Burning a few .AVI files with SVC2DVD

[geek2330]

I had a couple minidv tapes with some video I captured on a vacation. I converted and uploaded the video with winavi so I now have 4 files extension *.AVI

3 of the videos are about 13GB in size and 1 is about 10GB.

My question is, what would be the best practice when converting this to DVD format with SVC2DVD and using a 4.7GB dvd media disk, should I just put 2 files and create one dvd and then a 2nd dvd with the other 2 files?
Taking in consideration the file size I don't know how much I can burn onto one dvd using the program without sacrificing video quality....

I guess I may only be able to burn only one file due to the size.....

[ChrissyBoy]

Source file size is not the issue. The duration of the sources is. Have a read through https://forum.videohelp.com/topic338586.html?highlight=duration to see if that helps.

[geek2330]

ok, will read over, in the meantime 3 of the files have a duration of about 1 hour each and the last file is about 45 minutes.

In general I think that one file per dvd is the right thing to do, right?

[ChrissyBoy]

that would give the optimum quality. 2 on each would be good also however. Your call.

[geek2330]

started burning 1 file this afternoon, still converting and it's about 80%......looks like it will take around 5 hours for a single file........too long!!!

vista business 32bit
P4 3.0 GHZ
2GB RAM
no other apps running, just svc2dvd
file is on ntfs partition of the drive, resulting file going to same partition
partition has about 35GB free of space

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[geek2330]

guys, why is it taking soooo long for 1 file????
see the picture attached, been running for 6 hours and the percentage is 103.6%, what's up with that???

[ChrissyBoy]

Wierd. I am away this week but will investigate on my return... In the meantime perhaps this may resolve the issue: https://forum.videohelp.com/topic331487.html?highlight=avisynth

[geek2330]

thanks chrissyboy, I'm not a pro per say and not sure how to implement avisynth though, I guess you're telling me that this would speed up the process (it was only 5 fps for that file and finally it finished at around 7 hours....)

UPDATE: I understand the post in the link, now how do I know I have the DirectShow filters installed?, the files play fine both in wmp and svcd2dvd.....