6 hours of high quality AVI compressed to1 DVD?

[ZippyP.]

i set the audio to CBR mpeg-1 layer II audio -mp2) to an mpeg-2 that was 352 X240 with a bitrate of 2000

i was left with a 7GB dvd folder on my hard drive
then i just compressed that with DVD Shrink to make another dvd folder that was around 4.36G

You would have been better off encoding at 1200 kbps which would have fit the video without shrinking. Less steps and better quality. A bitrate calculator lets you figure out the proper settings.

BTW, your resolution setting is less than 1/2 of the SVCD standard of 480X480 so it's not likely that it looks that good. As long as you're happy that's all that counts.

[jagabo]

Doesn't Sonic My DVD have a "don't reencode DVD compliant MPEG files" setting? There's no reason for it to reencode the files from TMPGEnc, they're already ready to burn to DVD.

A little searching shows that My DVD does have such a setting. You should be using it.

For example:

http://www.emedialive.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=8309&PageNum=2

The most popular entry-level DVD authoring tool, Sonic's MyDVD, automatically encodes all video at 8Mbps, which limits you to 60-70 minutes per disc, unless you import it in MPEG-2 encoded at a lower bit rate and don't add any effects or transitions (which mandate re-encoding) once you've got it in MyDVD.

[chaos_maiden]

Ok, first, would it kill you guys to be a little nicer to the newbies?


Second, NeroVision most definately has its flaws, however the new version of NeroVision that comes with Nero 7 allows for exactly what the author of this thread wants to do, and is suitable for his/her apparent level of expertise. For downloaded AVIs, you can get approximately 6 hrs on a disc with no noticable quality loss from the original AVI with NeroVision.

[edDV]

Ok, first, would it kill you guys to be a little nicer to the newbies?

I think if you follow the history, an absolute newbie is given respect. A newbie that has shown effort but is stuck gets intense support.

A demanding newbie is rebuffed and sent back to read the existing guides or forum links.

A diehard combat newbie that is here to challenge conventional wisdom is asked to proove his/her case and if successful gets the respect of all.

[jimmalenko]

Ok, first, would it kill you guys to be a little nicer to the newbies?

Sorry.


RTFM *please*, NOOB !

[guns1inger]

Ok, first, would it kill you guys to be a little nicer to the newbies?

After rephrasing the same advice 4 times and still not getting through, yes.

[FulciLives]

I farted.

[guns1inger]

OK . . . . . . (backs away slowly, avoiding eye contact and sudden movement)

[maca]

I hate to drag this silly thread out longer than it already is, but I have to make an amendment to my earlier post in which I said the best way to get a lot of video on one disc was with TMPGEnc. I've been fooling around with WinDVD Creator, and while it sucks for any application needing variable settings, it's the absolute greatest if you really feel the need to get as much video as possible on one disc.

As I stated earlier, I like to make long discs out of the old westerns downloaded from www.archive.org. I took one of these downloaded films and played around with it in WinDvd Creator. After saving the maximum amount of space by stripping the audio and converting to ac3, I then encoded the movie in DVD Creator at its "EP" mode setting. I then demuxed that (as DVD Creator only creates mpgs, and I wanted to remove the useless audio track), combined the resulting m2v with my ac3 audio, and got a beautiful copy of an hour long movie that's only 705 Meg. And it case you think that would have to look like crap, here's a screen. You'll notice very little blockiness, and it looks just as good in motion as it does as a still.

[jagabo]

maca, What movie was that?

[maca]

A silly little film called RIP-ROARIN' BUCKAROO. My video and audio collection is on the verge of taking over my house, so I look to save space wherever possible. I wouldn't do this kind of compression to a great movie, but for this kind of thing, getting 6 hours on a disc is just the ticket.

[jagabo]

A silly little film called RIP-ROARIN' BUCKAROO.

Thanks, I might download it just to play around with encoding.

[maca]

The movie began life as a 3.5 gig mpeg. I realize the original question in this thread was how to encode AVI to 6 hour dvd, but it soon became about whether or not you could get that much of anything on a disc with any watchable quality. I've also done some avi with this method, and the results depend largely on the quality of the original avi. A good, clean avi should do just fine, but some avi files can be a little noisy to begin with and might not have as far to descend before they get problematic.

Anyway, some more Buckaroo: