Please Help - Very long mpeg (6hrs.) to DVD conversion

[srpst20]

Can someone give me a hand here? All the diffrent ways I tried doing this the programs kept giving me an error saying that it can not do this b\c the DVD will not fit onto one disc. (including TMPGEnc Plus, I tried to use the minimum options and was still too big) I'm thinking if I can get it into a dvd format I can use dvd2one to make it fit onto one disc. That is the part where I need the help. I'm not worried about the quality. The file size is 10GB mpeg format, and I'm tring to fit it onto one 4.7 DVD+R.

Thank you for anyhelp.

[Goatgod77]

Maybe MPEG-1 vcd conversion is the best option for you.

[srpst20]

and how would I go about doing that? I want to get to a point where I can use dvd2one, but if this is not possible, how do I covert this mpeg to vcd? and then burn it to multiple disks?

Thanks

[bugster]

Try this:

Start TmpGenc, cancel the wizard.

Select you input files for audio and video in the selection boxes at the bottom.

Now click load and open the DVD template (Pal or NTSC as required).
Click load again and open unlock.mcf (in the extras folder).
Click setting and select the video tab.
Select the rate control mode you require (2-pass VBR reccomended, CBR optional).
Now set the bitrate. for 6 hours you want a bitrate of about 1400Kbits per second. This is VERY low for DVD so you may want to consider changing the resolution to CVD (352 * 480/576 NTSC/PAL). This is valid for DVD and allows more bits per pixel at lower overall bitrates, should give a slightly better result)
Select the motion search precision you want to use (normal or high quality reccomended).
Encode

A 2nd option would be to encode to VCD standard, use the VCD template, ensure you are encoding to 29.97fps if NTSC (not 23.97fps as DVD does not support this and pulldown is not applicable to mpeg-1). Change the audio sampling rate to 48khz, encode.



Hope this helps