SmallShrink 

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

SmallShrink 0.2 is available for download. I feel that this is a big, big improvement on the initial 0.1 release as it has numerous enhancements in the user interface.

• No longer starts a separate terminal window for the processing
• DVD target size can be specified
• Multiple titles can be extracted from a DVD and placed into the reauthored DVD (to do this, list them in the DVD titles box, separated by spaces. For example “3 4 5 6”)
• Fixed the bug that failed to handle DVD input and output paths containing spaces.

Full usage instructions to follow soon. Hopefully.

SmallShrink 

Sunday, November 22, 2009

I am pleased to announce the first release of SmallShrink.
SmallShrink extracts the main movie from a DVD, and reauthors it to fit onto a 4.7Gb single layer DVD-R. It is inspired by (but currently is nowhere near as functional as) the legendary DVD Shrink application for Windows, with a little help from the various Linux DVD9->DVD5 guides around the internet.

The initial v0.1 release provides a simple interface to a number of command line tools which do the extract, shrinking and reauthoring. It certainly can’t deal with every DVD, and works on about 80% of DVDs I’ve tried it with. More recent, heavily-copy-protected DVDs present the most trouble.

This release is very much experimental, and I welcome feedback – what DVDs does it work on, what doesn’t work? What would make it more useful? I am not yet sure of the final direction it will take – it may stay as a standalone application, or may become part of SmallDVD.

SmallShrink 0.1 requires an Intel Mac, running Mac OS X 10.6

UPDATE: Now also supports Mac OS X 10.5

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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Desperate to know the latest information about the exact status of SmallDVD, SmallNews, etc, development in microscopic detail? No, I thought not. But if you were, you could follow twitter.com/smalldvd