[kooldraco]

actually 4.5gig is like 120mb over…… here are the specs:
Blank DVD-R 4,489MB = 4,706,074,624 bytes or 4.383GB
Blank DVD+R 4,483MB = 4,700,372,992 bytes or 4.377GB

so basically on a dvd-r you can only write 4,489mb of info which is equal to 4.38gig, even though they advertise as being 4.7gigs they are only 4.38 gigs or 4,489mb

dvdshrink will work with 4,464mb giving it 25mb for chance of error (most programs do this they just don’t show it)

dvdshrink is not hard to use: if u want to backup the movie only do this

• Make sure u have dvdshrink3 beta 5 and put the dvd on you drive
• Open up shrink, hit the “open disk” button and choose your drive
• Hit the “re-author” button and new window will popup
• From your original window under “folder structure” there is a movie folder just drag the main movie to the other window (to the folder structure part)
• You can close your original window, if you have multiple movies under folder structure then delete the ones you don’t need (right click, delete), sometimes they put extra features or a second movie (fullscreen/widescress) in there too.
• Choose the audio and subpictures (subtitles) you want to keep
• Under video just keep it in automatic it choose the percentage necessary for the dvd to fit
• You can also press the analyze button for a deep scan which will take about 25-45 minutes (depends on how long the movie is), this will significantly improve the video quality (I only use it if compression percentages is lower than 70%)
• Hit the backup button and choose a folder to save to and wait for the files to be created

Now burning

• RecordNow max 4.5 is the most efficient program to use (under default settings)
• Create 2 folders on your desktop one called “VIDEO_TS” and the other “AUDIO_TS” (without the quotes and note the CAPITALS and underscore)
• Put all the files created by shrink on the “VIDEO_TS” folder, once there u can use any dvd playing software to see the results before you burn the movie to a disc
• Open up recordnow and choose a data disc (close the wizard), hit the “add files and folders” button and add the 2 folders, yes the “AUDIO_TS” folder is empty, but some dvd players will not work without it, do not just put all the files on the root of the dvd because it won’t work
• Burn and you are done.