fit 3 movies to dvd5

[thecrock]

Just a quickie, I want to fit three movies on a DVD5.

What is the max size each file can be to fit on 4.7 gig disc.
I'm thinking of converting with from AVI to MPEG2 with Procoder, then authoring the files for disc with TMPGenc. Of course I will need space for a simple menu.

peace

[guns1inger]

You can only have one video_ts folder per DVD. If you have three separate DVDs then you have to author all the titles into one disc. You can do this in DVD Shrink if you don't want menus, or you can demux the content and author a new disc in an authoring tool of your choice and create whatever menus you want, or you can join them with DVD Remake Pro and get cumbersome new top level menus to work down through.

[jman98]

Your question is wrong and impossible to answer because your supposition behind it is wrong. Yes, you can do this, although no here will advise you to do so because of huge quality loss, but if you want to do it anyway, that's your business. The easiest way to do it would be to use some tool to shrink each movie down to about 1.5 GB each and then you could fit them all on a single layer disc. DVD Shrink might be helpful in letting you re-author such a disc and doing the shrinking. You can only have one VIDEO_TS folder on a DVD, so all your movies have to fit inside that.

[thecrock]

Sorry guys, that first post was wrong so I have edited it. I know there will be quality loss but it is acceptable to me. So how large can three MPEG2 files be to fit on a dvd5 with a menu which i will create using TMPGENC.

peace and thanks for the quick replies.

[jagabo]

There are zillions of posts here about how to put 4, 6, 8, even 20 hours on a DVD. In short:

file size = bitrate * running time

[johns0]

Around 1.39 gb for 3 movies.When you put any movie(s) on a dvdr its the file size that has to be considered,4.17 gb is about the size you want for video+audio before authoring,so to get 3 movies on a dvd you divide 4.17gb by 3.

[jagabo]

It would be better to add up the total running time of all three movies and calculate the average bitrate from that.

It would be best to encode all three movies as one then separate them. This would account for different running times and different levels of compressibility between them.

[zoobie]

I don't understand how the quality is acceptable to you if you haven't done it yet...
considering how cheap quality discs are, I see no reason to do this...yet "they" do

[thecrock]

who are "they" ?

[AlanHK]

Just a quickie, I want to fit three movies on a DVD5.

What is the max size each file can be to fit on 4.7 gig disc.

When I make compilation DVDs, I allow 4.0 GB for the video. That leaves a few hundred MB for audio, menus (I have pretty simple menus, probably use up a couple of MB), and perhaps subtitles (also 2-3 MB).

So in HCEnc I total the running length, set the final size to 4 GB and determine the bitrate.

If you overshoot a bit you can use ReJig to recompress the video by a few percent.