creating a dvd from multiple TV episodes of XVID files

[driggers]

I have yet to find a post or guide for this. If I overlooked somewhere, please refer me there

I have television episodes that I would like to burn to a DVD, to play on my standalone DVD player.

They video codec XVID Mpeg-4 with a video bitrate of about 1000kbps + or - about 25kbps, a video resolution of either 640x368 or 640x352 (aspect ratio 16:9), and a FPS of 23.976.

The audio codec is MPEG Layer-3, a bitrate of about 120-130kbps and a frequency of 48000Hz.

The file sizes are between 347mb and 351mb.

I found all this information in AVIcodec.

I want to convert them all maintaining as much quality as possible and being able to burn them on to DVD. I do not know whether or not converting them changes the file size or what. But if not, I should be able to put about 13 episodes on one DVD, with out changing the original quality to much.

Also, I want to have a Menu, and chapters for each episode.

Thanks for the help.

[dafreak]

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/186739.php

start here.

[driggers]

so just ignore the steps about extracting the AC3 audio, as it is MPEG Layer-3 (MP3 right?)

what about the resolution? its is 720x576. do i just keep it the same? im guess that and 640x352 are 2 different aspect ratio's. one being 4:3 the other 16:9?

so if i want to keep the same quality (minus what i lose to convert it) what do i set the bitrate to? should i just add up the time of however many episodes i want to put on the DVD? and make it equal about the same bitrate as the orginal being about 1000.

which works to about 15 episodes for the same 1000kbps as the originals.

[driggers]

i followed the guide, minus the AC3 extraction part.

i got a 1.15gig files from 358mb file. its much worse quality, blocks in the background everywhere, and fast sequences are just jumbly. plus no audio. i still have the 128kbs audio, and i figured the bitrate to be 1004, so i put it at 1050kbps for the video. yet its 1.15 gigs, and that bitrate was for 15 episodes worth of video, about 8 or so hours.

im so confused?!?

[Gazorgan]

The XviD bitrate has nothing to do with the MPEG2 bitrate.

For full D1 720x480/576 you need a bitrate of 4000-7000. For 1/2 D1 (352x480/576) you can get away with a bitrate in the 2000-4000 range. Neither of which will get you 8 hours per DVD. You can get 8 hours per DVD, but it's more involved.

At full D1 you can get 1-3 hours per disk, at 1/2D1 you can get 3-6 hours per disk.

[driggers]

thanks.

so how do i go about that? i dont want to lose any of the quality of the orginal xvid file (i realize there is a slight degredation from converting it).

i just want to put put as many episodes on as possible.

whats the more involved way? do i loose quality?

i must have done something wrong to get a 1.15gig file at 1000kbps video bitrate. because that would be about 4 episodes or almost 3 hours worth of video. and it had no sound, plus the quality seemed a lot lower, very blocky and jerky in faster sequences.

[FulciLives]

Everyone take a look at this thread please:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=211456

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[driggers]

bah, thanks!

"Warez includes downloaded copyrighted movies, movies that are not yet released on VHS/DVD and copying rented movies. "

I see nothing about television episodes, sorry, im new i didnt realize it was such a sin. im sure people talk about warez all the time, they just dont specify it, i just messed up and was honest first.

i only provided links to what i thought was not warez to help people know exactly what type of files i was dealing with.

[driggers]

Accidental repost..