How to Compress Four to Five movies onto One DVD-R 4.38gb blank disc ?

[351shaker]

Hi,
A friend forwarded me a couple of DVD's which included 4-5 movies on each 4.38gb disc. It would be appreciated if a member could advise me in plain english steps ( I am retired and a 'P' plater with PC's ) . I think I probably have some of the software required but am unsure how to utilise correctly which includes : Nero ver.10, DVDFab ver. 8, AVS4YOU, 'Liteon #iHBS Blu-ray, Lightscribe, DVD burner and 'Toshiba DVD HD-Rom ' player.

Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
Dennis.

[SLK001]

What is it that you want to do? Compress 4 or 5 movies onto one DVD-R disk? My advice - DON'T DO IT. There is no earthly reason for that kind of "packing it in".

Unless the movies are 25 to 30 minutes apiece, the conversion quality would be worse than crap. Disks are cheap nowadays, so there isn't even a financial benefit to do this.

And what is a 'P' plater? Remember that this is an English only board, so we would appreciate English terms.

[jman98]

I'd advise taking a look at the DVDs and look at what's on them. Do you see a VIDEO_TS folder? If not, then it's not DVD format. You might have 4-5 movies in Divx format for example. Such a disc would only play on PCs and a DVD player that supports Divx.

It is possible to compress 4 or5 movies down to fit on a single DVD, but quality will suffer. However quality is relative. I have a friend who watches TV programs in absolutely abominable quality that he records over the air from a weak signal with plenty of dropout and they are fine for his needs. It could be too that the DVDs are dual layer discs, which gives you more space and lets the quality increase a little over using a single layer disc.

Please don't speak Strine as nobody outside of Australia will understand it. Fortunately the "... and a 'P' plater with PC's" statement is not relative to your post, but as an American who actually has traveled the world and can speak more than one language I admit that I am absolutely baffled as to what you were trying to say there.

[marioval]

I guess P Plater means inexperienced.

http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/P-plate

[jman98]

Thanks marioval. In that case it's not Strine but Brit slang.

[netmask56]

No he is referring to the drivers license regime in Australia where you get your"P" plates that must be displayed on your car after passing the driving test - (you previously had L plates when you were learning) you must have a blood alcohol reading of zero for 12 months and there are limits to the number of passengers in the car etc. If you break any laws you can go back to "GO" and start all over again. So not British (maybe they have a similar regime) but a local expression for a newbie

[jagabo]

People putting 4 or 5 movies on a DVD are using quarter D1 format, 352x288, like is used on VCD.

[351shaker]

Thanks Fellas/Mates (or is it 'buddies') and to 'netmask56' for his/her aussie explanation of 'P' plater and 'marioval' your spot on, don't know about 'SLK001' letter P is in the english alphabet !
As suggested, undertaking this procedure is not advisable so will give it a miss. Thought it may have been an easy way of forwarding to my Grand-Kids but they probably wouldn't have the software to convert to normal DVD !
Thanks Again.

[jagabo]

DVD supports quarter D1 so it would play in any normal DVD player. Just with low resolution and increased artifacts from too little bitrate.