i need help authoring a dvd. or rather a set of dvds

[TehAnonyMOUSE]

i have 6 seasons of a tv show, in avi form. meh quality so the filesize is not huge, its a 30 min cartoon, to give you an idea of size, season one (24 eps) in total is 1.2 GB, season 2 (26 eps): 1.26 GB, season 3 (24 eps): 1.20GB, season 4 (10 eps): 857MB, season 5 (14 eps): 1.18GB, and finally season 6 (19 eps) is only 1.87GB

enough prefix, what i want to do
is put this on as few dual layer dvds as i can, i want the menu to look like this

the play all button is essential
i have NO idea what software to use do accomplish this goal.
thank you for any advice (or questions!)
i am subscribing to this thread, i might be a newb of a user, but not a hit and run user

[hech54]

You need to focus on how much running time of footage can go onto a D/L DVD....megabyte size of an AVI file means nothing.
https://www.videohelp.com/dvd

The menu setup you are looking for is simple....almost any authoring program will do that.

[TehAnonyMOUSE]

quick math tells me i have about 15 hours in total, i will now look at the link you provided, thanks for the super fast reply

[hech54]

How you get from AVI back to DVD can vary widely. Quick and dirty would be something like DVDFlick....or you could re-encode each episode individually to try to minimize the quality loss.

[lordsmurf]

You're putting too much on one menu -- it will be hard to read.

You can also only put 7-8 episodes on a single DVD, at desirable quality
352x480/576 on DVD5.

What cartoon?

[TehAnonyMOUSE]

power puff girls, and im not talking dvd-5 here i have dvd-9's at my disposal. the resolution of the highest quality episode is only 320x240 @ 24fps

[lordsmurf]

You do know this was officially released, right?

$45 new from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001GU04Y0/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thdifa-20&link...SIN=B001GU04Y0

Why bother making a low-quality set?

[TehAnonyMOUSE]

To be honest. Educational purposes. I want to learn how to do this so I can do it with tons more stuff I have

[lordsmurf]

Here's the menu for my homemade set, from my own Cartoon Network S-VHS recordings:
It was created from scanned promo art that I had from Time Warner.
That was made before an official DVD release was announced.



Your proposed menu leaves room for improvement.
And then your low quality source honestly won't make for very good DVDs.