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[belvedere16]

I converted a divx to dvd quality with TMPGEnc it is 4.37 gig so i cant burn it with spruce up or anything cause chapters and menues add size to the movie is there a program where i can just burn the movie ..

please help!!!

thx

-BEL

[BJ_M]

you can not burn anyway with spruce up ..

to make it smaller you will either have to lower the bit rate or cut something ..

[steptoe]

You don't have much choice but to re-encode the movie again, this time reducing the bitrate, so that the final movie size is less than the maximum size of the DVD. The rough maximum allowed is about 4438MB, so that there is enough room left for over-heads



If you intend to do that in future, never fill up the DVD to it's limit, or you'll get that problem again, I work it out so its about 50-100MB less than the limit, not had a problem yet

Or, do what I also do, get a decent DVD-R bitrate calculator, and just type in the film length, what format you're using and it will calculate the maximum bitrate to fill that DVD-R to a safe limit, so that you'll not get problems again. I use this to enable me to get 2 or more films per DVD, mainly Disney stuff as most of the "good" ones are over 30 years old anyway, so a drop in quality won't effect you're viewing that much

Look in the "tools" section on here, there is a very good DVD-R bitrate calculator that can be used offline

DON'T try to use a DivX bitrate calculator, you'll get different figures they are designed to work out how best to squash a film to fit on a CD, not a DVD




On a sidenote, is it or isn't it possible to overburn a DVD yet, or I assume there just isn't the spare capacity on the media to enable an overburn situation. Just curiosity, I don't overburn a media's limit anyway

[BJ_M]

also -- you could cut the credits out and titles and you maybe have enough room -- then you would not have to re-encode

[nickerous]

I have never burned a dvd-r yet, but I plan to in the near future. But, just so I get this straight....the maximum allowed on a 4.7gb dvd is around 4400-4500? I am really thinking about getting one to transfer some tv shows to dvd. I would like to get 6, 20 minute episodes on 1 dvd, but, have a significant improvement over my existing SVCD files on cd-r. My files right now run about 420 MB. Using 4500 as maximum datat allowed, I could get 6 episodes on there at 750mB each.

Would that give me enough room to create the dvd? Right now, I'm not thinking about putting any type of menu, or chapters on it. Just 6 episodes and the ability to skip between episodes (skip to next episode without having to sit through the first episode). Is this possible?

[BJ_M]

you can get 3 hours of high quality video onto a dvd (4.38) , and even more by using 1/2 D1 (about 4 hours) ..