video 1 hour 20 minutes and 40 seconds

[diablo]

i have a 1 hour 20 minute and 40 sec. video on my hard drive. i ve cut all i can cut from it... can i burn it to dvd or does it have to be 120 minutes or less?
i cant use dvd shrink because its not a dvd disk, the video is on my hard drive... its mpeg2
are there anthing i can do
what are my options ?

[johns0]

As long as the file is 4.37 gb or under then there should be no problem,its not the time length of the video you need to look at,just the size.Make sure its dvd compatible and you have a dvd author program.

[diablo]

ok great, i was worried about the time..

the original video was 701mb avi file, i encoded it with video studio at 7000kbps, 720 480 etc, all dvd compliant but it turned out to be 5.16 gb size.. got the 7000kbps from powerbit calculator.
when i opened it in virtualdub it said the avi file had a 128 audio bitrate..
what advice or size( kbps) should i encode it aagain i dont want to keep trying trial an error, and do it over and over.

at what bitrate should i do it at? to get it to 4.37gb

thanks

[housepig]

check the DVDRHelp Bitrate Calculator in the Tools section...

[johns0]

What you can do is use dvdshrink to get the already authored files to 4.37 gb

[diablo]

how do i use dvd shrink , i tried it but it was looking for a disk in the dvd rom? how do i use it if i m using a file?

[johns0]

choose open file browse to and load up the first ifo file

[diablo]

there isnt and ifo file, its just a mpeg2 file.. there wasnt any ifo file to add

[johns0]

Use TMPGEnc DVD Author or similar program to author it as i already mentioned.

[diablo]

TMPG enc dvd author isnt free, any free ones out there


thanks

[jaxxboss]

LOL, Boy you just want everythring for free. Are you now using net zero to get on here and post too?

[MackemX]

the original video was 701mb avi file, i encoded it with video studio at 7000kbps, 720 480 etc, all dvd compliant but it turned out to be 5.16 gb size.. got the 7000kbps from powerbit calculator.

I ain't got a clue what video studio is, but you say it created DVD compliant files. So did this not create IFO's and VOB's?

if it did, just load that result into Shrink using file mode