Question: Convert AVI->DVD

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360_ferrari

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new to the site, and too lazy to search. here is the problem:
I have several high quality videos that are 350mb in avi format. I would like to play these videos on a television. I purchased a program called "Cucusoft Mpeg/Mov/RMVB/DivX/AVI to DVD/VCD/SVCD Converter Pro" i select the files to be converted into a format that i can put on a dvd disc. It begins converting it into mpeg2 however once finished all video file sizes go from 350 mb to 2.2gb. I have a 4.7gb dvd+R disc meaning i can fit 2 video files on the disc. This would be about 85 minutes of video playback. I thought dvd disc is ale to hold 2:30 hrs of video. Basically i am asking, am i doing the procedure correctly? Are there different formats that compress the file? Thanks for ur help
 
no you probably did it ok, just the software you used set the bitrate too high when it did the conversion

for NTSC standard dvd specs:
720x480 resolution, 29.97fps
vid bitrate 8000kb/s mpeg2
audio 384kb/s in mpeg2 or ac3

anything within those specs will play, just has to be in proper dvd format too which puts nav packets in the stream when the audio and video are muxed together which makes .VOB files or video objects

however, with the video bitrate set at the limit you trade quality for play time, realistically, even with as crappy as mpeg2 video is, a bitrate of 3000 or better is usually plenty unless there's an awful lot of movement in the scene or movie, other codecs like mpeg4 you can go down to 2100 or so @ that res and be fine

so, encode at a lower bitrate and gain some playing time :)

no need to use payware, all this can be done with freeware, and alot of it has been ported from linux........which is a very good choice if your gonna do alot of this kinda thing
 
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