movie cd software?

[NHLroyrocks]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but DVD, SVCD , and the sort don't hold a huge amount of media on them. You can get alot more files on a CD by just burning the files straight to the disk than you can authuring a DVD player compatible disk. I'm interested in getting the most files on a cd or DVD as possible and there is no need for it to be DVD player compatible. I was wondering if there was software like DVD authoring ones that can add a menu to video files added to a CD, and that can have all the files play one after another instead of using the computer to open it file by file like if I happened to put 5 avi files onto a CD. Basicly, i want this software to be something the spreads sprinkles on the dirt. Organized simplicity

Does anything like this exist, or am I just dumb all the way around on this topic?

[guns1inger]

OK, you're wrong. A single layer DVD can hold far more data than a single CD - approx6.5 times as much. It just depends on how that data is formatted and what you want to do with it. If you format a movie for DVD, then yes, you might only get 2 - 3 hours of good to reasonable quality. Make it high bitrate Divx and you might get 3 - 4 movies. Compromise to medium bitrate divx/avi and you might get 6 movies or 12 episodes of your favourite TV show on a single DVD. You won't get anywhere near that on a CD.

Now I am guessing, but I suspect you have a pile of little video files in various formats and are hoping to just put them on a disc that you can put into any PC and play. Not going to happen. Yes, you can use CD menu programs - and there are many, free and payware - to put an auto run menu on a disc. If you spend some time working on it, you might be able to use the portable version of VLC to play many of the videos. But even VLC won't play all formats without the right codecs being installed, and you will have to set all of this up manually.

Other options you could consider would include converting evrything to Divx and using Divx Author or Tmpgenc DVD Author 3 to create Divx menus. This would be more DVD-like, but you would have to convert anything that wasn't divx, and you have ot use the Divx Player to play it back.

[NHLroyrocks]

Well to tell you the truth, I have a good amount of rmvb files that I have been trying to get on a DVD for like 20 years (or that how long its felt). The closest I have come to something I like was an very good quality DVD with overscanning problems. The problem is that I am avisynth retarded. I can't get anything to use them. (ConvertXtoDVD, TMPGEnc, VirtualDubMod, or anything else I have seen on the web) Am i supposed to try and open the avs like it was a video file? Also, If anyone helps me with that problem, a suggestion that would maximize the amount i can fit on a DVD and still have good quality would make my day.

[guns1inger]

rmvb is a difficult format to convert, and even harder to convert well. Personally, I have never seen a high quality rmvb file, despite asking to be shown one. What you need is a portable version of the real player so you can run it from a CD or DVD using a simple menu interface. Outside of that, you will have to convert them, or simply give up on having a menu.

[NHLroyrocks]

I could be wrong, but I think these files look pretty good. I dont know if you have any interest in DBZ, but if you do... http://www.megaupload.com/?d=24JHRBWG . They are also only 53MB, so i could get around 12 on a 700mb CD if I'm not missing something important. The thing I have been doing with them so far is keeping the files on my laptop and using a S-video cord to watch them on a TV. The results have been really good, just like tv. I would like to be able to ditch the computer though. I just haven't had that much luck with the whole DVD process.