Putting 9 or more DVDs onto one

[Lumpy]

I am a football coach and I would like to be able to put all 9 games on one dvd (7 or 8 hrs of footage). I have MactheRipper, DVD2oneX2,Toast Titanium7. Is this possible and what would I have to do? All games are seperate DVDs. Sorry if this is answered already, I looked but couldn't find it. I am very much a novice at this.

[Frobozz]

Doing this will make the picture quality unwatchable on a TV unless you choose encoding to DivX. Toast 7 will do that conversion. You'll need a DivX capable DVD player but those are inexpensive.

[Ai Haibara]

The general recommendation on these forums seems to limit the amount of video you can put on a blank DVD to about 2-3 hours. Probably double that, if you use a dual-layer DVD. (Though I don't know how well Toast supports those, offhand.)

[jman98]

8 hours of footage would require an average bit rate of about 1050 Kbps. This is slightly lower than VCD bit rates, so you should expect VCD type results - seeing macroblocks during scenes of fast motion, which would be a rather large portion of football game footage I think. I'd recommend no more than 3 hours of footage per game, maybe 4 if you have a very good encoder (sorry, I don't know what tools Macs can use) and know what you are doing and have a single layer DVD to burn to.

[terryj]

With the tools you have, the quality would be VHS or worse,
and two, you wouldn't have much in the way of navigation.

If you have a local reputable video production facility,
I would take them there and have them do it. Less headache on you.
But if you are still brave enough to try, you will need to:

1. rip each Main Feature of the DVDs using MTR.
2. utilize a program like ffmpegx or Mpegstreamclip to
transcode the VOBS ( the DVD Video files) you
extracted with MTR to avi or Quicktime files.

then, 3. you could drag and drop that into Toast,
and let Toast build your DVDs for you, giving you SOME
naviagation abilities. I'd limit them to no more than
4 at a time ( if an hour long), 3 at a time if 1.5 hours long, etc.
that way, you don't sacrifice quality moreso than you already have.

If you have a player that can support Dual Layer discs, then by
all means with Toast 7 or later,
Dual Layer DVD was FULLY supported, and you can use one
of those to get up to 1'd say 6 hours of good quality footage
or 8 hours of VHS or below qualiy footage onto this type of discs.