Dvd Shrink Alternative For Windows 10

[Peñen Tegtmeier]

Inbacking up some DVD's the ripped ISO file size is over 7000MB is there an alternative linux software, similar to Windows "DVD Shrink" that can compress this to fit on a writeable DVD which is about 4000MB

The 2 best tools I know of that work are dvd95 and k9copy.

sudo apt-get install dvd95 or sudo apt-get install k9copy

installing k9copy on a non-kde system will pull down a lot of dependencies, which may or may not be an issue with you.

The best one out there is k9copy but I've been having issues with it in 12.10 64bit, a good alternative is dvd95 and there's another app called xdvdshrink though xdvdshrink's subtitle ripping capabilities seem broken.

Another option for you would be to run dvdshrink through wine. I have been able to do this rather easily, the only thing extra needed is to list your cdrom in your fstab file and then also add the drive in winecfg as well.

Although the PPA for the most recent release (version 9.9) is for Raring, it works just fine in 14.04. You can add the HandBrake repository for Raring and install HandBrake in Ubuntu 14.04 as follows:

K9Copy was an excellent tool, but the developer had stopped supporting it years ago. Apparently another developer has picked up the project just recently ( -reloaded.sourceforge.net/#start) and released version 3.0.0, if you want to try it. I haven't tried it myself, so I do not know if it will work in 14.04. You will have to build it from scratch, since pre-built packages for the new version are not available yet.

IMHO it would be valuable to include a review of K9copy-Reloaded in @cipricus great post, I recommend using the Trusty/Utopic or Jessie packages from tomtomtom site. Beware that K9copy is Qt based and is best installed in a KDE environment, other environments possibly need to pull in a lot of dependencies.

DVD9to5 (dvd95) - I have tested it by making a backup of two video-dvds as iso files. (They were both larger than 5 GB and maybe protected). There is an option to keep the menus, which I suppose means the structure of the original dvd.

While it may work ok with dvd movies that have only one such track (have to test that yet) the ones that have multiple tracks will put a big problem. These are dvds with more than a single movie. When backing up a dvd with multiple tracks the original menus will be lost because they relate to the other files that will not be copied. Also, subtitles are not usable in this way, and also scrolling does not work. The separate vob files would be playable separately.

In a such case the good part is that you have a better quality of the main video than in the case all the dvd image would have been there (like DVDSrink can do). I noticed in one case that the main video that was selected kept its original size, and all "shrinking" of the image was done only by removing the other tracks. It is not the same image in this way. But if that is not a problem for you (you do not need menus and subtitles) you may use a simple command dvdbackup -F (source for this here: How do I make an ISO copy of a DVD movie?) and in this way get only the main feature which might very well be smaller than 4.7GB

that were not followed. No .iso file was to be found on the desktop or elsewhere. But nor the /tmp files had been deleted as set, so I was able to test those. The full dvd files were found in /tmp/mydvd/BUILD/, but they can be played with VLC and SMPlayer just as ordinary video files, without the original dvd structure of menus. The most severe problem is the absence of subtitles (funny in my case as I was testing with a Japanese movie.)

I have left aside for a while k9copy, which many have recommended in the past, and which, as already stated under this question, is considered the real DVDShrink alternative for Ubuntu.

In Ubuntu Unity and any other non-KDE desktops it will come with a lot more KDE dependencies. But that is the problem with many other KDE applications that at some point may be needed for a specific purpose. If your purpose is to backup DVS-s the way DVDShrink does in Windows, then having some KDE dependencies is not such a bad deal.

As the purpose of the question was to update the answers under the older one, I will try to maintain here an updated answer on the programs that I was able to test, discussing the solutions that have been proposed.

For a while k9copy, which many have recommended in the past, and which, as already stated under this question, is considered the real DVDShrink alternative for Ubuntu, was not supported. But, as the initial project is now inactive, there is a new developer that supports a k9copy-reloaded version. Deb packages can be found HERE. To add a PPA - look HERE:

Handbrake was suggested already but I would put forward another option that may work for you. It is called xDVDShrink Please bear in mind that I have not used it myself. Reading the documentation it seems that you have two options of shrinking, letting the program do it for you automatically, or manually selecting a shrink factor. It also seems to maintain the filesystem of the original DVD.

The downside is, that Vamps is not capable to make DVD backups on its own. qVamps is a GUI, which enables the user to select titles from a DVD, uses Vamps for requantization and create a new DVD. qVamps uses dvdauthor for creation of the new DVD's data structures.

This worked flawlessly when I used Windows. The result is an exact copy, except possibly for some compression, of the original DVD title. Then I changed to Debian Linux and it didn't work at all until now.

Thinking about all the other responses to this problem on the internet, I thought by limiting the CPU speed of the DVDshrink process I might be able to slow the rate at which data is encoded so that it matches the speed at which it can be written to the hard drive.

So I tried DVDshrink again, using CpuLimit for the DVDShrink process. I had to experiment with the slow-down factor, though finally it worked. If I slow down the DVDshrink process to 10% of maximum it will no longer display the memory message.

It is unfortunate that DVDShrink can't be found playable for Linux/Ubuntu. One alternative that I've done is to copy the DVD as an ISO file in my computer and then burn it as it is (without compressing it) onto another (blank) DVD. There are double density blank DVD's out there that you can get. They are more expensive, but for now and until you find another solution, that might work. Back when I had to copy a hard-to-find movie and didn't have DVDShrink, I was using a software called "InfraRecorder" that I found on Download.cnet but I don't know where to find it now. After installing Linux Mint, I discovered that it comes with a software that works exactly as InfraRecorder called "Brasero". Give it a try, hope it will give you the utility that you need.Good luck on your search.

DVD Shrink is a popular DVD backup freeware among Windows users. However, the latest DVD Shrink 3.2 was released in 2004. As a result, user can't use DVD Shrink any more after upgrading to Windows 10 or Windows 11. Haven't been updated for nearly 10 years, users will have difficulties in running DVD Shrink on the latest Windows OS in the end. So you will need to find an alternative to DVD Shrink. In this post, we will introduce the best DVD Shrink for Windows 11/10 systems.

WinX DVD Ripper - The best free alternative to DVD Shrink. It's able to back up DVDs to ISO file, VIDEO_TS folder, MPEG, and convert DVDs to MP4, AVI, WMV, MPEG-4, MOV, and more. It's more powerful than DVD Shrink in ripping protected DVDs, with support to DVDs protected by CSS, UOP, RCE, region codes, Disney X-project DRM, etc. It works well on Windows 10 and Windows 11.

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