Can't put 1 hour and 40 minutes on a DVD

[aparks]

I have tried to burn a video, 1 hour and 40 minutes long, on to 1 dvd and have had no luck. I am capturing a DV. Editing it with VideoFactory 2.0. I have tried to save it as an avi, mpeg1 and mpeg2, and burn it to a DVD-r disc using SOnic MyDVD. It won't allow me to burn, and I can only assune it is because of the length of the video. I was under the impression that a DVD should be able to hhold 2 hours of video. I have had to burn the video on to 2 seperate disc's. Let me know if anyone else has had this problem and can recommend a solution.

Thanks

[franco]

It depends on the bitrate you are encoding with. At 4800 VBR and 9570MBR I can fit 2 hours with pretty good quality. This is footage from VHS captured to digital.

Use the bitrate calculator www.dvdrhelp.com/calc.htm

[Sifaga]

Hey aparks,

I am playing around with DV to DVD at the moment and i suggest you find yourself a guide to follow.

check out the guides on the left hand side under DV to DVD


this is the guide that i am following and am having some success with

http://dvd-hq.info/Compression.html

its taking abit long using this method but i am happy with the result.

I am tweaking some of the settings to get a balance between quality and processing.

[jimmalenko]

Your bitrate will be at fault. Use the bitrate calculator here to work out what you need to set your Average bitrate to in order to fit on 1 DVDR.

[Akiraro]

It's a question of bitrates. I also do a lot of DV AVI -> DVD

Here are my favorite settings:

2 hours - Standard Quality (720x480)
Video: Average VBR 4.8 mbit/s, Max 9.0mbit/s
Sound: Dolby Stereo AC3 192 kbit/s

1h30 - High Quality (720x480)
Video: Average VBR 6 mbit/s, Max 9.0mbit/s
Sound: Dolby Stereo AC3 192 kbit/s

3 hours - Standard Quality Half D Resolution (320x480)
Video: Average VBR 3 mbits, Max 4.5 mbit/s
Sound: Dolby Stereo AC3 192 kbit/s or Mp2 224 kbit/s
(Even at 320x480, the quality is still far superior to VHS)

[puertorican138]

It's a question of bitrates. I also do a lot of DV AVI -> DVD

3 hours - Standard Quality Half D Resolution (320x480)
Video: Average VBR 3 mbits, Max 4.5 mbit/s
Sound: Dolby Stereo AC3 192 kbit/s or Mp2 224 kbit/s
(Even at 320x480, the quality is still far superior to VHS)

Half D1 Resolution isn't 320x480 but 352x480(576). :P

[ktnwin]

I am pretty sure that is has to do with the encoding bitrate (or quality) chosen by Sonic MyDVD software. I don't know much about this software but I am using a few others that are similar. (neoDVD Plus only fit 90mins at best quality, 6500 kbps). To fit 2 hours, I have to encode using TMPGenc.

As others have said, lowering bit rate is a must for the MPEG-2 to fit on the DVD.

[chakrax]

Sonic MyDVD uses PCM for audio, that takes up a lot of room. No way to use anything else. Also, even if you feed it mpeg2, it will re-encode it.

Use an authoring program that allows you to use MP2 or AC3 (TMPGEnc DVD Author is one)

[slamminsammy]

I use sonic mydvd also and I have the same problem as aparks. How exactly can I change the bitrate so I can fit more on the dvdr? Do you change it within sonic mydvd or what?

[LRD]

Here's another idea. Convert to mpeg2 at whatever bitrate suits you, then compress with DVD Shrink, InterVideo DVD Copy or other compression program. I suggest a bitrate that will not exceed 4.4 gbs by too much. I use this approach with a hardware mpeg encoder that works at standard bitrates which often creates a non-compliant DVD. I use TMPGE Author to create the folders, and Shrink to compress. Hopefully, Ulead allows creation of non-compliant folders, i.e. in excess of 4.4 gb.

LRD

[xy]

MyDVD 5.2 allows users to choose PCM or AC3 (192 M bits/s) for audio, and it does not re-encode the MPG2 video when the imported MPG2 video’s bitrate <= 8M bits/s. The software always uses bitraete 7M bits/s when it encodes, so users cannot set bitrates.

If you select AC3 for audio and MyDVD 5.2 encodes the video, a disc is able to hold 84 minutes movie.

If you got your MyDVD 4 with a SONY burner, you can get a free copy of MyDVD 5.2 from http://sony.storagesupport.com/dvdrw/downloads.htm