How many XVID movies that i backed up myself fit on a dvdr?

[movie freak]

i am considering converting some of my dvd's to xvid then burning to a dvd so i can fit a few dvd's on a dvd-r, i would like to know how many i can get on a dvd-r... i think the quality of some of the movies i download which are like 700mb are quite good.... if someone knows of a good guide for this could they tell me... thanks in advance!

[Gazorgan]

If size isn't an issue (no pun intended, well maybe), assuming 5.1 Audio, then typically 2.

Take that with a grain of salt. There are a lot of DVD's that have 2 GB main titles, while others are 6 GB.

If you shoot for a '2 CDR' then you can squeeze 3/DVDR. You will have to pick and choose to get that (sub 2 hour movies). Some long movies really need to be 3 CDR's to be artifact free. Others you couldn't hit 3 CDR's if you tried (A lot of 80 minute animated Disney movies are like this, not enough there to be that big).

All this assumes no cropping, and 5.1 Audio. It's a LOT of work considering you can backup a DVD to a DVDR in anywhere from 28 to 45 minutes with a 4x burner and 45 to 60 minutes for 2x burner. Is it worth the hassle for $1.30 DVDR blank?

[movie freak]

i see your point... thanks

[RabidDog]

but not much work if you use the new GKIF4U tool on the doom9 website. You can select a custom output size eg 1200mb not as big as a 2cdr but a lot better than 1 cdr.

[xtreemkareem]

Man Gazorgan, not too fond of 1 or 2 CD DivX/XVIDs are ya? NO matter. I'm no audiophile so I say downsample to 128 kbps MP3. Works for me and if you convert that XVID or whatever later to xVCD/CVD, it would be the equivalent of ~16-192 kbps MP2 (since MP3 is better @ lower bitrates than MO2).... but anywho....... often you can crop the black bars and shrink the video size without losing too much detail. And when you use a 2 pass encode, you improve your chances of decent quality. typically, I'd say that if the movie is 90 minutes or so you can make 1 CD with some downsampling and cropping (not too much.) Anything longer than that, I say 2 CDs. I have quite franklyy never seen a 3 CD divx/XVID. Again, it ultimately dpends on YOUR QUALITY PREFERENCE. Somep people grew up on downloaded DivX/XVID avis so a 592X328 1 CD widescreen DivvX w/ 112 kbps mp3 audio is just fine for them.... some people will only settle for hi-quality DVD w/ 5.1 channel AC3 audio. Still a select few believe none of us have really truly experienced video and will not experiance it until Blue ray @ supper hi XGA resolutions with 96 khz multichannel linear PCM audio comes out..... kinda overkill if you ask me. So if you are a fan of 1 CD divx, you could probably squeeze 6+ movies on a single DVD-R.