Two movies on a 4.7MB disc??

[Noy2014]

I've recently used 'DvdReMake Pro' to merge and compress two different movies into one 8.5MB disc. I then used 'DVD Rebuilder Pro' to further compress/rebuild that file to fit on a 4.7MB disc. However, not surprisingly, the quality came out too distorted.

Is this the end of the road? Does anyone have any techniques or suggestions as to how to fit two movies on a 4.7MB disc?

[guns1inger]

You can fit 6 on a standard DVD is you compress them with Divx/Xvid and use an appropriate player. If you want to create a real DVD then you are limited by mpeg2 compression. This means 90 - 120 minutes of good quality (assuming a good source), 120 - 180 minutes of reasonable quality, and after that it drops off very quickly. You might consider half-D1, however you lose 16:9 encoding options and the image becomes softer.

Honestly, unless they are short movies, you should use dual layer discs or stick with one to a disc.

[zoobie]

Like guns1inger said, at 25 cents per disk, there's no need to cram several movies on a disk

[Noy2014]

Yes, I agree with you Zoobie, however, I wasn't looking at DVD-R. I was considering this for replicating DVD5. That's why the limitations.

[redwudz]

For two movies on a DVD-5 disc, I would try the 1/2 D1 format. It should be able to make better use of the lower bitrates than full D1. But with two full length videos, you are realistically looking at bitrates that could approach VCD quality. I would definitely dump any extras, languages, subs and anything else you can lose.

See 'WHAT IS' DVD on the upper left on this page for the 1/2 D1 specifications.

[jman98]

Noy2014 - You say you are using DVD Rebuilder Pro. What encoder are you using with it? TMPGenc is not a bad encoder, but I would consider it to be a poor choice for this kind of job. It has a tendency even at higher bit rates to show occasional macro blocks. If I had to do this kind of thing, I'd use CCE and maybe 4 or 5 passes. redwudz suggestion to go to 1/2 D1 format is a good one, but you'll have to do that outside of tools like DVD Rebuilder using tools like Avisynth. It could get pretty complicated for an inexperienced user to do this. If you can't use CCE with DVD Rebuilder, I'd try HC before I'd use TMPGenc. I think DVD Rebuilder supports one more encoder, but I don't remember what that is and I've never used it.