Need help burning DVD

[thehutt]

Just got a dvd burner today with the hopes of really loading up the dvd's with tons of video (4.7 gig worth)

I thought since the VCD's I have been making took up 1 cd for approx 1 hour of video I would be able to put about 7 cd's worth on a dvd.

But it does not seem to wanna work that way.

I copied the mpgs of 6 VCDs onto my hard drive and thought I would be able to put them all on one DVD to be playable in my home DVD player.

But when I add each mpeg to the file list ...each one being about 800 meg it says it will need to change the format for dvd and the size goes up to about 3.8 gig ! What the hell is up with that!!??

Is there a way around this? Am I doing something wrong or is what I want to do just not possible?

I have the HP 200i DVD writer and I am using the software that came with it Sonic MyDVD.

Help!!!!?

Thanks
Andy

[snaimpally]

Your authoring software wants to convert the VCD to DVD format and re-encode it. You don't want to do that. Read the 'DVD RIP' section where it talks of putting VCD/SVCD on DVD-R without re-encoding. Basically you use a program to edit your VCD files to fake your authoring software into thinking they are already DVD compliant and don't need to be re-encoded. Then once you have created a project with all the files, you set the bits back for each file and then author your DVD.

Your DVD player figures out it needs to adjust the image and makes the appropriate things neccessary to display the image.

Just read the guides, all the info is in there.