how many hours of VCD Quality can a DVD-R & DVD+R hold?

[aznguy]

how many hours of VCD Quality can a DVD-R & DVD+R hold? & any dvd burner out there is capable of using all the formats??? -r +r???

[neomaine]

Well I have don't have a dvd burner but understand that blank media will hold about 4.5gb. If an standard VCD takes @600mb for 1 hour, then my guestimate is that you could get about 7.5(+/-) hours of video in VCD (MPEG1, 1150kps) format on a DVD-/+R.

I have no idea of what the compatibility issues would be.

[alkieman]

On the video side VCD standard MPEG video is within the DVD specifications. It's the audio that isn't. The DVD spec calls for audio sampled at either 48 or 96Khz whereas VCD is strictly 44.1khz. You would need to demux your MPEG files to seperate video and audio streams, then re-encode the audio to 48Khz.

Works fine for me.

[Bud]

With some Templates that are on Kwag's site www.kvcd.net I can get up to 3 movies (2 hr each on one DVD-R), this depends on the movie, a lot of action would give me two on one DVD-R, I use DVDiT to do the work, it will convert the aduio for me. All these are in SVCD format. So just take a look at the templates on the site, see what they can do, if you don't like them you loose nothing but a little time.

Aloha
Bud

[Robbins1940]

According to bitrate calculator- 7 hours, 24 minutes and 39 seconds.

David