dvd2svcd

[mrpink]

I searched thru the forums hoping to find some information that would answer my question, sad to say i didnt have much luck. Up until now i have only downloaded movies and burnt them as either svcd or vcd, depending on the rip, but now i would like to try something new. Ive done some reading on dvdripping, specifically dvd2svcd, so i thought i would give it a try. To be honest, rather easy to rip a dvd, only one question. Say the movie your ripping is 120mins long, you would like to include the director audio track along with the regular track, what kind of hd space are you going to need for this?? Ive done some reading on this online, but seems no answer to that question. Some guides say your going to need 17gig of free space, while others say 7gig, bit of a difference.
Also anyone who has used this program, found a few helpfull tricks during their efforts, feel free to share.
Thanks for any input.

[adam]

I don't know the full capacity of a dual layer dvd but I don't think its 17gigs. the largest dvds I have ever see, including the movie and all the extra content, was about 9 gigs.

Don't concern yourself with the extra audio streams. Those don't take up all that much space at all. The space you will need will depend on the dvd. Different films are encoded at different bitrates and thats what determines their size. Some movies might be as small as 3 gigs while others might be 6 or 7 gigs.

If you have 10 gigs free than you should fine to rip any dvd, but you can always just look at the properties of the disk to see how big it is, though when ripped to your hard drive it will actually be slightly smaller since dvds use a different file storage system.