twenty epidoes in one 4.7 gb disk? how did they do that?

[cantthinkofaname]

the asian dvd pirates are selling dvds that have over eleven hours of video in it. I saw one dvd that had not one, but the first two seasons of hell's kitchen in one 4.7 gb disk. how dd they do that?

[SatStorm]

Eleven Hours? Only if they used VCD framesizes & bitrates on a DVD9 disc.

On a DVD5 disc it could be possible only with H264 and Half D1 framesize. Those discs could be playable to HD DVD an BD players, but not on regular DVDs.

[jagabo]

This has been covered dozens of times.

File size = bitrate * running time.

[jman98]

Assuming it's a true DVD format disc and not a data disc with something like Divx, it's certainly possible with a low enough bit rate. SatStorm is not correct- a true single layer DVD could be made with a low enough bit rate, but the video will look very bad.

[cantthinkofaname]

what program can i use to do that? This is what i want to do. I have four discs, each with four episodes, and i want to combine all those episodes into one 4.7 gb disc. how do i do that?

If you know a thread please direct me to it. And dont worry, my dvds are legal. i just wanna combine them all into one disc.

[zoobie]

one word...why?

episodes of anything is copyrighted

[Noahtuck]

He didn't say anything about being copyrighted, he just said his dvd's were legal and he wants to combine all 16 episodes to one disc....

[DarrellS]

So the Philippine video pirates want to learn how to do the same thing that the Chinese video pirates do. Maybe he should ask the Chinese video pirates.

If I was a video pirate then I would convert them all to DivX and if I wanted to screw my customers then I'd encode them at a very low bitrate so I could fit them all onto one disc.

Some people will buy anything if it sounds good enough.

[Noahtuck]

So the Philippine video pirates want to learn how to do the same thing that the Chinese video pirates do. Maybe he should ask the Chinese video pirates.

If I was a video pirate then I would convert them all to DivX and if I wanted to screw my customers then I'd encode them at a very low bitrate so I could fit them all onto one disc.

Some people will buy anything if it sounds good enough.

Tru Dat 8)

[jimdagys]

I am in China and the screen on my xp computer just turned black.

[zoobie]

ROTFLMFAO!

[Milardo]

I use honestech fireman cd/dvd burner that comes with dvd authoring studio 2.0. The dvd authoring studio allows you to adjust the bitrate from super low to super high. You can also adjust the audio bitrate to very low. This can allow you to put many episodes of whatever on one disk! The quality suffers the lower you adjust video bitrate though. You have to find a balance. I use 800kbps for video, 352x240 for size and 64kbps for audio. It plays in all my dvd players. You can also have motion menus and chapter/menu creation. I got the whole program for just 19.99. By the way the conversion is a bit slow and I use Kiss DejaVu Enc for that because it's fast and if you select the option of not reencoding it in dvd authoring studio it will skip it as long as the parameters are the same.

[tomlee59]

the asian dvd pirates are selling dvds that have over eleven hours of video in it. I saw one dvd that had not one, but the first two seasons of hell's kitchen in one 4.7 gb disk. how dd they do that?

The most common thing seems to be to encode them to VCD (actually, sub-VCD) specs, and then author the collection as DVD. One of the Chinese TV series discs I own has the whole miniseries on a single DVD5 disc. The videos are encoded to VCD framesizes, around 800-900kb/s video, and 48kHz, 128kb/s audio. Fits 10 or 11 1-hour episodes on that one disc.

Quality is obviously traded off for duration, but for a cheesy TV show where not much is happening in the way of visuals, it's ok. Just fine for long trips where you don't want to haul a stack of discs around with you, but you want something to watch.

[SatStorm]

I answered it straight: Only by using VCD bitrates and framesizes. On a DVD9 it looks "OK". On a DVD5 (low the bitrate) it's going to look like dancing squares. Possible yes, viewable no.
All other solutions are xDVDs with the exception of using H264 and playback the discs on BD/HDDVD players.

Authored DivX on DivX certified DVD players could be an alternative too. Of course that is not DVD Video any more, is a DVD Data with DivX.

Some DVDs can handle 352X240 mpeg 1 at 23.97fps. That could look "OK" on around 1000kb/s bitrate.

So in theory, you can resize your source to 336x224 inside a 352x240 canvas, filter it a lot, smooth it a lot, do a 4 pass VBR encoding at 23.97 fps and author it as DVD. It remains a DVD and the overscan would hide the black boarders too. For very static videos, it could do the trick even on a DVD5.

Also, there are the Letterboxed material,that use much less picture on the screen. Back in the day, I was able to convert whole 2.30 hour movies grabbed from satellite on a single CD that way, with "acceptable" picture on a TV Screen around 21". Watching them on an 40" LCD is impossible.

[filmboss80]

Legal copy? LOL! It is a Fox series, and they don't release a whole season on a single disc. Plus, the copy was purchased in the Philippines -- Piracy Central of the SW Pacific.

Please!

[Noahtuck]

Legal copy? LOL! It is a Fox series, and they don't release a whole season on a single disc. Plus, the copy was purchased in the Philippines -- Piracy Central of the SW Pacific.

Please!

HUH ?!?!
He said it was an asian pirtated set with two seasons on it, he just wanted to know how he could take his LEGAL/LEGIT 4ep per disc and combine all 16 onto one disc like those