Putting way more than 120 min of video on a DVD

[msi435]

I have many bootleg DVD's that contain 4 hours of video and it can be played in any DVD player. My question is, is it possible for me to do that? Is there some sort of compression program or something? I ran a forum search and a google search and came up empty handed. I hope you guys know what I'm talking about...

[blutach]

DVD Shrink can do it - many guides on this forum - search the FAQ.

Regards

[celtic_druid]

If you want 4 hours then you just need to use a bitrate low enough. 7 hours is about the limit and you would want to use 1/4 resolution.

If your source is a DVD already then DVDShrink would work. Otherwise any MPEG1/2 encoder.

[techreactor]

If you want 4 hours then you just need to use a bitrate low enough. 7 hours is about the limit and you would want to use 1/4 resolution.

If your source is a DVD already then DVDShrink would work. Otherwise any MPEG1/2 encoder.

I have been successful to put over 360 min in one DVD using avisynth but then you cant put AC3 into it. With AC3 around 240 min is more comfortable.

[blutach]

That wouldn't be much good techreactor, since any NTSC DVD requires an AC3 track (somewhere) to be compliant (or if not, an LPCM track).

http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#3.6.2

Regards

[celtic_druid]

I would have thought the opposite. To fit the most video, you want the smallest audio and AC3 will give you better sound quality than mp2. You just don't want to use 5.1 AC3. 2 channel 192k AC3 would be fine, you could go lower if you wanted.

[blutach]

That much time, you'd wanna go MP4 wouldn't you? (Assuming you had an MP4 capable player)

Regards

[drfsupercenter]

I have many bootleg DVD's

Didn't anyone catch this? And to answer your question, normally Nero can fit up to 6 hours on a DVD, just load your video source and it should work... if not, use a program like TMPGEnc DVD Author and make the DVD, and then run it through DVD Shrink to make it fit on a single disc.

Hope that helps!

[blutach]

@drf - I have reviewed those words and they are in accord with rule 6 (in fact, I did this well in advance of your post). Nowhere does he say he downloaded a movie and although the word bootleg connotes illegality, the post is within forum rules.

Please review forum rule 17 regarding reporting posts. This rule is in place to ensure no fights break out.

Regards

[techreactor]

That wouldn't be much good techreactor, since any NTSC DVD requires an AC3 track (somewhere) to be compliant (or if not, an LPCM track).

Thats the only way to put so many minutes in one DVD and those play very well in my SAP, so its fine with me!!!

[techreactor]

I would have thought the opposite. To fit the most video, you want the smallest audio and AC3 will give you better sound quality than mp2. You just don't want to use 5.1 AC3. 2 channel 192k AC3 would be fine, you could go lower if you wanted.

True but still it depends, for eg. I encode my video first(with prior calculation) and see the left space for audio, so that then I see how many bits I can give to the audio, usually 160 kbps mp2 audio downconverted from an AC3 retains the prologic bits and my SAP can then reproduce it quite like surround only.

BTW, I used mp2 and 3 movies in one DVD only for my regional movies, for the English ones I always used AC3 5.1 with only 2 movies onto a DVD.

[Chewy]

One question,

why? (2 movies per dvd)

[techreactor]

One question,

why? (2 movies per dvd)

100 dvd / 2 = 50 dvd's

[Chewy]

100 grade aaa blanks(on sale) 30-35$ and even cheaper at officedepot today.
32.50/2 = $16.25
extra computer time (say 30 minutes per movie) x 100 movies
50 hours divided into $16.25
now deduct lost video quality from equation

[msi435]

I don't mean converting one of the bootleg DVD's down to a regular 4.7; thats really easy... I mean putting on that much video from like 4 hours of Avi's or Mpegs that I have on a regular 4.7 gig DVD. If DVD shrink could do that, can some one point me in the right direction.