Please, some help with dvd video capture..

[djackson75]

I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to be able to record 6 hours worth of stuff onto one DVD through the PC? I know it can be done with a stand alone DVD recorder out on the market, since they record at like five different speeds, the worst of wich is EP.

The most stuff I could fit on one DVD was 3 hours...is there a way to do more? a program? a setting??

[Tommyknocker]

If the video is in one file, you can use a bit rate calculator (see Tools section a t left) to determine what your bit rate should be for a six hour DVD. I took a look, and it says it should be set a t 1464 kbps. Of course, there is no guarantee of the quality at this setting, only that it should fit six hours of video on one DVD.

[DiablosuX102]

well, u can compress it with dvdshrink or dvd2one, that will reduce quality though.

josh

[djackson75]

Thanks guys... I think I have more questions though.. What I'm basically doing, is taking two baseball games that I recorded from TV onto my hard disc drive using a tv capture card. They are in MPEG-1 format, and add up to around 5 hours and 50 minutes.. And I want to be able to burn them onto a dvd, with menu's and all, to be played in a dvd player.

Is what was described above going to allow that to happen? I tried to use Sonic MyDVD because it came with my DVD-RW drive, but that one can only do 2 - 3 hours of video.

[Tommyknocker]

well, u can compress it with dvdshrink or dvd2one, that will reduce quality though.

Also a very good idea.

1. Convert all your video into DVD MPEG-2 files with TMPGEnc.

2. Edit them all into one file with its Merge & Cut tool.

3. Use the demultiplex function extract the m2v and mp2 files. Before running, change the file extension of the mp2 file to mpa.

4. Take the two files and use IfoEdit to make your DVD files. Now they are ready for DiabloSux102's idea with DVD Shrink.

[DiablosuX102]

as for making a menu, try out dvdlab man.
http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/Help/quick.htm <--tutorial
good luck with it, josh