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Welcome to the forums. First of all, sorry to nitpick a little, but "rip" is the wrong term to use. You captured video or recorded it, but you did not "rip" from your VHS tapes. Ripping is used specifically to refer to copying from disc and nothing else. Using the wrong terminology is often very unhelpful and while in this case we do understand what you mean, there are various other terms I've seen people use incorrectly in forums and they only cause the follow up posts to provide wrong information since the original poster did not correctly describe their situation with the right terms.
Well, you can compress audio, but we don't know what format your original audio is in. If it's AC3, you can use a lower bit rate by re-encoding but that won't help much. If your audio is PCM, then converting it to AC3 will save a lot of space. A program called BeSweet (there is also a GUI frontend for it called BeSweet GUI) might be helpful here. DVD Shrink can't compress audio at all, which makes me suspect that you might be using PCM audio on your DVDs. There is no easy way to do this. You'll have to demux the audio and video, re-encode the audio and then author the DVD. A program called GSpot might be useful in figuring out what kind of audio you have. Since you provided no details of any settings you used, it is pure speculation that your audio is PCM, but it does explain your results.
You can always use a free MPEG-2 encoder like HCEnc to re-encode your video to a lower bitrate and save space. There should be various guides on the internet on how to do this.
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