trying to get 4avi to become one dvd movie. need some inputs

[trunksu]

I have 4 avi which add up to become 1 movie. Each avi is approx 717mb. Usually I just convert it with tmpengc to a vcd and create a dvd-iso. The problem with this format is that you must have a dvd player that support that format. I want it to convert it so every player that i put it in will be able to play it. what should i do? i am pretty sure that i'll end up creating a dvd but i am worrying about the size of the those 4 avi.

[andyp1]

4 x 717MB AVI's . That sounds like 1 hell of a long movie .
If you covert to VCD mpeg1 using TMPGenc and then Author with TMPGenc DVD Author you can get approx 7 hours of movie onto 1 DVD .

I think if you convert to Mpeg2 The best you will get at low resolution is around 4 hours.

If they are 4 seperate films you can have titles and chapters for each on the DVD.

[ZippyP.]

Using 2-pass VBR with an 1800 average bitrate and 352x480 resolution you can get 5 hours of pretty good video.

[trunksu]

Using 2-pass VBR with an 1800 average bitrate and 352x480 resolution you can get 5 hours of pretty good video.

using tmpgenc right?[/quote]

[ZippyP.]

using tmpgenc right?

[trunksu]

i am following this tutorial. http://www.dvd-guides.com/guides.php?category=othertodvd&name=tmpegenc . i first join all 4 parts leaving me with one big file. usually when i do divx conversion i use virtualdub to extract the audio to wav. should i do it here or should i strictly follow the instructions listed on that tutorial?

[ZippyP.]

Extracting the audio to wav is usually a good practise, no problems doing that here as well.

[rhegedus]

If the AVIs are compressed with the same video and audio codecs, I would joing them with Virtual Dub first to form one large AVI. By doing this, you can then use the wizard in TMPGEnc or the Bitrate Calculator to get the exact bitrate to fill the disk instead of having to guess what the bitrate of four separate avi's should be.

Alternatively, just add up the hours and minutes of all the AVIs and use the Bitrate Calculator to work out the info you need than feed it back into TMPGenc for each AVI.