exact copy of DVD to 2 or 3 CDs

[pire]

Hi! i was thinking that it would be possible to rip an entire DVD...with menus etc, re encode all the videos to a lower bitrate (1700-2000 kbs) which would b about good SVCD quality and therefore reduce the size of a DVD incredibly...and burn more than one movie on a DVDr or may b even 2 or 3CDs

Reading other forums i can learn how to do everything except for how i could split the re encoded DVD to fit 2 or 3 CDs keeping all the DVD extras (menus, subs, 2 languages....)

[tonyp12]

A movie encoded at 1700 kbs will look kind of crappy.

As DVDRs cost $1-$2 each it is not worth the savings.

second part:

Putting it on CDR, they would need to be MiniDVD
and using 3-4 disc (go up and change the disc evey 20 minutes)
and with the low rate of DVD player compatibilty, I do not think soo.

[pire]

but the vob files can b burnt to CDrs...each vob file would contain many more minutes...its basically if we had a...40 min show, compressed it with DVD specs at a bitrate of 2000kbs (which would give a very good quality if encoded correctly - ie using CCE VBR 4 pass or more) or DVD2DVDR and then having a DVD which would occupy 700Mb...if we burn this to a CD instead of a DVDr...would it still be a miniDV?

the thing is DVDrs are still relatively expensive and until their prices lower down and they are sped up im not going to buy one....

[ghoster]

if you stop and think about it dvds and cds cost about the same. a cd holds 40 mintues of svcd on a 800 meg cd. cds are like 10 15 cents each. a dvd can hold littke over 200 minutes of the same svcd quality and they are 60 70 cents each. so you would need 6 cds to get over 200 minutes of svcd. so thats 60 to 90 cents. one dvd cost 60 to 70 cents...................

[Big_Jit]

If you were going to put it all back on a DVD-R I think you could fit 2 movies on the dvd-r and it would be very acceptable Quality.

I've done an XVCD @

704 x 480 MPEG-1
CQ MAX=2000 Min=0 Quality=65 Padding Enabled

MPEG-1 Layer 2
44.1khz
128kbps Joint Stereo

and Got 80 to 85 minutes of same Quality as source video on a single CD-r so I would thing that you could get atleast 2 movies on a 4.87GB DVD-R with very cceptable results!