DVD-Xvid To DVD Of Multiple Episodes

[kshillabeer]

I Have Downloaded A Series Via Torrent In DVD-Xvid Format And Now Trying To Burn To DVD But Having few Problems!!

The Series Consists of 10 Episodes In AVI Format All At 699MB.

I Tried Converting Them Using WINAVI Video Converter, 5 Episodes At A Time Thinking They Would Go Onto 2 DVDs, But The First Five Were Converted Onto 2 DVDs Alone, Even With The DVD Size Set to 4.7GB.

Is There An Easy Way Of Finding Out What The Final Size Would Be Without Converting Them, Or Is There A Way Of Getting All Of The Episodes On To One (4.7GB) Disk, Or 5 On One And 5 On The Other.

Will Accept Any Hard Or Easy Solutions!!!

[aedipuss]

how much can go on a dvd is determined by bitrate and time. multiply them together and you get the filesize. use a bitrate calculator like this one,
http://dvd-hq.info/Calculator.html#Calculator

if they are hour long episodes, 2 is about all that will fit and still be watchable quality of over 3000kb/s.

[kshillabeer]

[s:f31c320e3b]So How Come I Only Get 3 Episodes To A DVD Whereas A Proper Copy Bought In The Shop Would Have up To 6 Episdoes On It? Same Series On Both.[/s:f31c320e3b]

[kshillabeer]

[quote="aedipuss"]how much can go on a dvd is determined by bitrate and time.

So How Come I Only Get 3 Episodes To A DVD Whereas A Proper Copy Bought In The Shop Would Have up To 6 Episdoes On It? Same Series On Both.

[poisondeathray]

Easy way: buy a DIVX compatible standalone player. You can find them for $30-50 (or cheaper on e-bay). This way you burn as data disk, and there is no conversion, no quality loss. You can put 7 per disk this way (699MB x 7)

Slightly harder way: use convertxtodvd (trialware) or favc (freeware). These can convert & author to a DVD. You can compress probably 4 hours onto 1 DVD and still get mediocre quality, but the more you compress onto a disk, the lower the quality. These are easy to use and even create simple menus

There is no way that you will be able to get 10hours onto 1 DVD without horrible unwatchable quality. If you can stand crappy quality (but almost watchable), you might be able to squeeze 5 episodes per disk.

[poisondeathray]

So How Come I Only Get 3 Episodes To A DVD Whereas A Proper Copy Bought In The Shop Would Have up To 6 Episdoes On It? Same Series On Both.

1) Store bought DVD's are sometimes dual-layer

2) They are made from an original high quality source. Everytime you do a conversion, you lose quality. If you have an AVI episode that you downloaded, it has already has suffered at least some quality loss. If you convert this again to a DVD you will lose even more quality

=> go buy the DVD

[aedipuss]

if you don't care how bad it looks you can put as many as you like on one dvd. it still only depends on the bitrate you use encoding the mpeg-2. all 10 can "fit" if you squeeze them enough.

[kshillabeer]

Thanx To All - Been Very Useful

[guns1inger]

how much can go on a dvd is determined by bitrate and time.

So How Come I Only Get 3 Episodes To A DVD Whereas A Proper Copy Bought In The Shop Would Have up To 6 Episdoes On It? Same Series On Both.

Why don't you go and buy the series instead. You will get a much better copy than the pirated, poorly encoded version you are creating, and at the same won't break the forum rules.

[bmwracer]

Why don't you go and buy the series instead. You will get a much better copy than the pirated, poorly encoded version you are creating

I've got a feeling that this ten-episode series is from Japan (or around there) and most likely not available for purchase in the UK...

Also, those 10/11-episode series are never subtitled by the originating studio and rely on fansubbers to provide the subtitles...

Just a reasonable guess.


Also, I'm guessing that the episodes are probably about 45 minutes long... So the most you want to put on a single single-layer disc is three episodes without an obvious degradation in picture quality, IMO... And that's if the original source is something like 704x396.