Fitting more onto single DVDs

[AlanHK]

What "rate"? If you are refering to compression rate it most certainly has an effect on quality. For sure it's not the "only" factor.

Poorly worded, I did mean the rate alone does not determine quality, otherwise it wouldn't matter what method or encoder was used. As the saying goes: "Faster, cheaper, better -- choose any two".

[mats.hogberg]

@Allon't let this disintegrate into a squabble over what's to be considered quality or not.
@OP:There's only one way to fit more (timewise) onto a disk, and that's lowering the bitrate. Lower bitrate means lower quality. Only you can be the judge here, what's acceptable and what's not. Not me, not AlanHK, not LordSmurf or anyone else. Just you.

/Mats

[Webster]

Hi there, Just looking to know how I could burn more onto a single DVD disk. What I need to do is burn the whole season of say Lost and Sopranos onto as few disks as possible but still have good quality.

If i just drag them on with nero it will be about 4 episodes to a 4.7gb disk, while keeping reasonably good quality. I need to do about 5 Tv show seasons so in total im looking at using about 30 disks for that which it going to take ages plus i need to do some movies as well and dont have enough disks.

Is there anyway i can simply compress more onto one disk and still keep good quality??

Thanks Ells

Here is another way to do it.
You can re-encode with TMPGEnc (or the encoder of your choice) to DVD specification using DVD NTSC (or PAL) "low resolution" option = 352x240 @29.97fps (352x288 @ 25fps for PAL).
Using this spec. you can fit upto 4.5 hours per DVD5 disk.
But this method will take sometime to re-encode if you have a slow computer. And you still have to author the re-encoded files.
If you want more episodes per disk, then there is VCD spec. if you don't mind lower quality.