DVD duration limited to two hours?

[vicmortelmans]

Hello,

I've used avi2dvd to create a dvd for a 4-hour film (tv-recording). The process went very smoothly and delivered a 4.5GB iso-image that I wrote on a dvd.
-> When I play this dvd on a dvd-player, it says the film only is 2h1min long and after that point, it stops playing
-> When I play this dvd on my pc (using PowerDVD), it plays beyond 2 hours, but there are no chapters set beyond that place (avi2dvd sets chapters every 5 minutes) and also the progress bar in the PowerDVD gui indicates 100% beyond that place!
-> When I look at the files on the dvd, then I can see the whole film, nicey wrapped up in 5 VOB-files. The 'magic' end point of the film seems to be somewhere in the middle of the third VOB-file.

How to explain this? Is there some metadata on a DVD that tells the duration, and did avi2dvd set this wrong? Or can DVDs just not be any longer than 2hrs???

Thanks for you advice!
Vic

This is the VideoInspector report of the source-file:

Bestandsnaam : D:\publiek\Pope.John.Paul.II.Funeral.Ceremony\16.a vi
Bestandsgrootte : 1,54 Gb.

[Film]
Geldig : Ja [AVI]
Tijdsduur : 04:03:17
Film compleet : Ja

[Video]
Resolutie : 480x480
Codec : XviD MPEG-4 codec
FPS : 29,97
BitRate : 711 Kbps
Kwaliteit : 0,11 b/px

[Audio]
Codec : MPEG 1 or 2 Audio Layer 3 (MP3)
Aantal kanalen : 2
Sample Rate : 48000 Hz
BitRate : 192 Kbps

[LT. Columbo]

i don't know what you did, but it's the bitrate that determines the length of a video to fit on a dvd. i just compiled one the other day with nearly 7 hrs running time (tv captures), so to answer your question, no, 2hrs is not the limit on a dvd. to get a 4hr clip on one dvd it would have to be compressed a lot, resulting in significant quality loss. i'd put it on 2 discs personally

[drfsupercenter]

Use Nero to burn, and you shouldn't have problems.