2 Hour Captured Movie to Single DVD+R? (Total Newbie)

[badfish]

Here's what I have:

Fairly Recent Dell Computer
Pentium 4
Brand New Adaptec VideOH! PCI Capture Card
Brand New Micro-Advantage DVD+-R Burner
Sonic MyDVD

So far I can only put about an hour and a half of captured video on a single DVD+R, even when capturing at the lowest possible quality setting. This means that I have to split a two hour captured movie over two DVD+R discs. Can anyone help me figure out how to get a whole movie on a single DVD+R? I'm a total newbie, and I'm lost. I'd appreciate any and all help so please reply!

[I'm using MyDVD, but when I burn the project using Roxio 6 it kind of lets me squeeze all of the file onto a single DVD+R by re-authoring or re-encoding (or both) the whole file, but the quality sucks and doesn't play back well on my home DVD player (choppy, hangs and freezes...).]

Thanks in advance for any help. I've got three discs left, and I'd rather use them for three captured movies than only one and a half.

Brian J.

[dawsonj]

Use DVD FAB to remove unnecessary menus and extras.
Use DVD Shrink and select "deep analysis" to back up VOBs so they all fit in one disk but highest quality.
Any old burning software to burn the VIDEO_TS folder produced by DVD shrink.

[lchiu7]

Sounds like he's captured his video himself so DVDShrink won't help. A better option would be to look at the MPEG2 program he was using to encode the video and choose a lower bitrate - 6000bps should fit 2 hours of movie on a DVD

[dawsonj]

Possibly true but in any case it is often easier to shrink it then muck around with other settings and the same process works for all situations.

[andkiich]

Use a bitrate calculator and set your MPEG2 bitrate accordingly. You should be able to get up to 4 hours of acceptable quality video on a DVD, more than that if you do not mind degradation in quality.

[lchiu7]

Use a bitrate calculator and set your MPEG2 bitrate accordingly. You should be able to get up to 4 hours of acceptable quality video on a DVD, more than that if you do not mind degradation in quality.

Shrink is the best option if you have a DVD9 that you want to get onto a DVD5. But it looks like he has original MPEG2 footage that hasn't been authored to DVD yet. I don't know if DVDShrink can handle that

[dawsonj]

No, you missed the point.

Two scenarios
(1) copied old authored or new DVD or whatever and does not fit - do the DVD shrink thing
(2) movie too long and still mpeg format? Then author anyway and ignore the errors and produce VIDEO_TS folder with greater than 4 and a bit gigs, test the menus and plays OK in software DVD player, then use shrink to make it fit for burning.

What I was originally saying was instead of going back and reencoding avis to mpeg or whatever (and this was original assumption) is to go ahead and produce a VIDEO_TS folder regardless of source and then use shrink to make it fit. This is just as good as trying to fiddle and re-encode etc and offers one uniform process for ALL DVD fitting problems rather than havine two.

Person said he was a newbie so using KISS (keep it simple) principle.

Kapish???