Converting Multiple Xvid Eps to DVD.

[ScottyBoyUK]

Im hoping to find some help on this ,ive trawled through almost every guide on this site and none seem to hit the nail on the head.

For a christmas gift ive been asked to put all 7 seasons of star trek onto a dvd. The file names are simialr for all 16 episodes in the first season

star.trek.voyager.s01e01.e02.dvdrip.ac3.xvid-sfm
star.trek.voyager.s01e03.dvdrip.ac3.xvid-sfm

these are 347 mb each roughly.

Ive since tried putting them into WinAvi and even though I ask it to limit 6 of these episodes onto 1 dvd it always spits out 6 gig after its converted only two of the files, so ive given up on that app.

I have then since tried converting with tmpengc using the AVI2DVD guide. This would be extremely useful but again it doesnt limit the size and can only get about 3-4 eps one DVD which isnt the most practical thing. And I can only reduce the bitrate to 2000 which is still giving me 1016 gig.

The reason im putting so much effort into getting more eps on one disc is not long ago I recieved a DVD of the Enterprise eps. There were 24 eps on one season and each season was 3 discs consisting of roughly 10 eps on 2 of the discs. This also had a menu which looked like DVD Author.

I am wondering how this was done and how I can do it. Im not worried about quality at the moment im just trying to get a proper way of getting these files onto a DVD. I cant sem to get help anywhere else and as I said there is no guide which hits my problem on the head.

This is a screen dump from GSpot. Any help would be greatly appreciated and hopefully it will help other users with the same problem



You are in breach of the forum rules and are being issued with a formal warning. No warez! Quote from the Paramount site:
"The first four seasons of Star Trek: Enterprise are scheduled to appear in DVD box sets beginning in May 2005."
/ Moderator Capmaster

[DVDJET]

the reason you cant fit as many seasons on one disc as the commercial dvd is probably because you are using a dvd5 single layer discs and the commercial dvd will be dvd9 dual layer which holds approx twice as much as single layer.

[ScottyBoyUK]

The enterprise episodes were also dvdrips. The guy has ripped them from the retail and has managed to download individual eps like me and reconvert to fill 11 on each of the 3 discs. I am wondering how he did this in the first place

[mats.hogberg]

There are 3 limiting factors:
1) DVD capacity. Commercial has roughly 9 GB, single layer DVD-R 4.3
2) Playing time of your sources.
3) Bitrate used when encoding.

Since 1 & 2 are constants (given that you have a single layer burner and have settled for 7 eps on one DVD) only variable left is bitrate. By using a bitrate calculator, you will find what bitrate to use when encoding.

/Mats
PS! As you can see, the size of your source file(s) are not part of the equation... DS