Only getting about 1 hr onto a DVD??

[Guitar55]

I captured from a VHS tape of a concert I had taped from TV. I wanted high quality. I will list some of my settings below. Basically I was getting about 5 mins of video per 2MB AVI. I ended up fitting only about 1 hr or so on a DVD. Can I get 2 hrs of high quaity A/V on a disc? WHat am I doing wrong?

VIRTUAL DUB
Huffyuv 2.2
Video Format 640x480, pixel depth YUY2, size 614400
Frame rate 29.9697
Vertical Reduction - none
Audio set to CD quality

Anything else you need to know?

Thanks,
Dennis

[erayboul]

Are you just burning the AVI file to the DVD?

In order to fit about two hours of video on a DVD you need to encode your AVI to an MPEG-2 file with a tool such as TMPGEnc Plus. You will then need to author your DVD using TMPGenc DVD Author or other similar application. One of the most important numbers you need to plug into TMPGenc Plus is the average video bitrate. There are many bitrate calculators on the web; the one that I use is at http://dvd-hq.info . Look under Utilities/Calculator. If you can find an AC3 encoder, use it. By compressing the audio by a factor of 8, you will allow much more room for the video and can use a higher average bitrate and get higher quality.

You may find that some adjustments need to be made to your video and audio. I believe that your video at 640 x 480 is not DVD-compliant. You indicate that your audio is CD quality. That may be 16-bit at 44.1 kHz. You might need to upsample that. 16-bit at 48 kHz is DVD compliant.

[Tommyknocker]

Have you tried a DivX codec? They usually give very good results with better compression than Huffyuv.

[Guitar55]

I am using TMPGenc and TMPGenc DVD Author, but I thought the reason that I couldn't fit 2hrs onto a DVD was in the way I captured the AVI.

Can I capture in Divx and convert to MPEG2?

[Tommyknocker]

Well, the only way you can increase the amount you can put on a DVD is to lower the bit rate, which of course, will lower the quality a little. Try encoding a short sample and see how you like the new quality.

[Baldrick]

I am using TMPGenc and TMPGenc DVD Author, but I thought the reason that I couldn't fit 2hrs onto a DVD was in the way I captured the AVI.

Can I capture in Divx and convert to MPEG2?

Did you read erayboul post?