8 Hour DVD

[nirbhayn]

Hi
Have a 8 hour DVD-9 which have to convert to DVD-5. It has 2 titles containing 4 hours of vobs. Now i have been trying to do it through DVD Rebuilder but it seems that it is treating one of the title as extras. I know i have told to steal space from extras but how do i solve this.

Another Method i though was to encode each title to svcd using dvd2svcd. and then author it through DVDLab. good idea?. will i have better quality than the first option.

[guns1inger]

Neither option will look good. To get 8 hours on a single DVD 5 will require going down to VCD resolution and sub-VCD bitrates. Can't you just split it across 2 DVD5s, or use a DL ? At 8 hours on a DVD9 it has pretty much pushed the space envelope as far as a quality is concerned. Any further reduction will render it unwatchable.

That said, DVD Rebuilder Pro will allow you to convert all material to half-D1. However, even at half-D1, 4 hours on a DVD5 is about the acceptable limit.

[SingSing]

Why don't you encode to two DVD5 ? It is the most common solution.

[Scorpion King]

Putting 8hrs of video on 1 DVD is quite a challenge. The average bitrate will need to be about 1000kbps with 224k audio.

If I were going to try such a project I would probably get the dvd folder onto the hdd then load one of the vobfiles into VirtualDubMPEG2. I would then add a deinterlace filter, a resize filter to 352x240, then maybe a sharpening filter w/about 4-6 setting, then frameserve that to Tmpgenc. In Tmpgenc I would load the VideoCD template then the unlock template (or right click on the needed items) and change the bitrate to manual VBR with 1850 max, and 0 min to begin with. I would set the motion search to highest quality if I wanted to take that much time. I would test to see if checking "output YUV data as" helped it any, and set the audio to 48k and 224. I would let it run and do a clip of about 15 minutes (source position) then cancel. Go check my filesize and video quality. Make needed adjustments in VirtualDubMPEG2 and/or Tmpgenc until I was happy. 15 minutes should be around 135MB or a little less. If the file is too big then lower the max bitrate a little.

I've tested a few of these conversions in the past and if you take your time setting up the filters you can get some decent looking video, considering it's filesize of course.

All of this conversion output quality and filesize stuff is going to depend on the quality of your source, garbage in - garbage out as they say. With a good clean source you might be able to get decent results.

Good luck.

[nirbhayn]

Putting 8hrs of video on 1 DVD is quite a challenge. The average bitrate will need to be about 1000kbps with 224k audio.

If I were going to try such a project I would probably get the dvd folder onto the hdd then load one of the vobfiles into VirtualDubMPEG2. I would then add a deinterlace filter, a resize filter to 352x240, then maybe a sharpening filter w/about 4-6 setting, then frameserve that to Tmpgenc. In Tmpgenc I would load the VideoCD template then the unlock template (or right click on the needed items) and change the bitrate to manual VBR with 1850 max, and 0 min to begin with. I would set the motion search to highest quality if I wanted to take that much time. I would test to see if checking "output YUV data as" helped it any, and set the audio to 48k and 224. I would let it run and do a clip of about 15 minutes (source position) then cancel. Go check my filesize and video quality. Make needed adjustments in VirtualDubMPEG2 and/or Tmpgenc until I was happy. 15 minutes should be around 135MB or a little less. If the file is too big then lower the max bitrate a little.

I've tested a few of these conversions in the past and if you take your time setting up the filters you can get some decent looking video, considering it's filesize of course.

All of this conversion output quality and filesize stuff is going to depend on the quality of your source, garbage in - garbage out as they say. With a good clean source you might be able to get decent results.

Good luck.

thanks for this dude, but i have to do this to quiet alot dvds. so i though maybe split the dvd. Now i would like to know how to do this and preserve the menu and links.

[Baldrick]

vobblanker, https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1572281#1572281

or dvdfab, clonedvd.

[nirbhayn]

THanks ppl. The easiest option was to use clonedvd, then put it through pgcedit to disable buttons