reducing movies down

[xant14]

I am up to my limit of my external hard drive with movies. 1TB.
This is on my TVPC as I call it, HTPC.
Some of my biggest movies are towards 11GB each. I appreciate that Big = Quality (so the women say) but rather than junk the movies I am thinking of reducing them in size.
What do you reckon is the best and fastest program for this?
And one that retains a good bit of quality.

[cunny]

Xant cant you just redownload them in a BRRip? these are about 4gb max in size

[Bulld0g]

Yea Xant download Blueray rips m8

[xant14]

yeah, suppose that is one answer.. trouble is, I am only on a 7 day thing with vermin, not any 800 day retention doo dah, Was hoping for a different answer. I know dvd shrink does it.. But it takes ages.

[cunny]

Well short of converting them, you can delete them when watched?

[xant14]

Well short of converting them, you can delete them when watched?

Aye mate.. gonna keep the disney and kids stuff, and delete a lot too, but some movies are cracking, and wanna keep a library sort of. The Road is definately getting junked.

[cunny]

Suppose you could have multiple hdds for your movies, 1tb drive is quite large for a movie collection tho

[xant14]

Suppose you could have multiple hdds for your movies, 1tb drive is quite large for a movie collection tho

surprising how fast it fills tho.
I guess I had better start D/L movies of lower size.
Still no-one has recommended a program tho... for reducing what I got.

[Spacerat]

Most of the software that converts for iPods should have a generic option that will allow you to re-compress to a more manageable size.

Any DVD Mobile used to be excellent, but I gave up when they upgraded and the sound sync problems started - they may have resolved them by now.

I'm using DVDFab at the moment to compress to a generic DivX format - takes a bit of messing around to get the quality that you want. It's OK but not that fast - direct from a regular DVD9 to a 1.3Gb movie file with twin-pass encoding is about an hour (two year old Core 2 Quad with 4Gb RAM).

Hope this helps,
Spacerat

[rds60h]

ConvertX will do it fairly quick, why not do that then put on DVD if they are films you want to keep.

[billy2]

what files are they ???? avi, mkv, ios ???

[gmb45]

I am up to my limit of my external hard drive with movies. 1TB.
This is on my TVPC as I call it, HTPC.
Some of my biggest movies are towards 11GB each. I appreciate that Big = Quality (so the women say) but rather than junk the movies I am thinking of reducing them in size.
What do you reckon is the best and fastest program for this?
And one that retains a good bit of quality.

u dirty owl pervo 1 tb of ~~~~ so thats what you do when your not on here got any tai ones

[xant14]

what files are they ???? avi, mkv, ios ???

.mkv are the big ones. I tried dragging one in dvd shrink, but it wouldn't touch it.
The .avis are usually alright size wise.

[calhib]

you can get a mkv to avi converter it takes about 30 mins to convert a film

[xant14]

lo calhib
Would be curious about the converter, If you can give me more info or a link.
Otherwise, as much as I like my quallity movies.. gonna delete, and save space for new.