multi sessionon one disk

[bwsolich]

I am taking my old VHS tapes and putting them on DVD disks.
I Have Pinnacle 10.8 to caputure and edit .

Now what i would like to do is write several session on one disk to use up most of the disk space.

[bwsolich]

Sorry what i need to know is is there any softwear out there to do ?

[minidv2dvd]

dvdr has no multisession writing scheme. there are some that try but only the last written session on the disc will be usable.

[guns1inger]

The only way to do this is with a DVD Recorder. DVD Authoring software tools don't allow it as the DVD specification doesn't support it.

[tomlee59]

As others have said, you can't have a multisession disc that is playable on a DVD player. Instead, author the several sessions as separate titles. That you *can* do. It will allow you to "use up" all that glorious excess space.

[bwsolich]

Ok Thanks to all who responded.
I was hoping i could find the time to cut the time down in burning lreger files.
By chance is there any programs that do this this faster or does the speed depend on the pv and writers.

[guns1inger]

Burning should be fairly fast - 14.5 minutes for a 4X burn, 6 minutes or less for faster burners. Also the amount of content affects the burning time - less to burn, faster to do so.

I suspect that your problem is the amount of time it takes to encode and author ready for burning. Unfortunately encoding is almost a purely a CPU bound exercise. There are some minor changes you might make to get incremental improvements - shave a minute or two off here and there - but foe the most part the only solution is to get a much faster CPU - preferably multi-core - with software that can make use of it properly. I have a base level quad core that I bought as a replacement for the same XP1800 CPU that you have listed in your specs. I have seen encodes that would have taken 4 hours on the Athlon finish in under 20 minutes. And there are much faster quads around now.