Power Director Pro problem

[paudge]

Hi,

I have a 4.2 GB Mpeg that i want to put on a dvd. I have the Cyberlink Power Director Pro that seems pretty easy to use but when i go to select the mpeg that i want on the disc it says that its too big for the disc. In fact another mpeg that's only 1.4 GB (38 minutes) shows up as being 3 GB! Is there any way that i can compress the mpeg or lessen the quality of it so that it will all fit on the DVD. Anyway i don't understand why an mpeg capured from a video player should suddenly be so large just because its going on DVD. The quality can't be increased?

Thaks for the help,

Paudge

[Baldrick]

please give us more information about your mpg source. if it is dvd compliant it shouldn't be any bigger.

[paudge]

not sure what u mean. Have a TV-in on the PC and recorded it through Power Cinema. Saved as an mpeg and plays with windows media player. There is a recording quality setting in power cinema but i'm not sure which one it was set to when i recorded it. Is there someway i can find out. Have tried right click properties to no avail!

cheers,

paudge

[paudge]

ok so what i figure now is that I captured the mpeg on the DVD standard setting which meant 5000 Kbps (720 X 576) capture rate. This was probably unnecessary (being a recording from TV) and a lower standard would still of produced the same quality of mpeg. So what i need to do now is reduce the Kbps of the capture. Can the Kbps be reduced without losing image quality? and if so how?

cheers,
paudge

[paudge]

Anybody????

[Baldrick]

4.2 gb should fit on a dvd. use another dvd author tool that does not reencode like tmpgenc dvd author.