dual layer disks handle compression very well...

[kenmasters83]

i put five hours of video in 720x480 resolution onto one duallayer disk and still had around 1500mb of space left!!

orginal file size was a little over 10.000mb but was shrunk with dvd shrink using the fastest possible way with no special options enabled it was a direct encode!!

here is a clip of the compressed video.

[kenmasters83]

here is another is anyone else impressed buy how much video these things can hold in excellent video qualuty??

[Shocker Milwaukee]

Is anyone else impressed buy how much video these things can hold in excellent video quality??

Considering current prices... No. Not when compared to single layer. I'm afraid most people just aren't going to ignore the marked difference in cost.

[kenmasters83]

shocker you want to hear something funny??

upon mentioning memore three pack dual layer dvd's at buy.com they sold out the next day..

somebody's buying them...all of them

[Shocker Milwaukee]

I tried a 3 pack of Verbatims myself, but I won't be buying anymore until the price hits $2 per disc.

[kenmasters83]

well i have hit the limit upon testing the maxium capacity dual layer media it can hold 6 hours of video at 720x480 if you run deep analysis on the video with dvd shrink..

i havent tried any of the AEC options but i am pretty sure it would look just the same its time consuming it takes nearly an hour to do that..thats why it wasnt included in my tests..

i say its the limit because i have been testing it out for the past few days if others wanna join in on the testing please dont hesitate to do so..

to do the test's you need dvdshrink and tmpgenc dvd author and some previous recordings or captures the file size limit is 8 gigs and do you do NOT need a dual layer burner to do the tests just watch the outputted videots folders by dvdshrink for compression artifacts and the like..

the more i test the limits of this media the better the results are getting.

[garryheather]

You're not really testing the media, now, are you ?

Surely you're doing a comparitive test between a transcoder and re-encoding - both are probably pointless with dual layer discs anyway. It doesn't matter how good the discs are if you've shot the video data to buggery by over compressing it.

[Xylob the Destroyer]

...but I won't be buying ... until the price hits $2 per disc.

amen to that brother!
I'm not even buying a DL burner until the price of media hits $2
not to mention until I can actually find the DL media