How to fit 2.5hours of mpeg2 file into a 4.7Gig dvd-r?

[tienquang2]

I capture in mpeg2 for dvd-r burning. My file is about 2.5hours long. I would like to make a dvd-r, which is only a single layer and 4.7G big. I am using Nero to burn. How do I do it?

[patricia3470]

Hi, use DVDshrink to re-encode to 4.38GB. You can fit 3 hours on a DVD-R disc ,still with quite good quality,but thats taking it to the extrem,but it does work. Hope this helps .

[tienquang2]

I don't think dvdshrink can start with a mpeg2 file. You can only open a DVD drive as a source, or a file in ifo format. I may be wrong.

[Supreme2k]

What you could do is author the dvd (create folders), then use one of the shrinking programs on it. I know that Ulead DVD Workshop will do "oversized" authoring. m,aybe others, too.

[VidGuy]

What you've told us isn't enough information to determine that it WON'T fit on a DVD-R.....

I can make a 2.5 hour movie that will fit on a CD (it will look like crap, but I can still do it).

How big is your movie? If it's less than 4.7 GB, it will already fit on a DVD-R. If it's bigger, you need to downsample it.

There are a ton of ways to downsample it - I would use DVD2AVI, AVISynth, and either CCE or TMPGEnc, along with the bitrate calculator in the Tools section.

However, you could do what Supreme2k suggested- it's just not how I would go about it.

[doug1937@hotmail.com]

Reencode it using a bitrate of 2000 or so...

[K2]

You did not give much info but here is my reply.

1. demux your MPG file. Many programs for this.
2. remux with IFOedit (author DVD) this will give you VOB files and IFO files.
3. Use DVDshrink to compress to 4.36G
4. burn to DVDR


If you need more detail, please give us more info to work with.

[bugster]

Reencode it using a bitrate of 2000 or so...

2.5 hours on 1 DVD needs a bitrate of 3800 Kbit/s

re-encode with TmpGenc at this as the average bitrate, using 2-pass VBR, motion estimate normal or high and you won't go far wrong.

[ktnwin]

patricia and supreme2k are right, you do not need to re-encode since this could take a long time.
Just author the MPEG-2 file(s) into a DVD folder (BIG\VIDEO_TS), then use DVDShrink (freeware) or DVD2ONE to shrink that BIG\VIDEO_TS folder into a new folder (e.g. FIT\VIDEO_TS). Then use Nero to burn the contents of FIT\VIDEO_TS.