Multiple Videos on on DVD

[ace1399]

I am trying to burn as many South Park episodes on one DVD as possible. They are about 80 - 150 megs each and are in DivX format. I have Roxio Creator 6 and when I add them to the DVD it will only let me put like 3 episodes on one DVD and thats only like 70 mins of video. Is there anyway to lower the quality or compress the files to maximize the capacity of my DVDs. Thanks

[equinox137]

Sounds like your authoring program thinks you want to author a VCD

[x21x]

If you want to fit as many episodes as possilble on a DVD, then the quality is not going to be that great. Nevertheless, you have to convert videos (assuming their not mpeg) to a DVD compliant format and then author them to DVD. Try using TMPGEnc to convert and TMPGEnc DVD to author.

[teegee420]

Since your source files are Divx and not that great in terms of quality(I can tell by the file size) you are best off converting them to VCD mpeg, only change the audio sampling rate to 48000hz. Load an avi in TMPGEnc, select the VCD template, click "setting", then the audio tab. Load all the mpegs in TMPGEnc DVD Author(or your preferred program) and you will be able to squeeze aproximately 6-7 hours of South Park on one DVD. Damned fine DVD if you ask me. It's really pointless to convert them all to full DVD spec.

[thor300]

Yah, no need to encode to full dvd. Whats the resolution of your source files? If its like 320x240 then go for 352x240, if its much bigger, for ex 640x480 (judging from the filesize yours are smaller)or so then i would probably go for 720x480 or 352x480. But dont put TOO much in one disk if using tmpgenc, its not so good at low bitrates.

[presto]

I put 7 hours of video on DVDs all the time. As suggested above I use VCD format with the audio changed to comply with DVD. I capture my video with ATI MMC and use it's filters to keep the video from looking washed out. You might want to do a few experiments and see if you can pump up the color saturation while converting with Tmpgenc.