Is there a way to compress an 8.5 GB DVD to 700 MB file?

Hey John,

Compressing twice does not help, only choosing better compression methods and/or accepting loss will help.

If you want to create a Video CD that can be used in an ordinary DVD player, try DVDx http://www.labdv.com/dvdx/ You will definitely have loss of quality, and VCDs are limited to about 74-80 minutes.

If you will only be watching the CD on a PC and you are not concerned with VCD format or watching in a DVD player, you would get much better quality creating an AVI file. Use a DVD ripper to extract the data from the DVD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_ripper then encode the video using Xvid http://www.xvid.org/ and the audio using a good audio codec like MP3.

You can use aimersoft dvd ripper, it is able to rip dvds to computer in 1:1. it is also capable to save dvd to computer in regular video format. it can compress the dvd video to 500mb in size.

Not like some ordinary DVD rippers, it will not break the video into pieces, it will join all DVD titles and chapters and make them as one standalone video file, thus you can play it in windows media player.

You can download it here

http://www.dvdtopreviews.com/dvd-ripper-review-win...

Here is a guide about how to use it.

http://www.dvdtopreviews.com/how-to/rip-dvd-to-lap...