no room on my hard drive

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  1. fasfrank

    fasfrank Active member

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    I downloaded DVD shrink 2.3 and it wants to work but I can't seem to make any room on my hard drive. My HD is partitioned into two areas, C and D. C is 15.01 gigs with 7.33 gigs free, D is 91.77 with 78.67 free. When I first tried DVD shrink it had a green bar that said I had 4388mb to work with. Even after I removed programs, did a disc clean and defrag, shrink still shows 4388mb. Why can't I get anymore disc space? I even deleted all but my last restore point.What is shrink looking at?
     
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  2. koola

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    Shrink is looking at the space available on your blank DVD disc and not at your Hard drive.
    You will see the size bar change as your select/de-select compression values and extras on your Disc.
     
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    Thanks Koola, Still thinking about that...lets see 4388mb thats about 4.388 gigabytes. When I do the 10x compression on this particular movie and remove all the extras Im still aroubd 4600+ mb. Can I remove anything else? Well I managed to get the thing onto my D drive in the form of a bunch of files with the DVD decrypter and now I need to compress them? can I get those files into shrink 2.3 and compress them or do I have to to shrink them off the disc? Still think I can't get the thing small enough unless I use "still pictures" on the shrink program and that doesn't sound right.
     
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    dvd shrink will automatically figure out the compression for you to fit on a dvd-r. If you use shrink, shrink will decrypt and compress so that you don't need to use decrypter unless you want a 9 gb folder on your hard drive.

    To compress files from your hard drive, open shrink and the click "open files" and open the video_ts.ifo to do the quick analysis. You can then get rid of whatever extras and so forth to get it to fit. As you change compression of different things, look at the compression of the movie, and you will see it becoming less and less in the automatic mode.

    I highly recommend Oriphus' guide as it is very detailed and just what you need.
    http://www.chrismccann.co.uk/user_guides.htm

    Oh yeah, 1000mb does not equal 1 gb because of that binary thing (1024).
     
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