A gigabyte of audio?!

[mrlimpet]

I just finished a DVD of a PBS series on the Reconstruction. After
authoring (ULEAD DVDWS2) the 2 hours 45 minutes needed 6.8GB.
I ran it through DVD Shrink and the video had to be compressed
by 50% because there was a gigabyte of audio!

How does 2:45:00 of off-the-TV audio take that much space?

Is that reasonable? Any suggesttions on reducing it?

My video is 720x480 4400kbps
Audio is MPEG2 224kbps

TIA!!

Ed

[borax]

Is that reasonable?

With your stream properties:
Audio is MPEG2 224kbps
No.
224 kbit per sec = 0,02734375 MByte per sec => 270,7 MByte total.

Any suggesttions on reducing it?

Try another authoring program (which doesn't reencode)

[mats.hogberg]

That is to say: Ulead is reencoding your fine mp2 audio to LPCM (uncompressed).

/Mats

[jagabo]

I don't have Ulead DVDWS2 but I have their Movie Factory. Look for a setting called "Treat MPEG audio as non-DVD compliant" and turn it off.