how many minutes VCD on a DVD

[g_i_l_s_t_e_r]

hi good folks of dvdrhelp

I have several episodes of Alias i wanna put on a DVD, each episode is aprox 43 min.
When I use Ilead DVD workshop I can only fit 5 episodes ........Can this be right

all episodes is mpeg ( I believe that they are in VCD-format)

all help is appreciated,

thx
GILSTER

[mats.hogberg]

You usually count roughly 10 MB/1 minute VCD mpeg. A DVD is 4480 MB, => 448 minutes= 7 hrs, 28 minutes.

/Mats

[g_i_l_s_t_e_r]

but I can only fit 5 episodes,,,,,,,,,,, they are aprox 440 Mb each ........

Is DVD worksshop a crapy program ???

[RabidDog]

10 x 440 = 4400mb

[mats.hogberg]

Not crappy, but not the right one for what you're trying to do. If your mpegs are VCD compliant, then what's left to do to make'em DVD compliant is to resample the audio at 48 kHz. If you use TMPGEnc DVD Author (instead of DVD Workshop) it will perform this task automagically, while leaving your video untouched.

/Mats

[g_i_l_s_t_e_r]

TMPGEnc DVD Author (instead of DVD Workshop), worked .....

How long should it take for TMPGEnc DVD Author to recode the mpeg's(total 4400 MB)


Gilster

only need a valid key for TMPGEnc DVD Author..

[mats.hogberg]

How long should it take for TMPGEnc DVD Author to recode the mpeg's(total 4400 MB)

TDA shouldn't reencode the video at all, just the audio, which ought to be fairly quick(depending on your computer specs).

only need a valid key for TMPGEnc DVD Author..

This can be obtained from Pegasys.

/Mats

[g_i_l_s_t_e_r]

got the key..... Trying it tonight, hopefully with succes.

Now they only need to get on with (alias) episode 14 in the US so I can get it

[rhegedus]

You usually count roughly 10 MB/1 minute VCD mpeg. A DVD is 4480 MB, => 448 minutes= 7 hrs, 28 minutes.

Yep, that is about right.

I'm working on E.R. series 10 and I predict there'll be about 10 episodes (app 43-44 mins each) per disk.

[g_i_l_s_t_e_r]

worked like a charm..........

took hell of time , it took TMPGEnc DVD Author, aprox 4-5 hour to recode the mpeg's to vob, is that normal ?????? (working on a 750 mHz)

(all 10 episods on one disk, damm i love my DVD-burner, tried to overburn 2 episode on a VCD (cdr) not so good )

[mats.hogberg]

750 MHz is pretty low end these days, so I wouldn't be surprised, even if 4-5 hrs just for muxing seems like an awful long time to me. But then again, I guess there's reencoding of the audio in that time too. Time for a new 'puter, maybe?

/Mats

[koic]

Ok, about timing.
If one would follow guide
VCD To DVD Conversion without reencoding the video then 4-5 hours
could be reduced!
More over. Now TMPGenc DA does transcoding, and BeSweet is not needed.
The output audio files are different, mpa and mp2, but quality looks the same.
Authorization with separate video and audio takes a minutes.