Burning My First DVD

[Lil_Flac_3]

I would normally use the search bar, but Im really pressed for time today and figured this would this would save a little bit of time.


Im burning a DVD for my nephews of Futurama Season 1 which contains about 9 episodes- 21 mins each. They're AVI files and the folder takes up about 1.54 GBs.

Why is it that I have a 4.7 GB DVD+R and I can only fit about 4 episodes that are 20 mins each in it? Is that normal? I know it takes room to build the DVD menu and stuff as well, but THAT much?!

Im using both Aimerisoft (I believe its spelled) and Daniusoft DVD Creators. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks

[Baldrick]

Because dvd video requires higher file size to get similar quality as the avi files.

But you should be able to fit more than 80 minutes/dvd, around 2-3 hour with decent quality. Try other better all-in-one dvd converters like dvd flick, avstodvd or convertxtodvd.

Or just get a cheap dvd player with avi divx/xvid support.

[jman98]

What is your goal? To burn 9 AVI files to a data disc or to convert them all to DVD format? Your tools are obviously doing the latter. Tools that do that kind of conversion for you have default settings to try to preserve quality so they only allow a relatively small amount of video on a disc. Perhaps another tool will give you more control over the bit rate and let you set it lower if you wish to put more videos on the disc, but as I don't use any "consumer friendly" tools I will let those with more experience suggest alternatives. ConvertXtoDVD does come to mind though.

[neomaine]

lil_flac_3,

That's because the authoring software is re-encoding it to DVD specs. Your AVI files are not DVD compliant and are probably divx/xvid at a much lower bitrate like 1-1.5k/s. The software, in order to keep similar quality, is re-encoding to MPEG2 codec at somewhere in the 4-5k/s. Quite simply, MPEG2 (dvd) is just not as efficient as MPEG4 (divx/xvid) or the newer H264.

The formula is simple, even though I didn't do the math for the exact numbers above , RunTime x Bitrate = Filesize.

If you want to fit everything on one DVD you'll need to burn it as a data disk and not as DVD video. If your nephew has a DVD player that supports the container (avi) and codec (divx/xvid?) your files are in, he may be able to play them directly as AVIs.

[filmboss80]

Do yourself a favor. Save yourself loads of time and frustration by simply buying the DVD set for your nephews.

http://www.amazon.com/Futurama-Vol-1-Billy-West/dp/B000083C6W

An added bonus it that it's the legal way to do it.