How can I fit 3 hours of video on a dvd(single layer)

[bg63s]

The video quality isn't so great since it was taken from a vhs recording of an event. Anyway to fit all of it on a single layer dvd, its in xdvd format.

[zoobie]

95% of most questions can be answered with a search but I'll be nice and say dvdshrink

[Sifaga]

what is your source ?

[bg63s]

Well the event was copied on vhs

So i recorded to dvd and take the vro file and turned it into an mpeg. Then edit it with sony vegas. After that i had to convert to xdvd with tmpgenc.

[Baldrick]

but isn't xdvd standard dvd in tmpgenc? just lower video size/resolution.

did you try choose dvd ? and be sure to use compressed audio like ac3 or mpa/mp3. if you use 192 kbit/s audio the video bitrate should be around 3100 kbit/s...you could lower the video size/resolution to 352x576.

[bg63s]

Will the quality suffer alot???

with dvd shrink, I would burn the dvd to dual layer then copy it into a single layer format???

[Baldrick]

it's better to convert to correct size directly instead of dvd shrink it.

[bg63s]

so it depends on how I convert it with tmpgenc 3. They don't have the size 352x576. Avg video bitrate is 9199, i should lower that to 3100?

[bg63s]

am i better of just going with a dual layer dvd, cause there is alot of dancing in the video so i would think it needs a good video bit rate