Controlling Output Size?

99% of the time my output with CCE 2.66 has been 4.32GB which leads me to believe adjusting the output to a higher number would give equally consistant numbers. And if it was a little off, you could always run it through shrink again to remove a sub track (if you didnt already). This is without the half-d1 extras option (I'm yet to test it). And I dunno which audio tracks youre talking about, but if you leave a 700MB DTS track AND the 400MB DD track (plus additional 200MB commentary tracks) you're asking for trouble. Kill Bill is a good example of an easy compress. The image is crystal clear and high bitrate so recompressing will give best results.

@Joergen The only audio track I kept was the 5.1 English, choosing to remove both the DTS (which I always shed given the high filesize) and the French (don't speak it -- don't need it!). <99% of the time my output with CCE 2.66 has been 4.32GB which leads me to believe ADJUSTING THE OUTPUT TO A HIGHER NUMBER would give equally consistant numbers. And if it was a little off, you could always run it through shrink again to remove a sub track (if you didnt already). This is without the half-d1 extras option (I'm yet to test it).> What output are you referring to? Is there an option in DVDRB already to do this? (I've looked but didn't find one... perhaps I missed it somewhere if this is the case.) Or does CCE 2.66 have one? Since DVDRB makes tons of little video files rather than a handful of big ones, would there be an option to do this concerning batch processing?

Add CCETargetSectors=2260007 to the rebuilder.ini under [Options] ie: [Options] DynamicBitrate=0 CCE=1 BackColor=12632256 RemoveDTS=1 CCETargetSectors=2260007 That gave me about 4.36GB on a test I did.

@Joergen Thank you! I'll give that a run and see what happens!

writersblock29, I think it should also be mentioned that the 1/2D1HalfBR option is in its infancy, may bear further tweaking, and may only be a temporary measure. If you find there is a sector filesize tweak that works consistently for all different sources please share it with the group.

@Joergen <Add CCETargetSectors=2260007 to the rebuilder.ini under [Options]> Didn't work! I wound up with a runtime 9 error at the end of rebuilding. I just removed it, and will try again with the same settings tonight to see what happens with the runtime error. Thanks for the suggestion, though!

No runtime error... but I think I know what caused it before; I was using Decomb to deinterlace while also reducing the size of my extras to half D1. This time around, I left the deinterlacing off (still trying for half D1 on extras), and specified 2260007 as my target sectors. 4.15 Gigs. Doh!

For those who have followed this thread, and may have also shared the issue of undersizing with DVD Rebuilder: Opening the rebuilder.ini, and entering the value CCETargetSectors=2297888 my project came out as 4.36, spot-on. I understand that the possibilty of oversizing is pretty high doing this, so those who are thinking of trying it might profit from setting this value down a bit... say, 2290000 or so... until you find what works. I haven't tried any other movies using the 2297888 setting -- so please don't consider that value carved in stone -- but it may give you something to try! (I disabled the half D1 encoding option when I came up with a 4.36 copy, BTW.) There still seems to be some audio dropout and stuttering issues, however, that occur within certain places... I've burned to several different brands of re-writables -- as well as a Ritek recordable -- and these problems occur in exactly the same places (very repeatable) in all disks, so I'm sure it isn't a media issue. Any help I can offer from my files, I'll gladly provide! Cheers! WB29

I have done 4 movies to date (Matrix 2, Matrix 3, Priates of Carrib, Indy Last Crusade) and I have used TargetSectors=2260000. The movies are consistently 4.36 with CCE SP 2.67 and RB .44. I repeatedly created the backup for Pirates starting at 2290000 (which came out substantially to high) and walked it down in 5000 sector increments until I got to 2260000. I must state though that I am doing movie only, having stripped it out with DVD-Shrink set to no compression.

Just done Kill Bill region 2 PAL with DVD-RB 0.45 I used all the default settings for CCESP2.67 trial The files came out at 3,921,294 bytes which is way under sized. Still looked great though ;) Anything I might be doing wrong. I didnt choose to half bitrate the extras.