DVD Shrink for Microsoft Windows

October 21, 2008
by Ethan Hunter

DVD Shrink is a software used to copy DVDs. It is quite useful and provides a lot of benefits. The software allows you to copy even those DVDs, which are larger than the usual 4.7 GB by shrinking them and fitting to the disk of that size (4.7 GB). This software allows the preparation of a backup copy of a commercial DVD. Let us now be a bit elaborate on the functions of the DVD Shrink for Windows.

You can download the DVD shrink software from the internet like any other software applications. Once you have downloaded the software you get several facilities. The main benefit of the DVD shrink for windows is its ability to compress the data to store the commercial DVD in a much smaller space.

The DVD shrink software deletes the unnecessary material and reproduces a copy that is as good as the original. You cannot access the disk itself in this program because the crossover does not allow the program to see the physical drive. You need some free hard drive space to copy the entire DVD shrink for Windows in your hard drive. The copying is sometimes from 4.7 GB to even 9 GB. There is the need to encode it in DVD Shrink and then prepare another 4.7 GB disc image. The built-in burn functionality will also not be usable.

If you want to access your DVD Shrink for Windows, you will need an application that will rip the DVD to your hard drive. There is the system to rip your DVD to your hard drive and a folder will be created with the name of your DVD. There will be a ‘Video_TS’ folder in it. The DVD Shrink for Windows that was ripped to the hard drive needs to be opened up. The ‘Open Files’ button has to be clicked and the ‘Video_TS’ folder has to be browsed.

If the files are on your desktop, you can use the file browser to access the folder ‘My Mac Desktop’. The hard drive displays a few different ways in your browser. To find the name of your disc, if you have stored it in some external disc, you would need to use the ‘/’ and ‘volumes’ options. Like some Mac Users, you may find this very perplexing because when you open the DVD Shrink for windows, there can be some changes in the settings.

To save your work, you have to click the backup button. You can save your work as a disk image which can be burned later on to a DVD Shrink for Windows. You can select any option and you will get an operational edition of the disc you started copying on to a blank disc. What is remarkable is that you get the entire movie on a smaller, regular DVD Shrink for Windows. If you want to know how to burn a disc image using disk utility toy, you need to open disk utility and open an image from the ‘File’ menu. After that is done, select the image in the left hand pane and click on ‘burn’.

You can use this for many other applications as well. This is just what we need to know about DVD Shrink for windows and the ways to use it to create DVD copies in DVD Shrink for windows.

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