I have found that it is very possible to get more than one tv episode (or short hunk of video) on one DVD. The tv episodes I have are in AVI format. I converted them to DVD format with FFMPEGX. On my elderly iMac G3 this took about 5 hours each.
This conversion leaves you with a DVD VIDEO_TS folder, a large MPEG file, an AC3 file and a WAV file. I brought the MPEG file into Sizzle and set up my menus for each one. Sizzle put the new disc together in about 2 hours. The resulting DVD burned nicely and is watchable on just about ANY DVD player I have tried and the image and sound are very nice.
Sizzle also allows ou to add external subtitles. A BIG plus!
A small warning here about Sizzle. Make sure you set the proper video screen size attributes for your various episodes. On my first disc the first episode was in letterbox mode and the secong was full screen. The size of the frist episode took precedence and the second looked really weird.
You can also designate which audio file to use. Since it does a nice job with the audio from the MPEG file I have not experimented YET with using the AC3 file or the WAV file for the audio since my knowledge of sound files is about as complete as my knowledge of quantum physics. I do notice that Sizzle de-mux's the sound from the MPEG and this takes up about half the time in the conversion. Can anybody tell me if using the WAV or AC3 file would eliminate this?
Sizzle in a nice program and I'm sorry that the developers stoped developing it. Maybe if we beg and grovel...?
I hope this helps some of you. If you need any questions answered I'll try to do so. Sizzle has a pretty good built in help file but it could use a bit of expanding.
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