DVD Shrinks allow the user to select compression level for each video track separately to obtain the desired disc size, which is usually below 4.7GB. The software is capable of producing either an ISO image of the ripped DVD, or a VIDEO_TS folder for further processing, viewing or burning.

With DVD Shrink, you can reduce the size of the DVD in two ways. One is to remove content from the DVD eg. Remove extra features, and the other is to keep the entire original content, but reduce their quality and hence, file size.

DVD Shrink is the a free software that allows you to "shrink" existing DVD movies by removing content or reducing their quality so that they will all fit onto a single 4.7 GB DVD recordable. This is the first software of this kind that is actually free.

Most DVD titles are designed to prevent you from making copies. The first preventative measure is encryption. Most DVD titles are encrypted, which prevents you from either copying them to your hard drive, or if you manage to do so, being able to play the resulting files.

The next problem is not so easy. Most DVD video titles are simply too large to fit, without modification, onto a single recordable DVD-R disk. DVD Shrink overcomes this problem by modifying or "shrinking" the data from your original DVD. Last but not lease it's free.