How many AVI's on 1 Disk

[Squid_uk]

On my sytem i currenlty have about 201 avi files that are about on average 45mins in length and 130mb in size

What i am looking to do is put as many of these on a dvd without losing quality but not using to many disk

What would be my best method?

[VCDHunter]

Either do them as VCD or half d1 with 48k audio. You'll get loads in as VCD standard, maybe as much as six hours.

[ROF]

You should be able to fit 33 of these 130MB AVIs on a single layer disc or 64 on a dual layer disc.

[drjtech]

To expand on what ROF said, if your DVD player is capable of playing these AVI files, then you can simply burn the files to a DVD data disk without losing any quality at all. It will take about 7 DVDs to hold all 201 files.

The alternative is author the files to DVD video, as indicated by VCDHunter. Since you have about 150 hours of video, cramming 6 hours on a DVD will require about 25 DVDs.

-drj

[Squid_uk]

thanks guys drjtech when you say bout my dvd being capable do you mean if i burnt them stright to a dvd disk still as avi files or in VCD format on a dvd?

[ROF]

Your player must be capable of playing the file format you choose to encode your files when burnt. VCD is MPEG1 so your player must support this.

[Squid_uk]

i know it supports VCD, so r u sayin i can burn VCD files to a DVD Disk?

[ricky1756]

yes, vcd is dvd compliant, but reencode your audio from 44000 to 48000

[kush]

Or perhaps drjtech was referring to burning as Data DVD, and playing on a DIVX/XVID capable player (ie: Philips 642[?], the Kiss models, and probably others)...? No reencode, so no quality loss..With avi -> vcd there will be no matter how good the encoder. Although, with the proper use of filtering, it (vcd convert) could still look fairly good.

[drjtech]

Yes, that is what I was referring to. Depending upon your DVD player and the codec used in your AVI files, you may be able to burn the files as-is and play them.

The easiest way to find out is to just try it. At best it will work, at worst you have a backup copy of some of your AVI files.

-drj

[Squid_uk]

thanks again guys

do you know of any guides you could reccommend i should use?

[ROF]

It depends on what you want to do which will determine which guide(s) you might want to view. Your options are virtually limitless. You could VCD your files, you could SVCD them. You could Divx convert them, you could xVid them. You could make them into DVD Vob without menu or with menu. You could just drag, drop, burn, and be done with them. The choice is yours. Visit the guide section here, choose your resulting file format and type that into the guide search.

[Squid_uk]

Id like to VCD them and burn to a dvd if poss

[VCDHunter]

Id like to VCD them and burn to a dvd if poss

Open TMPGenc and load the first of your AVI files, select either the NTSC/NTSC Film* or PAL VCD template depending on the frame rate of your source (Gspot will tell you this).

Under audio settings change the audio rate from 44 khz to 48khz. If its locked right click on the setting and choose unlock.

Select a suitable output location for your completed mpg (or mp2 & m2v) files and press the encode button.

repeat for all the episodes.

* not sure if this is valid for DVD spec as it is for VCD.

Open up your favourite DVD authoring program, author your dvd and burn with your favourite burning program, I use nero.

[Squid_uk]

i had a go converting the files using TMPGEnc Xpress and then tried to use nero 7 ultra edition to burn but i can only seem to get 10 episodes per DVD

[Cobra]

Seven and a half hours isn't bad at all for one DVD. You'll be needing 21 discs (shame about that last one AVI file, if you're getting 10 to a disc and you've got 201 files...) but that's £6 for a spindle of good DVDs - not bad!

You could fit more on if you were willing to sacrifice quality, but I personally wouldn't. Just drop the bitrate a little more.

[VCDHunter]

i had a go converting the files using TMPGEnc Xpress and then tried to use nero 7 ultra edition to burn but i can only seem to get 10 episodes per DVD

10 !! How many do you wan't on there ? If you really feel the need to make this a 2 DVD set I'd wait for Blu-Ray

Seriously though, 10 episodes a disc is pretty good and, as cobra said, 21 DVDs will only cost you just over a fiver.

[Squid_uk]

What i have tried is converting each file to VCD using TMPGEnc Xpress then selecting 8 and sing TMPGEnc DVD Author to create DVD files, when it comes to burning to a DVD using Nero Ultra Edition is get an error about 10mins into the burning process, any ideas what could cause this?

[KBeee]

Ah Grasshopper....
To know where you're going, you first have to know where you've come from
Why do you need to put 201 AVI's onto a set of DVD's?
Are you just archiving them?
Do you want them to play on a stand-alone DVD player?
Do you want to re-encode them so that all 201 will fit onto 1 DVD?
If you want to just save them as they are it'll take about 30 DVD's to store them all
If you want to put all 201 onto a DVD and watch them on your TV then poke your eyes out now - cos that'd be less painfull than trying to watch them
And without being told what kind of AVI's they are it's a bit like trying to shoot a bear in the dark by going by it's fart sounds

[Squid_uk]

right, i want to put about lets say 8 files per dvd onto a disk so i can watch them in my dvd player

when you say what type of avi files, what do you need to know?

[ZippyP.]

... when it comes to burning to a DVD using Nero Ultra Edition is get an error about 10mins into the burning process, any ideas what could cause this?

Any error message? Are you using good disks?

Try burning with TDA, works for me.

[Squid_uk]

the error message just read error reading data (i think)

i have never had a problem with the disks before

[Nelson37]

Stop trying so hard to live up to your user description. Everything you have asked so far, and most of your upcoming questions, would be answered for you in detail, complete with pictures, by doing some reading.

Number of files on disk dependent on file size. File size dependent on bitrate. Bitrate dependent on user-specified settings.

It is extremely difficult to diagnose an error message without the precise text of the error message. If it is as you described, and this message occurred during DVD creation and not during a subsequent disk test, then that would indicate that there was some error either in the original file, or on the hard drive itself. If these 201 files were downloaded, the odds are very good that at least one, and probably more, of the files are corrupted.

I would run a Scandisk and Defrag to check your HD for errors. Also play the suspect file, or the entire group in question if the exact file is unknown, to determine if the original file is readable. If corrupted, chuck it and obtain another. Be sure to test that one carefully as the problem may be present in the original source.

[Squid_uk]

Nelson im sorry for not being detail i was posting from work, i will try and burn again and put the full error message i recieve, about running scandisk and defrag if you see some of my previous post you will see that unfortunatly i cannot run that function