Please help converting WMV with TMPGEnc

[weller]

I've downloaded some music videos and want to put them onto a DVD-R.
The original WMV file per song is roughly 7mb but when i convert it to MPEG they're about 260-300mb each so i'm only going to get roughly 15 videos (approx 50 minutes viewing)onto 1 DVD-R.
Am i doing something wrong because at the start of using TMPGEnc it says
you can get upto 235 minutes on a DVD-R.
I didn't think a 5 minute mpeg video file would be so big.
Any help please.

[Cobra]

I worked out that for a 5 minute clip @ 8000kbps, it will occupy 307.5MB of space. Because of this, I think that you may have left the bitrate on 8000kbps. Try dropping this to 4000kbps, and you'll fit twice as many on.

Bitrate (you probably know this) is the data allocated to describing the video in a set time. Dropping this will make your file smaller, at the cost of degraded quality.

https://www.videohelp.com/tmpgencdvd.htm - This covers WMV (same as AVI) --> DVD conversion.
https://www.videohelp.com/tmpgencexplained.htm - Here's a guide to every single TMPGEnc setting, and will explain the bitrate controls a lot better that I can just now.

Good luck,

Cobra

[weller]

thankyou for your help,i'm trying the 4000kbps setting now.
The original WMV videos aren't perfect quality anyway so i hope reducing it to 4000kbps doesn't make them worse.
I'll have a look at the links you provided as i've got a lot to learn about using TMPGEnc.

[Cobra]

4000kbps should be fine. I made a similar DVD myself at one point, and the bitrates I used I think were about 3500kbps. It came out at a very good standard, so I think you'll be OK. Experiment, and see how it goes.

Any more problems, just post up.

Cobra