Can anyone recommend software for converting a Blu-ray movie to DVD format?
I have a few Blu-ray films that I would like to have on DVD so my children can watch them in their bedroom on a normal DVD player.

I have expermented with a few pieces of software, but wondered if there is a good one that someone can recommend.

Mark

This thread might be useful

http://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php ... dvd+bluray

I haven't tried this, though, as I have no BluRay discs!

Thanks Lise, an interesting read


From my experiments on my Intel 3GHz HT Win XP Pro machine it took about 16 hours of disk thrashing to convert Blu-ray format to DVD-9 ! I don't mind the time though, as I only have a handful of childrens films on Blu-ray.

Mark

Hi Mark

I'm up to about 80 blu-ray movies now and I have tried this. The link Lise gave tells you how to do it.

I know the registered version of DVD Fab Decrypter (v6 with Blu-ray addon) can do it to whatever size you want. Having said that, it will only compress the main movie. It does not do any re-authoring like DVD Shrink can do, unless you want to put each extra on a separate disc.

It also depends on how much you want to shrink it. The average BR movie (no extras) is about 30gigs, shrinking it down to 4.5 gigs or even 9 gigs will be reducing the quality by over 72% for a DL and about 85% for a 4.5gig disc. These are some REALLY heavy numbers and probably not ones you want to be using.

I know a lot of people have tried to convert to other formats such as avi, mpeg, etc but, it still doesn't take away the fact that the video quality will be pretty bad (as will the audio) and it takes a shitload of time on most computers to do.

Hope this helps
Ray

Hi Ray, thanks for the info...


I am only interested in fitting a movie onto a single sided DVD, so that's OK.


I use DVD Shrink... simple and quick for re-authoring / compressing.


I squeezed the 25GB Transformers 2 main title down to 4.7GB by:-

1. AnyDVD HD Rip to PC's Hard Disc
2. Convert Hard Disc mts2 main title using "BestHDSoft Blu-ray DVD Ripper" => 9GB DVD format
3. Compressing 9GB DVD format using DVD Shrink to 4.7GB

The results were good as a first stab even though "BestHDSoft Blu-ray DVD Ripper" had a demo message running though it!


Yep, and when i have more time to explore this I will

Thanks again Ray, Mark