All three LOTR movies on one dvd?

[F@tBastard]

anyone thing its possible, without sacraficing too much quality?


Probably not ganna happen. I got the trilogy of another movie on a dvd that turned out great, but LOTR's are probably easily another hour and a half of runtime.

Just curious if anyone has tried it yet.

[yoda313]

Hi,

Nope but if you used vcd quality and stereo only track you MIGHT be able to put it on one dvd.

Kevin

[F@tBastard]

Ya i kinda figured that,



thats the kinda movie want to have at the best quality , not worth it.

Thanks for your reply

[yoda313]

Hi,

Oh yeah one more thing:

If you try it use the THEATRICAL versions. The Extended versions add an extra 40 minutes per movie.

Kevin

[MCAN]

I tried that about a year and a half back. I almost did it. After compressing as much as possible, I got it to about 8.5GB. Of course it looked snowy and had a HUGE amount of compression artifacts, but all 3 were ready to be put to disc. But I don't have a DL drive, nor were they affordable or easily available back then so I abandoned the project.

[bransholme]

It is possible, I have all 5 rocky films on one dvd and they are perfectly watchable. Try converting with tmpgenc using a kvcd template, and it should fit. Cant guarantee the quality tho.

[greymalkin]

ha!

and I thought I was nuts!

I have all 3 Back to the Future movies spliced and joined together, waiting to be burned to DL. On my 27" I probably won't be able to tell the difference or if I do, not by much. I kept it full DVD-res w/DD 5.1 sound track.

This, however, is only 5hr/20 minutes. For all of the FULL LOTR movies you are looking at approximately 11 1/2 hours, over twice as much as all the spliced BTTF movies.

You could fit it on DVD would be using DIVX and finding a player that supports it...i've always had terrible luck encoding files of that size..when they are stereo it seems to work ok, but when it's in surround everything gets all messed up.

but seriously, with movies that long, your muscles will begin to atrophy if you don't get up at least after each movie

[solarfox]

As is often the case, "acceptable quality" depends on what your intended end-use is for such a disc.

Obviously, at that high of a compression level, your picture's not going to look very good on normal TV viewing -- at least not on a TV of any significant size. And yes, that's an awful long time to sit in one place watching a movie.

However... if you've got a cross-country airline flight coming up, that involves changing planes halfway and a couple hours layover somewhere, having an entire trilogy on a single disc would be quite convenient, and the image quality will probably be "good enough" for your portable DVD player's 5-inch LCD screen.

[RDS1955]

I'm thinking about burning all three of the Xtended versions onto a DVD (DVD5 or DVD9; don't kow which one yet...) by coverting them to Xvid, so I can watch them on my Laptop...I got a Dual Layer Burner/Player on mine..



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