What size are the dvd's that you rent from movie stores?

It varies per disk. As far as I can tell there are 4 different sizes – Single sided, single layer is 4.7gb approx, Single sided, double layer is 8.5ish, Double sided single layer is 9.4gb, and double sided double layer is just over 17gb but these aren’t common.

I had no idea that disks can be different sizes, but I think I read somewhere that bluray disks can hold more data than ordinary dvds? I don’t have bluray though. I know that there is always just tons of stuff on Kevin Smith’s dvds, like “making of” docs and sometimes more than one commentary. I LOVE Kevin Smith’s movies, who can resist Jay and Silent Bob :-) This is a great question though, sorry I can’t be any help, my BiL always tells me I’m a technophobe lol.

Usually 8 Gbs. You then use DVDShrink to get them down to the 4.7 Gb size of most blank DVDs.

Does dvdshrink lower the quality or is it as good as the original?

@XOIIO Technically, it lowers the quality, but not to a point that you can notice. The only time I’ve really had to work around was a movie that was 4 hours long, and had amazing special effects, was HD, etc. So I had it keep it the regular size and then burned half onto 1 dvd and the other half onto another dvd. But really, unless you’re going to be viewing it on a gigantic plasma-screen with HD out the wazoo, you won’t be able to tell the difference.

Aw sweet, you jsut saved me $30! Thanks you so much!

Who copy’s DVDs on to other DVDs these days? Rip it HD and be done with it.

Our tv’s are old and we don’t have a place to use my projector, and I wan’t to be able to copy the bonus features and menu as well.

@Lightlyseared Sorry, what? I’m not sure I follow – would you mind expanding on that?

@XOIIO You can copy those as well with DVDShrink. It’ll be the exact same as the original, only smaller (in size, not picture.)

YEah, I had to copy it with dvdecrypter, and I’m shrinking it with dvdshrink now because it couldn’t decode the video before.

DVDshrink jsut finished, and there is an audio_ts and video_ts folder(s).

I can only select video_ts with A0A dvdcopy, will the audio be added in?

Ok, so I know nothing about about A0A dvdcopy. So here’s what I do: I get ImgBurn, and select the folder that has both audio_ts and video_ts in it. Example: C:\Users\Papaya\DVD\Police Academy.Then I burn that folder, using the Build function, to DVD.

Cool , already got imgburn, thanks for the tip, I’ll let you know how it works.

@papayalily instead of copying the disc on to another disc you can rip the movie to a hard drive. You can then watch it on your computer, your iPad, iPhone etc or stream to your TV in the living room or any other room. It’s the future.

Yeah, I have done that too, but we don’t have the stuff to stream video to our tv’s, they are really old.

In the house I’m the person with the most advanced and expensive stuff LOL.

@Lightlyseared Lol, oh, I always copy the disk onto my hard drive and then burn it to another disk. Unfortunately, I don’t have nearly enough room on my computer for all the movies I have – I’d need at least 10T just to store what I have now.