problems

andy

I stripped all unwanted stuff from 2 DVDs quot;Reign of Firequot; and quot;Stargatequot;.  The curious thing is that both DVDs re-compiled into 4.69Gs.  Just too big to fit onto a DVD-R.  Is there something I'm missing or doing wrong or just unlucky with my first 2 titles?

it can happen, when a movie is too big, that after striping audio an subtitle tracks you still end up with a set of files to big to fit on the disc.
here's a little check list:
- strip unwanted audio.
- strip unwanted subs.
- strip unwanted menu languages, both in VIDEO_TS.vob and in your main movie VTS as well. that is because sometimes a movie animated menus, for more than one language.

there are other things you can do...
- remove end credits.
- remove main menu (movie only)
- if you want to keep the menu, you can strip vob id's and keep just the main page and the language/subtitles selection menu.

if you've done all that, well then it time to reencode!!!
like in the old divx days...