In my experience it generally reduces quality more than necessary unless your original movie is wall-to-wall action scenes, telling DVDStyler to make a 5.5GB output file will usually get you one that fits under the 4.7GB limit for a single layer DVD. DVDStyler will let you set an estimated size for the final output file before doing the transcoding step, and reduce video quality as required to make it fit.
If the original DVD that this rip came from was on dual-layer media, the result of the necessary transcoding is quite likely not to fit on a standard single layer DVD-R or DVD+R 6.4GB is a completely plausible size for the finished ISO file. I have used and can recommend the Windows version of DVDStyler and have no reason to believe that the Mac version would not be similarly capable. What you're after is "DVD authoring" software. So you will indeed need a transcoding step, which will be lengthy and somewhat lossy.Īs well as restrictions on encoder and resolution, standard video DVDs have a bunch of weird file length, naming and positioning restrictions that make preparing stuff to go on them difficult with general purpose conversion tools like ffmpeg. Your video is also currently encoded at 720x472, while a standard DVD player is going to need 720x480 (for an NTSC-compatible DVD) or 720x576 (for PAL-compatible). H.264, which is what your videos are currently encoded with, is a much more effective compression standard than MPEG-2, which is the best encoding accepted by standard DVD players. The "Project Info" window shows 6.4g of movie data, even though the m4v files are, again, under 2GB. Posted by infinitewindow at 12:31 PM on March 4, 2016 I've done similar work for other MeFites at a price point they've been happy with. If you have a budget for this project, please consider MeMailing me. DVD Decrypter can rip most discs easily and remove CSS, DVDStyler is a free way to make a simple disc using pre-existing assets, and ImgBurn is what professional authoring houses use to burn playable DVD-Rs.
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If you have access to a Windows PC at all, this is all much easier on the Windows side. This tutorial will show you how to convert and burn MKV to DVD without. You may run into problems burning a dual-layer disc-I don't have any dual-layer data to test Burn with at the moment. Burn is a fairly solid way to burn it back to a disc as a playable data disc (UDF 1.02, ISO9960 format). RipIt is an app that will rip DVD files and remove the CSS in one step. I've found that on a Mac, the best way to do this is to rip the DVD files to your hard drive, remove any CSS copy protection, and burn the VIDEO_TS folder structure back to a DVD-R using Burn. If you are encoding MPEG2 for DVD delivery, make sure you create a custom preset with Field Dominance set to Bottom Firstotherwise your DVDs will be. If you originally ripped these files from a DVD with Handbrake, the best thing to do for a playable DVD-R as bluecore says above is to use the DVD files directly.