Best way of fitting TV series (6-8 XviD) onto single DVD

[Buzzcut]

Hi all,

The well strctured DVDRs I've recently downloaded have prompted me to post this message. I've been creating TV series DVDs in a very bad way and I've decided there must be a better method.

Here's what I do at the mo....

I append each episode in VirtualDub and save as one big AVI (~1.4Gb), dump this into DVD2SVCD which gives me one big DVD sized MPG which I then author with TMPGEnc DVD Author setting chapters at the start of each episode.

This obviously makes for a very bad menu structure on the DVD. Also, the appending must be done on keyframes to maintain audio sync so sometimes the first 5 seconds are chopped off an episode...very annoying.

So my question is "is there anyway that you can batch encode but keep each resulting MPG to say 750Mb for a 6 episode DVD??"

I know that DVD2SVCD can only take 1 input avi but can you limit the output size??

Any help is required...

Cheers..

Buzz

[johns0]

In dvd2svcd choose bitrate tab and there you can put the size of output at 750 mb for 1 cd,do this for each time segment as needed.

[Buzzcut]

ok...that's fine for a 6 series DVD, but there are a lot I need to create with 7 or 8 episodes...any other ideas people?

[johns0]

8x520mb=4160+200mb overhead room=4360mb total,so if you have 8 episodes make the file size 520mb in the bitrate setting,simple math.

[Buzzcut]

erm... that's the whole problem. I can't enter my own values, I got 740, 800, 900, 4350 and 4464. If I could enter 520 then it'd be ok..

Thanks

Buzz

[johns0]

I just click in that area and type the numbers i want.

[FuzzyLemming]

I may be missing something here, but why are you appending them all together? just import individual MPG files into TMPGEnc DVD Author (upsample the audio to 48k first, if necessary). then you won't have as many audio sync problems, and have more menu options. And are you using the D2SRoBa plugin for DVD2SVCD? it seems to make it easier for me anyway.

[Phoenix4]

The best way to make these dvd's i think is DVDlab. You can encode your avi's using dvd2svcd(with CCE or TMPGenc), and load the mpg's into dvdlab. In a uderfriendly interface you can maken menu's chapters and you don't have merge them together, it quite an easy process.