CD & DVD 3.40gb's to download a 1hour 21 min film

[bingcro2]

I am using freemake video downloader/burning i am downloading old musical films to mpeg format.the films are only 1.23 hours long on average but take ages when i look at size of file afterdownload it can be some 3.40GB's .i usually get old black and white musical films for around 800-900 on this size film. my dvd player will not play other than mpeg downloads.suggestions pse(dont say get another dvd player!!!

 

[D 8 RCS]

Use DVD Shrink to take out stuff not needed and then to compress the file.

 

[segel]

Or try xmedia recode, plenty of profiles that I'm sure your will find one you need, then for compression of file size just change the bitrate, you can also touch up, colour filter/sparpness and many more things like crop out widescreen bars etc etc.

 

[oneman]

Are you using one pass or two pass recoding ?

 

[bingcro2]

thanks to you all for your replies.I will have to wait until a friend of mine comes, as things like "one pass or two pass" are unknown to me.Hopefully he will be able to put your good advice into practice.Incidently are the necessary progs needed to do shrinking etc freebees
thanks again.

 

[D 8 RCS]

DVD Shrink is freeware, here's where to get it :: dvdshrink.org: FREE Backup Solution for your DVD movies!
Don't bother with the "Click here to optimize your system performance" though.

 

[bingcro2]

thanks D 8 RCS for this will download what looks like a very useful tool thanks again