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  1. 20th Jan 2008 01:47 #1
    Gerald Sr.
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    I'm confused on how a movie that is over 2 hrs. was burn on a single dvd. I had bought a movie that was 157 mins. long. I would like to know how was this movie burn on a dvd that is only 120 mins.

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    That 2HR stuff is BS. If it fits, it fits.
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    120 minutes is an estimate for marketing reasons of the amount of video at reasonable quality you can fit on a DVD5. The true limit, if you stay within spec, is closer to 10 hours, however you take a hell of a quality hit for that. At the maximum allowable bitrate for DVD, you can only fit around 65 minutes on a DVD5. Less if you use PCM audio.

    Use a bitrate calculator if you are encoding manually to determine what bitrate you need to make it fit. Expect it to be on the low side, so use a good encoder.
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