Size Calculations

[Sakuya]

Hi. I'm going to be making a DVD. The DVD+R disc I'm using is a DVD5 with 4.7GB. I was wondering how many half-hour episodes I can put on there. Each episode is around 24 minutes and 20 seconds. Maybe I can put 7 or 6 on each disc? But, I'm having problems with setting the bitrate in TMPGEnc Plus so I can fit them all onto a disc. I can also accept 5 to one disc. Please help me. I have tried the DVDRhelp Bitrate Calculator but I don't understand how to select 5 or 6 video tracks on one DVD+R.

Edit:
Also, how do I make it so that I can play MPEG-2 on the computer? All I use to play normal media files is the classic Windows Media Player.

[ZippyP.]

Add up the running time of your videos and plug that into the bitrate calculator.

You need DVD playing software to get an mpeg2 codec, PowerDVD will install one...even the demo version.

[jimmalenko]

Essentially what you need to do is work out the overall running time of the episodes you wish to fit to 1 disc. Put that into the bitrate calculator and it will tell you what you need to set the Audio & Video to to achieve that. Plug these values into TMPGEnc and you are sweet.

[Sakuya]

Well. I already messed up once. I have these 4 trailers and one subtitle stream I want to add. And after I added them all in DVD-Lab PRO, it says at the bottom 4.67GB. I use the 4.7GB DVD+R discs. Will it work? I don't want to convert the movie a third time!

[jimmalenko]

No it won't work. DVD uses the 1 KB = 1000 bytes system, so 4.7GB in their terms is actually 4.377GB in "proper" computer terms. You could always use DVD Shrink or something like that though.

[Sakuya]

Well, their size numbers are color coded. My first try after I added my movie, it said 4.90GB and it was in red. After another conversion, it said 4.67GB in green.