[MPlayer-users] How to backup a DVD with reduced video quality?

[ephemeron at softhome.net]

On 30. July 2004 at 3:24PM +0200,
Gilles <gilles at harfang.homelinux.org> wrote:

[...]

> 'tcrequant' (part of the 'transcode' tools) allows to reduce
> the video rate of an MPEG2 file.
> 
> [In order not to have noticeable loss of quality, the resulting
> data rate should probably be more like 4 Mb/s (I didn't not
> test smaller rates, the purpose being to fit a 9 GB DVD on a
> home-recordable media).]

I've heard that there are now dual-layer DVD blanks, which should
make such procedure unnecessary.