win avi expanding avi files to dvd format

[essaniael]

I have AVI files that I wish to string together to make a DVD that will play on my regular DVD player.

When using Win avi I find that one 65mb AVI movie turns into a 550mb DVD (VOB) file!! AND the quality of the DVD is actually a little poorer than the original AVI! Admittedly this is on highest quality, which I prefer.

This means that I can only get about 8 x 7-minute movies on one 4.5gb DVD. That can't be right, can it?

If I lower the quality to the lowest setting in Win avi, a 65mb AVI encodes to 140mb. This means that I could get around 32 x 7-minute movies on a DVD. That's okay but the quality is not good/pixellated.

Is it possible/is there any software available to encode AVI files to VOB (DVD format) while retaining the same quality as the AVI and around the same size in megabytes?

Would that my DVD could read AVI files!!

[anonymez]

Is it possible/is there any software available to encode AVI files to VOB (DVD format) while retaining the same quality as the AVI and around the same size in megabytes?

no, mpeg4 compresses better than mpeg2. either burn to multiple DVD's or get an mpeg4 capable standalone

[Chewy]

surely there's gotta be better software than (frequent spammer of the forum)
that will keep the quality and get 2 or more hours on a SL dvd.

[admin]

AVI to DVD guides:

http://www.digital-digest.com/articles/category-28.html

[r0lZ]

Anyway, you will always lose some quality when you reencode. At best, you can have almost the same quality than the original, but never better.
You can put around 2 hours of high quality video on a single layer DVD, or even a bit more if you have only a single, light audio track. Of course, the final quality depends of the quality of the source, but also of the encoder.

Also, take into account that the dimension of the image can be anything in an AVI, but on a DVD, it must be a standard video format, often greater than the original AVI size. It's also why you can't compress better.