How long home video DVD can be? Possible to be more than 2h?

[DaHan]

I know it's said to be 2 hours. However, I can make some more than 2 hours movie in one dvdr (dvd2one), so I think it should be the same thing for home video. I am wondering how long it can be?

Can you make two or three movies in one dvdr if I don't care about qualtiy? I tried this once (ifoedit-dvd2one), but dvd player can't play more than 2h, there's no problem to play those vob files in my computer though.

What's the best software to make some home video from a digital camcorder? Maybe, there's no big difference to capture, but when I do the editing, pinncale 8 is way too SLOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW.

Thanks for the help.

[chazzie]

I've made a home DVD that was 2h 15min, works perfectly. Just set the bitrate low enough.

[Gil T Pleasure]

I am wondering how long it can be?

It depends on the bitrate and resolution. If you set your resolution to quarter resolution mode (352x240 for NTSC, 352x288 for PAL) and your bitrate to 2Mb/s then you can cram as much as 6 hours on a given DVD disc [edit] and still be DVD compliant [/edit].

[DaHan]

And it's playable in the dvd player? Or, I have to use my computer to play it?

For the movies or already made home video, there's no way I can set resolution, just make them together and dvd2one?

Thanks.

[Tommyknocker]

Yes, it will play in your player. For all intents and purposes, it will be a DVD.

For the movies or already made home video, there's no way I can set resolution, just make them together and dvd2one?

If you are talking about the ones still on tape, just capture them to your computer, load them into TMPGEnc's wizard, adjuust the bit rate, make a DVD format MPEG-2. Use CopytoDVD to burn onto disk.

If the movies are already on DVD, your may want to give DVDShrink a good look. It lets you decide how small to make your DVDs. Just remember, the lower the bit rate, the lower the quality.

[DaHan]

Yes, it will play in your player. For all intents and purposes, it will be a DVD.

If you are talking about the ones still on tape, just capture them to your computer, load them into TMPGEnc's wizard, adjuust the bit rate, make a DVD format MPEG-2. Use CopytoDVD to burn onto disk.

If the movies are already on DVD, your may want to give DVDShrink a good look. It lets you decide how small to make your DVDs. Just remember, the lower the bit rate, the lower the quality.

So, it will be .vob file even it's in the VCD quality?

I mean it's already on DVD. I think DVDshrink and dvd2one do the same thing. Just wondering what will happen if I use them to make more than 6 hours video together. Not playable on dvd player and can be used in the computer? Did anyone ever try this? I think it's very useful if you want to recorder some old vhs video to dvd.

[wizzy]

i have made a 7.5hr! DVD with TV episodes...(mpg1 with 48khz audio)
you can try this...instaed of mpeg2 put mpg1 and you saved some space for more...the quality is great not changed...

[handyguy]

I use a Panasonic e30 & can do a 4 hour disk that looks very decent. Just use LP mode.

[Faceman101]

I suggest using 352x480 with a bitrate around 2.5-3. With that you can fit 4+ hours onto a DVD and it will look alot better than the VCD resolution.

[DaHan]

Thanks for the great inputs. So, there's no 6 hours limitation! I will get my hand on this. Here's the steps I will do:

1, Use ScenalyzerLIVE to get .avi video from dv.
2, Use Tmpgenc plus to convert video to mpeg2.
3, Use Tmpgenc dvd author/ to finish dvd home video.
4, Burn it by using recordnow max.

I am doing the right thing so far? I want the fast speed.

[Jolard]

The key here is that there is no time limit, there is only data file limit. The time limits shown on media etc are only examples and can be ignored. The key is just making sure that all your files are within the DVD Spec and fit within the space available on a single DVD (4.7 GB). If you have bad enough quality, you can easily fit 6 hours. For myself, when capturing home movies, I don't like to go longer than about 1 hour 40 minutes before I start noticing quality reduction.

[Vejita-sama]

Yeah there's no time limit. You can drop the bitrate as low as you want get more and more time on each disc. But quality also goes down. I've never really understood the desire people have to get 8hrs+ on each disc or a 130min on 1 CDR. Media is cheap, just use two

With that said you can drop down to the 'VCD standard bitrates' (video=1150kbit/s & audio=224kbit/s) and get 430min/DVDR or just over 7hrs. But the quaility will be pretty low. But if you don't mind that... It's a personal choice.

[Gil T Pleasure]

Hmm, I know there is a max bitrate to be considered DVD compliant but I never realized there was no min bitrate.

[vance43211]

u can burn it as a dvd vr disc

then use can burn up to 6 hr on a disc with decent quality

neodvd (and or plus) can do such a thing

[DaHan]

Yeah there's no time limit. You can drop the bitrate as low as you want get more and more time on each disc. But quality also goes down. I've never really understood the desire people have to get 8hrs+ on each disc or a 130min on 1 CDR. Media is cheap, just use two

With that said you can drop down to the 'VCD standard bitrates' (video=1150kbit/s & audio=224kbit/s) and get 430min/DVDR or just over 7hrs. But the quaility will be pretty low. But if you don't mind that... It's a personal choice.

Sometimes, the video source isn't that great, and it's a waste just to have 1 hour video on a dvdr. Also, I think it's cool to watch something more than 4 hours without changing disk.

Maybe, there's no limitation to make one 10+ hours, do you think the dvd player can handle it?

[dcsos]

I CAN'T IMAGINE THAT from NEW DVTAPE or DVD source

but for a copy of a VHS TAPE WHY NOT
It looks good to me!
when you put no more but up to 4 HRS because that captures all that a sub-HQ or 2nd generation VHS had to begin with!

But of course all our VHS's at home are store bought ORIGINALS RIGHT FOLKS? LOL Or course I could be talking about baby's first steps or a legal VHS copy of some TV show

[Bob W]

I think NeoDVD Plus will let me do about 4.5 hours at the "good" setting. I just capture directly as DVD compliant mpeg2 then NeoDVD takes another hour or less to do it's thing then a half hour to burn at 2x.