How to put 3 hours of movie (avi) onto a 120 min DVD

[Carpetmancol]

I have movie that is over 120 mins. Is is possible to put onto 1 (120 min) DVD?

Help is appreviated

[ghoster]

yep...... try a little reading and the mistery will be solved.......

[dsimcha]

In a word, yes.

All you need is some decent software that lets you set the bitrate manually. The 120 minutes means for full DVD quality. When burning stuff where the quality of the original sucked anyhow, I've burnt over 9 hours on a 120 minute DVD. You can fit as much on a DVD as you want, the quality will just suffer. However, if you have these AVIs, I assume they're DIVX or XVID or something and the quality isn't that good anyhow.

As for what software to use, I recommend that you get Avidemux2 to encode the video to DVD format and the audio to AC3 and then get GUI for DVDAuthor to author the DVD. I use both and they work very well.

Note: If you are using a standalone DVD recorder, from what I understand you CANNOT put more than 120 min on a 120 min DVD.

[steveryan]

In a word, yes.

All you need is some decent software that lets you set the bitrate manually. The 120 minutes means for full DVD quality.

2 hours would be about 4800 kbit/s, hardly full quality.

When burning stuff where the quality of the original sucked anyhow, I've burnt over 9 hours on a 120 minute DVD. You can fit as much on a DVD as you want, the quality will just suffer. However, if you have these AVIs, I assume they're DIVX or XVID or something and the quality isn't that good anyhow.

As for what software to use, I recommend that you get Avidemux2 to encode the video to DVD format and the audio to AC3 and then get GUI for DVDAuthor to author the DVD. I use both and they work very well.

Note: If you are using a standalone DVD recorder, from what I understand you CANNOT put more than 120 min on a 120 min DVD.

You're confused, most DVD recorders can record 3,4,5 or more hours of video.

[jimmalenko]

http://members.dodo.net.au/~jimmalenko/AVI2DVD.htm

It's all about bitrates

[reboot]

12 hours on one dvdr: http://www.kvcd.net/dvd-models.html

Thanks for the suggestion about avidemux! Been looking for something like that for awhile now.