2 or 3 dvd films on 1 dvd disc

[SilverDales]

Hi, I know this has probably been answered before and I have done alot of searching in the forums to find the answer but I have drawn a blank. What I want to do is put 2 or even 3 films that I have dl as avi's and then converted to play on my stand alone (won't play VCD or SVCD) on to a single DVD-R disc. This is because I have 2 films as I said that are only 1.5g or there abouts and so don't want to waste discs. Now here we meet my problem, I can find guides that use DVD Shrink in the Reauthor mode which is great but I want to put a simple menu at the beginning so I can pick which film to go to.
If any one can help that wouild be gratefully appreciated.
Cheers

[little Mick]

Ulead Dvd Movie Factory hasa real easy way of creating menus for dvd's....I use it for all my family home movies......mum and dad think I am Just so clever....Easy to use software makes me look good!

[jimmalenko]

Firstly, if you have downloaded the files and they are AVI, what does DVD Shrink have to do with it ?

You need to work out the entire running time of the two or three movies you wish to put on 1 DVD. I would add 5 minutes to the running time to allow space for the menu. Then work out the required bitrate to make this happen using the bitrate calc here. Re-encode all films to MPEG-2 using TMPGEnc and author and create menus using TMPGEnc DVD Author.

[Kingnog]

I think you just confused him

[SilverDales]

You need to work out the entire running time of the two or three movies you wish to put on 1 DVD. I would add 5 minutes to the running time to allow space for the menu. Then work out the required bitrate to make this happen using the bitrate calc here. Re-encode all films to MPEG-2 using TMPGEnc and author and create menus using TMPGEnc DVD Author.

As i said earlier

2 or even 3 films that I have dl as avi's and then converted to play on my stand alone (won't play VCD or SVCD)

Also I know they will fit a DVD cos

are only 1.5g

[Supreme2k]

Use an authoring program to make the menus, then use DVDShrink to make it fit.

check here

[RabidDog]

https://www.videohelp.com/convert.
read, read and read again
How have you converted these films, the bitrate must be horrendously low

[andyp1]

The best way I know to get 3 or even 4 movies on a DVD is to encode to VCD Mpeg1 using TMPGenc . Then use TMPGenc DVD Author which will convert the audio from 44.1k to 48k to make it DVD compliant. You can add menus and chapters for each film .
You can play them back on any DVD player and you can get around 7.5 hours of video on 1 DVD-R