Compressing Audio for DVD-R

[Hoagie_one]

OK, so I took 13 episodes of this anime I got. I used procoder to change them from avi to mpeg2 for dvd, it made them like 15 Gigs. I used tmpg to author them with a simple menu, then dvd2one to shrink it down. Here's the problem. It's having a hard time shrinking it down to 4.3 gigs to burn it. Got it down to about 4.8 after several runnings.

So I go and get dvd shrink to see if it can do it and it doesnt want to compress enough either. It's then that I notice that it's the audio thats eating up more than half to space. Any idea how to compress audio for burning to a DVD? 3 gigs of audio files for 4.5 hours of anime seems a little excessive. Especially since its just 2 channel sound recorded from a cable tv signal.

thanks

[Perro Grande]

Some authoring software allows you to author a DVD with an mp2 compressed audio stream instead of a straight PCM wav file. The downside to this is that not all set-top dvd players can handle this type of audio file.

Another option would be to convert to a 2-channel AC3 audio stream. This will probably get you sufficient compression to fit everything on to one DVD-R and is more compatible than the mp2 option. The downside to this is that some of the free tools available to create AC3 files do not create 100% compliant AC3's.

[Hoagie_one]

what software would you recomend for either making the ac3's or mp2's

[energy80s]

Not sure how you have ended up with 3 Gigs of audio from a TMPG encoded MPEG file. Normally TMPG outputs audio as MP2. Most DVD authoring programmes will accept this and all players (except for American models) will play it fine. If your audio is a wave file, it will need converted to mp2. Probably the handiest way to do this is to load your MPG file back into TMPG and click on the audio only elementary stream output. Select 224kbps (or whatever) MP2 out and click on start. This will give you an MP2 file to mux with your existing video file. In future, make sure that you have MP" audio rather than wave audio selected in TMPG before you encode your video files.

[THEXFILES]

you could keep all your files the same without shrinking them and keep the good audio sound, and make it to 2 dvd's instead of compacting them to try to fit on one and loose quality.vob splitter will split vob files.