How do I cut movies to under a gig?

[shadowtheweak]

So i've backed up quite a few of my dvds and they're really taking up a huge amount of space (at least 7 gigs each). My question is how do I just cut the movie part and get rid of the extras? I've only heard of DVD Shrink, but does anyone know of some other programs?

 

[gomerpile]

chainsaw filespliter 50/50 mix should do

 

[shadowtheweak]

thanks.

I also found a guide for DVD Shrink that helps a lot: http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/how_to_copy_dvd_movie_with_dvd_shrink.cfm

 

[skittle]

The most common way, is to transcode them into a more efficient format.

Before I refer you to anything, just let me tell you that this is a road to a long time consuming process. But it can be fun and is really easy once you get the hang of it!

For a general reference, www.doom9.org... read up on everything you can. I can sum it up pretty quick though:

Rip the main movie (many different methods and tools)
Transcode video to x264, XVID, Divx (x264 is recommended) You can also run filters on the video, like a nice denoiser, and deinterlacer, color correction etc...
Transcode audio to AAC/Vorbis/Mp3
Rip subtitles
Mux audio/video/subtitles into a container like MKV or MP4.

search for the program "megui" and read a few guides if you can find them. It provides a nice front end gui for many of these tasks

You can essentially take a ~6gig movie, improve it with some good filters (final output can look better than the dvd source!) and turn it into a ~1.5gb mkv file

 

[gomerpile]

Sry, I use winavi or prowerproducer gold, With LG dvdwriters PPG comes with the disk, or buy nero and PPG comes with that. Or you may try something sourceforge has