted by DVD Shrink?

Or did I miss something?

Thank you,

Phil, desperate mouseman

[Anole]

I know this is not much help, but I have made 5-8gb DVDs these ways:

1) with DVD Labs and just too much source material, sometimes my disc comes out in the 5 to 5.5gb range.
I've used DVDshrink to whip it into line.

2) yesterday, I took a 3.5 gb 544x480 mpg file that had been giving me trouble, and ran it through WinAVI
My intention was to up-convert it to 720x480 in hopes that it would steam roll whatever hidden glitch the file contained.
I use too high a quality setting, and the output was around 8gb.
Fed it back through DVDshrink, but both times the output file was just 7mb too large to fit any of my blank DVDs.

I guess the only thing I could suggest, assuming you don't get a fix for ImgBurn, is to author it some other way.

[svcdmaker]

If the warning from dvdauthorgui does not keep you from authoring a disk over 4.7 GB, then you could:

use the option to save the video out of VRD with blank NAV packets
add this video as a title to dvdauthorgui and save to your hard drive
dvdshrink will read this and you can shrink from there

Karl

[emale]

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/ReJig