Multiple movie videos into one DVD

[chewie8008]

Hey guys, I was looking for a program that will allow me to burn 3-4 smaller sized videos onto one DVD. I need it to create as a DVD that will run in a standard DVD player. I know how to burn the dvds and all that. I have 3-4 roughly 700MB videos that I want to put all into one DVD. 700x3=2100MB, a DVD-R is 4.7GB, so space is clearly not an issue. I currently have ConvertXtoDVD4 and it seems as though I can do it with that but would take an enormous amount of time. The program was converting all in real-time. Is there not a way to speed up the conversion without sacrificing quality? Or is there another program that can do this....

[guns1inger]

Assuming these are feature length movies, you cannot put them all on one DVD without losing quality. Period. End of story.

You can put 90 minutes of good quality, and 120 minutes of OK to good quality on a disc, depending on the quality of the source. As your source is not great (highly compressed Xvid/Divx, at a guess), you might get 180 minutes, or two 90 minute movies, to a disc. You should anticipate the conversion to mpeg-2 from Xvid/Divx avi to require an increase in size of 300 - 400% in order to retain close to the original quality, and 500 - 600 % to retain the original quality. ConvertXtoDVD is about as fast as it gets. If you are getting only realtime (i.e. 24 - 25 fps) encoding then you have something wrong with your system.

Honestly, either keep them as AVI files and get a better player, or put one to a disc and keep the quality.

[chewie8008]

Ok, I didn't realize the conversion changed the file size so much. I may just stick to one video per disc. My videos aren't all in AVI, but lets say I convert them to AVI, how do I go about burning them in order for them to be playable in a good player? We have a blu-ray player, so i'm sure it should run it ok. Would I just burn the AVI files as a data disc?

Thanks for the info!

[AlanHK]

ConvertXtoDVD4 is doing what its name implies: converting the video format to DVD (i.e., MPEG2).
This takes a long time, and unavoidably loses quality.

Presumably your videos are AVI files, likely DivX.

Many DVD players can actually play these as-is.
If so, you just need to copy the video files to a disc as data -- use ImgBurn in build mode, add your video files to the file list and burn. Takes only a few minutes.

Use a DVDRW and you can experiment and re-use the disc.

[chewie8008]

I will try that. Thank you very much.

[chewie8008]

Ok lol...one other thing. Do I need to make an iso file or just use the avi as is? I tried it as is...I picked write files/folder to disc, then put each video file contained within a folder into the program. It ran it and my players will not pick it up. Is it because I put the files in a folder? Maybe I need to only put the video files...

[hech54]

Ok lol...one other thing. Do I need to make an iso file or just use the avi as is? I tried it as is...I picked write files/folder to disc, then put each video file contained within a folder into the program. It ran it and my players will not pick it up. Is it because I put the files in a folder? Maybe I need to only put the video files...

Do your players play Xvid/Divx files?

[classfour]

For multiple videos, I author with TDA3.

[chewie8008]

I tried every different way to burn with Imgburn and my player won't play it. It's a Sony Blu Ray player but I guess it just doesn't support those formats. Oh well, Thanks for the help!