Episodes on DVD

[pantsmonkey]

Hay guys

I have 10 AVI episodes that are
30 Min in length
100 - 120 MB

Can I reincode them to DVD resolution and fit all ten episodes just over 5 hours onto 1 dvd ?

any infor on fiting episodes on dvd would be great .


I recently bought some burned seinfeld dvds from EBAY that had over 9 hours of video per disk with menus ?
the quality wasnt fantastic but 9 hours is 9 hours right !

[teegee420]

If it were me, I'd encode them with a video bitrate of around 3067kbps, 224kbps for audio and at a 352x480 resolution. They should look decent and fit nicely with those settings.

[sacajaweeda]

352x240 @ 1803 VBR & 224kbs audio will give you 5 hours of VHS quality video on one DVD. You could drop the audio to 128kbs & pick up another hundred or so on the video bit rate, but I don't see how you'll ever fit 5 hours of video on a DVD with a 3000+ bit rate.

[teegee420]

You are correct! Seems my trusty bitrate calc was set for 2 DVD-R's instead of one. :P I oughta know better.

[pantsmonkey]

I seriously have a 9 (4.7 GB) set of seinfeld dvds

180 22 minute episodes that equals 7.3333 hours of video on each dvd ?

how the hell can this be possible ?

and will converting a 100 - 200 meg avi @ 30 mins per episode to mpeg really blow the size out for the 10 files from 2 GB to 10 ?

thanks for the advice

[sacajaweeda]

A single-layer DVD-5 actually can hold over 9 hours of VHS-quality video.

[pantsmonkey]

Okay i cannot load the AVI files in DVD2SVCD and it crashes damn bloody avi

anyway ive tried TMPGENC it loads fine but now i can set the Video to bitrate to 1803 but the audio bitrate is in kbits ? what it 224 KB in Kbits ?

cheers

[sacajaweeda]

There should be a drop down box you can select your setting from on the audio tab in settings. 128, 160, 192, 224, 256, etc. Been a while since I used TMPGEnc but I think that's right.

[tbird2340]

Is there anyway you can go through how to do this step by step through TMPGEnc? I have Seinfeld ep's that I want to burn on DVD as well but I'm cluess on how to use TMPGEnc.

Most appreciated!