Five 1 hour films in one DVD-5 disc

[vincy]

i have this 5 films which are dvd qualities (i think 480 is their video resolution). each lasts more than an hour..and around 500-600 MB each..size-wise, it will fit in a dvd5 disc because it will end up around 4GB combined.. but will it lose video quality when i burn it in a single dvd5 disc considering the run time will be more than 5 hrs..but the recommended run time for a dvd5 is only 90 mins? if yes, it will lose video quality..then what would you recommend? burn them into 5 different dvds eventhough each is around 500mb only?

[hech54]

but will it lose video quality

Yes.

[jagabo]

will it lose video quality when i burn it in a single dvd5...?

Yes. Unless they're already DVD compliant in which case they've already lost their quality.

[vincy]

but will it lose video quality

Yes.

so to avoid obvious video quality loss, i should burn it to 5 different dvds eventhough they are only around 500mb each?

[DB83]

500 mb for a one-hour dvd compliant mpeg2 file will be sh*t quality anyway.

But I suspect that these vdeos are not mpg. When you author the dvd for one of these the file size will, as if by magic, expand to 4 gig.

[vincy]

500 mb for a one-hour dvd compliant mpeg2 file will be sh*t quality anyway.

But I suspect that these vdeos are not mpg. When you author the dvd for one of these the file size will, as if by magic, expand to 4 gig.

they are avi's..and i will use convertxtodvd to author

[DB83]

try avs2dvd and, yes, just one (max 2) vids per disk

[sanlyn]

500 mb for a one-hour dvd compliant mpeg2 file will be sh*t quality anyway.

But I suspect that these vdeos are not mpg. When you author the dvd for one of these the file size will, as if by magic, expand to 4 gig.

they are avi's..and i will use convertxtodvd to author

AVI is a container, not a compressor or format. "AVI""' can be DivX (lossy), XVid (lossy), Lagarith (lossless), or any number of things. A 30 minute AVI at 500mb is lossy garbage of some kind. Re-encode it for standard DVD (lossy), it looks worse.

Why do people keep doing this?

[hech54]

Why do people keep doing this?

Because people think you can treat video like ZIP files.

[Baldrick]

Get a dvd player or media player with avi divx/xvid support.

[vincy]

500 mb for a one-hour dvd compliant mpeg2 file will be sh*t quality anyway.

But I suspect that these vdeos are not mpg. When you author the dvd for one of these the file size will, as if by magic, expand to 4 gig.

they are avi's..and i will use convertxtodvd to author

AVI is a container, not a compressor or format. "AVI""' can be DivX (lossy), XVid (lossy), Lagarith (lossless), or any number of things. A 30 minute AVI at 500mb is lossy garbage of some kind. Re-encode it for standard DVD (lossy), it looks worse.

Why do people keep doing this?

thanks..that made it clear

[vincy]

Get a dvd player or media player with avi divx/xvid support.

yup..im just gonna store it in a flash drive..thanks

[Tom Saurus]

I just got a LG 3D Blu Ray player and it can play, Divx, Xvid, .flv, .mkv and even .mpeg2 files and probably .mpeg1 files. My suggestion would be snapping one these players up, then take your files and either burn them to a Data Disc or put them on a USB thumb drive and test them out. DVDs are nice, but beyond having Menu's and chapters, there is getting to be less need to actually to go through the steps of making a DVD.

Back to DVD, I assume they are around 90 minutes. One of the mistakes some people make when converting a file to .divx or .xvid avi is they set there target to be 600 mb or so. That was because originally they were aiming to put them on a 650 or 700mb CD-R back in the day. Well the DVD disc can hold 4.2 GB. The trick is to aim for good quality. Which could be aiming for 900mb to 1200mb. Well anyway as another poster suggested just drop in your .avi file in your DVD Program, choose 4 gb as your target size, design your menus and enjoy the product of your efforts.

[robjv1]

Back to DVD, I assume they are around 90 minutes. One of the mistakes some people make when converting a file to .divx or .xvid avi is they set there target to be 600 mb or so.

I think there is a *lot* of truth in that. I hear people asking questions all the time about 600-750MB movies, it seems pretty clear that they are either old divx/xvid rips made way back when or the creators haven't updated their methods.

[vincy]

I just got a LG 3D Blu Ray player and it can play, Divx, Xvid, .flv, .mkv and even .mpeg2 files and probably .mpeg1 files. My suggestion would be snapping one these players up, then take your files and either burn them to a Data Disc or put them on a USB thumb drive and test them out. DVDs are nice, but beyond having Menu's and chapters, there is getting to be less need to actually to go through the steps of making a DVD.

Back to DVD, I assume they are around 90 minutes. One of the mistakes some people make when converting a file to .divx or .xvid avi is they set there target to be 600 mb or so. That was because originally they were aiming to put them on a 650 or 700mb CD-R back in the day. Well the DVD disc can hold 4.2 GB. The trick is to aim for good quality. Which could be aiming for 900mb to 1200mb. Well anyway as another poster suggested just drop in your .avi file in your DVD Program, choose 4 gb as your target size, design your menus and enjoy the product of your efforts.

thanks..that will be my solution..simply burn them to a dvd as data..without converting them to vob files..so no further quality loss right?

[jagabo]

thanks..that will be my solution..simply burn them to a dvd without converting them to vob files..so no quality loss right?

That's correct.

[hech54]

thanks..that will be my solution..simply burn them to a dvd as data..without converting them to vob files..so no further quality loss right?

Now all you need to do is find something to play that disc.

[vincy]

thanks..that will be my solution..simply burn them to a dvd as data..without converting them to vob files..so no further quality loss right?

Now all you need to do is find something to play that disc.

yes..and i already did..almost all late models of dvd player can play a lot of video formats by selecting it on file mode..but of course..without the menu and the like..

[hech54]

yes..and i already did..almost all late models of dvd player can play a lot of video formats by selecting it on file mode..but of course..without the menu and the like..

Yes but there is still the issue of "will it accept/read files from a DVD?....or just a CD?....or only via the USB(memory stick/FAT32 formatted powered USB device)". There is no "universal acceptance" of delivery method or even video/audio codec inside those "AVI" files.

[Tom Saurus]

vincy: Do you have MediaInfo installed on your computer? You can get all the specs for that .avi file and post that here at videohelp. Then perhaps someone will be kind enough to tell you if the player can play those files or not. Just delete lines with personal identifiable information and even the file name. Just the specs of the file are necessary.

[olyteddy]

Why do people keep doing this?

Because people think you can treat video like ZIP files.

If only people did treat video like .ZIP. Zip is lossless...

[sanlyn]

Huffyuv and Lagarith are similar (in lossless compression) to ZIP and RAR. Find a DVD player that can play ZIP, you're in business.

[jagabo]

The last step of all MPEG family compression is lossless entropy encoding, just like HuffYUV, Lagarith, and all the archive utilities.