Burning MPEG to DVD problem

[gimp1124]

Hey,
I recently aquired a dvd burner and was trying to cut down on my disc number by turning my vcds into dvds. i converted the .dats to .mpg and it worked perfect. the problem im having is i cant seem to fit any more on the dvd then i originally had on the vcd. IE: 3 episodes of a tv show on one vcd, now i can maybe squeeze 4 episodes on one 4.7 dvd. i understand it must encode the file to go onto the dvd but must it take up that much space?? anybody know how to make more episodes/.mpg fit on a dvd? hope this makes sense

[monzie]

NO!....an MPEG1 (a la VCD) does NOT need enocding to go onto a DVD....simply drop the mpeg (or m1v and mpa) files into a DVD authorer and the only encoding required is the VCDs/mpeg audio from 44.1khz to 48khz (which your DVD authorer should do).....you should get 6 or 7 VCD's per DVD.

[ZippyP.]

VCD to DVD guide: http://www.digitalfaq.com/dvdguides/convert/vcdtodvd/vcdtodvd.htm

It's best not to re-encode your VCD's as it only causes quality loss.

[gimp1124]

as far as getting them from dat to mpeg (isobuster) ive got that down fine, but as far as the episodes, 3 vcds totalling 7 episodes is coming up 6 gb in Roxio's burning program. can any of you recommend a diff burning software to try?

[monzie]

Why not download a trial version of TDA (30 days useage) and slap the the mpegs into that (you may need to edit the mpegs so that they contain just one episode each....in which case also download TMPGenc...its free for VCD/mpeg1) and then author your DVD with TDA and burn with TDA...plus it will do the audio conversion for you.

http://www.pegasys-inc.com/en/download/tda16.html

http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_download.html